tangramtikz installation: something fishy

Marei Peischl tex at mareipeischl.de
Sat Jan 28 08:18:48 CET 2023


Hi Yvon,

On 28.01.23 08:10, Yvon Henel wrote:
> hello
>
> according to what I read when upgrading yesterday
> tangramtikz should be installed on my machine
> but in fact it's nowhere to be seen.
> The CTAN says as much on the package page:
> https://ctan.org/pkg/tangramtikz
>
> There is no doc available with texdoc, no sty file according to 
> kpsewhich and 'find' can't find any thing with a tangram in its name.

Did you try

kpsewhich TangramTikz.sty

  or search independently of case?

Because that's what's working here. And yes it's a bit confusing but the 
naming in TeX Live usually is lowercase only. Simply because it depends 
on the used OS if that makes a difference.

Best,

Marei

>
> I've just tried to reinstall it with
> tlmgr install -reinstall tangramtikz
> from the package repository (the by default repository here)
> https://ctan.tetaneutral.net/systems/texlive/tlnet (verified)
> but to no avail
>
> I know this is not a vital package but nonetheless I can't but feel 
> frustrated not to be able not to use it :)
>
> thank you for all the good work
>
> and (for it's still time (so they say)) best wishes for the new year
>


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