[tex-live] textlive seems to ignore top of home tree
Robin Fairbairns
Robin.Fairbairns at cl.cam.ac.uk
Sat Jul 17 16:04:57 CEST 2010
Victor Ivrii <vivrii at gmail.com> wrote:
> > The above suggests that making LaTeX treat the top (root) of
> > TEXMFHOME in the exact same way it presently treats the directory
> > where the source tex file resides may be as easy to do as to say it
> > (or only slightly less so).
> >
> > Virgil
>
> As a Founding Member of SPUCH (Society for Promotion of Unhealthy
> Computing Habits) I suggest also to include in TeX search path
>
> /, ~, ~/Desktop, ~/.Trash, .., ../.., ~/.Downloads (on MacOSX)
best of all is to keep a ctan miror and to include
/local/ctan/tex-archive// [on this machine, perhaps not on yours]
in the lookup list. this has the useful side-effect of slowing your tex
runs down to an absolute crawl.
robin
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