[tex-live] TEXMFHOME when using install-tl on a Mac
Mojca Miklavec
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Wed Oct 5 23:35:39 CEST 2011
On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 22:23, Maxwell, Adam R wrote:
> On Oct 5, 2011, at 13:11, Reinhard Kotucha wrote:
>
>> But if you install TeX Live, it doesn't matter where MacTeX looks for
>> files. Or did I misunderstand something?
>
> Correct, for TeX itself. However, it matters with respect to Alan's
> remark that "[most] advice about local additions for Mac users will
> point people to ~/Library/texmf."
And also because people might have both pure TeX Live and MacTeX
installed at the same time ;)
They probably want to use the same location for TEXMFHOME.
Mojca
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