[OS X TeX] Re: MacOSX-TeX Digest, Vol 63, Issue 7 hidden files

[Leslie Morland (MTH)]

Many thanks Herb. I use Mountain Lion and TeXLive 2012. Standard article.cls etc are there, but not the extra Journal .sty files which I will have to download again and put in .../base/ . My explorations of 'tex' did not find this directory. Is there a TeX Live document which sets out the directory structure and contents?

Still cannot see where .bib files can be placed to be found generally, other than in each current directory?

I am curious to know where wide open west is located?

Leslie
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> From: "Leslie Morland (MTH)" <L.Morland at uea.ac.uk>
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> Sorry, did not note earlier advice about hidden files, and after a hard disk replacement on my iMac, and only a partial
> recovery from back-up disk, I have found that extra sty, bst, and cls files I added to "texmf" are missing or misplaced.
> Find does not recognise any standards (e.g.: article.sty), and my terminal explorations have found nothing. I need to know how to see them, and add my extras again, and understand where I can put these and bib file folders to always be seen by TexShop. That is, where is texmf?
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> Leslie (l.morland at uea.ac.uk)
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> Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 09:35:48 -0600
> From: Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com>
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> On Jan 14, 2013, at 9:26 AM, "Leslie Morland (MTH)" <L.Morland at uea.ac.uk> wrote:
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>> Sorry, did not note earlier advice about hidden files, and after a hard disk replacement on my iMac, and only a partial
>> recovery from back-up disk, I have found that extra sty, bst, and cls files I added to "texmf" are missing or misplaced.
>> Find does not recognise any standards (e.g.: article.sty), and my terminal explorations have found nothing. I need to know how to see them, and add my extras again, and understand where I can put these and bib file folders to always be seen by TexShop. That is, where is texmf?
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>> Leslie (l.morland at uea.ac.uk)
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> Howdy,
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> What version of the OS are you using? If you are using Lion or Mountain Lion the Library folder in your HOME folder (known as ~/Library) is hidden by default. To open it hold down the Option key while you click on the Go Menu in Finder and the Library item will show.
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> If you installed MacTeX the main TeX distribution (TeX Live 2012 presently) is located at /usr/local/texlive/2012 and /usr is hidden in the Finder. But I don't know why (pdf)latex is not finding article.cls. What does
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> kpsewhich article.cls
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> executed in Terminal return? It should return
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> /usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/article.cls
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> if all is well.
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> Can you supply us with a minimal but compilable .tex file that shows the problem along with the .log file it produces on your system?
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> Good Luck,
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> Herb Schulz
> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
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