<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jun 7, 2018, at 10:50, Herbert Schulz <<a href="mailto:herbs@wideopenwest.com" class="">herbs@wideopenwest.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div style="" class=""><blockquote type="cite" style="font-family: AgmenaPro-Regular; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class="">On Jun 7, 2018, at 8:00 AM, M. Tamer Özsu <<a href="mailto:ozsut@mac.com" class="">ozsut@mac.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">Following Herb’s suggestion, here is my setup for those types of files that enables me to use them across machines.<br class=""><br class="">- I have a master references file (references.bib) that I keep in ~/Library/texmf/bibtex/bib<br class="">- I have a bunch of personal style files that I keep in ~/Library/texmf/tex/latex<br class="">- I have a symbolic link to ~/Library/texmf that I keep in Dropbox folder<br class=""><br class="">Everything syncs properly and latex finds them in place. The trick is to keep these files in ~/Library/texmf and put a symbolic link in Dropbox. Note that you have to do the symbolic link on every machine.<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></blockquote><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: AgmenaPro-Regular; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">Howdy,</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: AgmenaPro-Regular; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: AgmenaPro-Regular; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: AgmenaPro-Regular; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">I'm a bit surprised that you link ~/Library/texmf into your Dropbox. I would have thought it should be the other way around. I don't understand how that works on multiple systems.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: AgmenaPro-Regular; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: AgmenaPro-Regular; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: AgmenaPro-Regular; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">I have folder of source files (not in ~/Library/texmf) I copied to my Dropbox folder which I update when any of those files change. On other systems I have a symblic link of the Dropbox folder to my documents folder. So when I update the folder on Dropbox on that source system the other systems automatically update.</span><br class=""></div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>Isn’t it the case that one should have a folder texmf in Dropbox and link _to_ it from each machine? That is, on each machine ~/Library/texmf is a symlink to ~/Dropbox/texmf as in </div><div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(221, 213, 0); background-color: rgba(12, 38, 192, 0.890196);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;" class="">ls -l Library/texmf</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(221, 213, 0); background-color: rgba(12, 38, 192, 0.890196);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;" class="">lrwxr-xr-x […] Library/texmf@ -> /Users/<username>/Dropbox/texmf</span></div></div><div>?</div><div><br class=""></div><div>—Ettore</div><div><br class=""></div></body></html>