<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><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 2, 2021, at 12:03, Nitecki, Zbigniew H. <<a href="mailto:Zbigniew.Nitecki@tufts.edu" class="">Zbigniew.Nitecki@tufts.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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<div class="">I realized I (also?) have a copy of the texmf file on Dropbox and that has all the files. </div>
<div class="">It appears that this is the up-to-date version (I checked one file, and the latest modification was last week). </div>
<div class="">But I am not sure how to instruct the TeXShop engine to use those files.</div>
<div class="">When I search for them in Finder, I go Dropbox->texmf->tex->latex->MyMacros and in there are the relevant files.</div>
<div class="">I need a TeX/Mac-for-Idiots bit of advice.</div>
<div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>I am assuming that the path in Dropbox is accurate, that is, that texmf is right below the Dropbox directory. So, what I would do is link DropBox to ~/Library/texmf as follows: open Terminal.app and then run the following commands:</div><div><br class=""></div><div><font face="Menlo" style="font-size: 12px;" class="">cd ~/Library</font></div><div><font face="Menlo" style="font-size: 12px;" class="">rm texmf</font></div><div><font face="Menlo" style="font-size: 12px;" class="">ln -s ~/Dropbox/texmf .</font></div><div><br class=""></div><div>(Note the dot in the last line!) The first line changes to the ~/Library directory. The tilde is a shorthand for your home, typically /Users/<yourusername>. The second line removes the alias. The third does the linking. </div><div><br class=""></div><div>Then your files in the texmf subtree should be available. What this does is just linking, so the actual files will still be on DropBox. </div><div><br class=""></div><div>Hope this helps,</div><div><br class=""></div><div>—Ettore</div><div><br class=""></div><div><div class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: -webkit-auto; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: -webkit-auto; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: -webkit-auto; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><font face="Osaka" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class="">Ettore Aldrovandi</span></font></div><div class=""><font face="Osaka" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class="">Department of Mathematics, Florida State University</span></font></div><div class=""><font face="Osaka" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class="">1017 Academic Way * <a href="http://www.math.fsu.edu/~ealdrov" class="">http://www.math.fsu.edu/~ealdrov</a></span></font></div><div class=""><font face="Osaka" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class="">Tallahassee, FL 32306-4510, USA * * aldrovandi at math dot fsu dot edu</span></font></div><div class=""><font face="Osaka" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>