[OS X TeX] Finding macros

[William Slough]

Sorry: "if", not "it!"

On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 1:47 PM William Slough <wslough at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>>
>> telephones:
>> Office    (617)627-3843
>> Dept.    (617)627-3234
>> Dept. fax    (617)627-3966
>> http://www.tufts.edu/~znitecki/
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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