[OS X TeX] Finding macros

[William Slough]

Out of curiosity, it these .sty files, with the same folder organization,
were to be stored directly on your computer and not Dropbox, would you get
the same behavior?

--Bill Slough

On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 12:35 PM Nitecki, Zbigniew H. <
Zbigniew.Nitecki at tufts.edu> wrote:

> Doesn’t work.  I had already saved the file there, but I took it out of
> MyMacros, put it on my desktop, then copied the contents (control A control
> C) into a blank file in TeXShop, chose sty in the save dialogue—changing
> the name to Math135HWMacros just to make sure my commands didn’t confuse it
> with the other, and put it in MyMacros.  Still get the error “can’t find
> Math135HWMacros” (even though all the other .sty files in that folder do
> get accessed when called from a .tex file in TeXShop.
>
> Zbigniew Nitecki
> Department of Mathematics
> Tufts University
> Medford, MA 02155
>
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>
>
>
> On Aug 12, 2019, at 13:18, Murray Eisenberg <murrayeisenberg at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> When you first save the file in TeXShop, at the bottom of the Save dialog
> window, there’s a field “File Format”. Just select “sty" there instead of
> the default “TeX file”.
>
> So of course now that you’ve already saved the file as something.sty.tex,
> open it, copy and past into a blank source window, then do the above.
>
> On 12 Aug2019, at 12:56 PM, Nitecki, Zbigniew H. <
> Zbigniew.Nitecki at tufts.edu> wrote:
>
> This is a system (OS10.14.6) question, rather than a TeX question per se.
>
> I have been generating a set of TeXed homework assignments for a course
> (Math 135), trying to make it stand-alone so that others teaching the
> course could use my .tex files.  I habitually use a lot of macros, and have
> several extensive files of user-defined macros.  So far, I have been
> copying individual
> macro definitions into the .tex file for each assignment, but this has
> proliferated, and I have finally decided to create a dedicated macro file
> for this purpose (to include whenever I distribute the .tex files for these
> assignments), called 135HWMacros.sty.  I created this by copying the list
> of \newcommands from the latest assignment into a new file in TeXShop.
> When I tried to save it as 135HWMacros.sty, I was not allowed to (I was
> told to use 135HWMacros.sty.tex).  Now, I have a folder in Dropbox called
> Macros, with a subfolder called MyMacros, where I keep all of my older
> self-defined macro files.Things are configured so that when I compile a
> .tex file this folder (and subfolder) is searched first for macros.  When I
> saved my new file there as  135HWMacros.sty.tex, I would get an error
> saying “can’t find file 135HWMacros.sty.  Of course—in fact, the icon for
> that file was different from those of the other style files there.  So I
> renamed it 135HWMacros.sty (having saved it there earlier with the longer
> filename.)  But now I still get the same error message.  What should I do
> (or have done) differently?
>
> Zbigniew Nitecki
> Department of Mathematics
> Tufts University
> Medford, MA 02155
>
> telephones:
> Office    (617)627-3843
> Dept.    (617)627-3234
> Dept. fax    (617)627-3966
> http://www.tufts.edu/~znitecki/
>
>
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