[tex-live] textlive seems to ignore top of home tree

Akira Kakuto kakuto at fuk.kindai.ac.jp
Mon Jul 19 13:15:48 CEST 2010


> I would strongly advocate that the system default behaviour (subject to overruling by the administrator) should be that it finds by default either 
> TEXMFHOME/tex/myclass.cls OR 
> TEXMFHOME/myclass.cls

We can use TEXMFHOME for various kinds of files, fontmap files, font
encoding files, TeX macros, configuration files, ...
I strongly recommend to follow the TDS:
Please put LaTeX macros under $TEXMFHOME/tex/latex, and
don't use the top directory for them.

Thanks,
Akira



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