[OS X TeX] new texlive folder

[Herbert Schulz]

On Sep 17, 2010, at 1:05 PM, Michael Sharpe wrote:

> I just noticed that there is a new folder named texlive within ~/Library, having a subfolder 2010/texmf-var within which are such items as generated pk files that, based on the experience of previous years, could have been expected to end up in ~/.texlive2010/texmf-var. I could not see anything in the new texmf.cnf that points to such a folder. Can someone point me to some documentation of this new texmf tree? The list of changes to MacTeX mentions nothing that I could see on this.
> 
> Michael
> 

Howdy,

When pdftex, etc., needs to create tfm, etc., files on the fly it does so in those directories. If you also create personal configurations (e.g., using updmap rather than updmap-sys or fmtutil rather than fmtutil-sys) they go there. In previous versions of MacTeX those files were in a hidden directory, e.g., ~/.texlive2009/... for MacTeX-2009, and it was decided to make the structure easily visible for 2010.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)