Questions tagged [texmf]
{texmf} is about questions about the texmf directory, which is the root of TeX directory structure.
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MikTeX vs TeXLive for handling various personal style class files texmf directories
In MikTeX (hence I am under Windows) in the console you have the possibility to add various locations (all obeying to the proper texmf tree) for you personal style, class etc files. I got rid from ...
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usepackage loads .sty file from texmf-dist instead of texmfhome
I have customs versions of packages tabularray.sty and piton.sty in my local texmf : $ kpsewhich -a tabularray.sty /home/yann/texmf/tex/latex/chato/tabularray.sty /opt/yann/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/...
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Can't find font in local texmf folder
I have a local texmf tree in my repository for my custom packages. I added this tree to the TEXMFLOCAL variable and I am able to use the packages I placed there. Now, I am also interested in placing a ...
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Persistent Installation Failure of TeX Live on Windows 11
so I'm having a recurring issue while trying to install TeX Live on my Windows 11 system and am hoping to find some assistance here. A similar issue was had by 'TeX Live Installation Failure on ...
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TEXINPUTS, TEXMF and other variables
While investigating some things about TeX, I stumbled across TEXINPUTS, which one can use to tell (La/pdf/..?)TeX where to find it's files. I decided to look into it a bit closer and learned about ...
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Texdoc can't find some packages
I'm trying to open some manuals with texdoc. Some of them texdoc can find and open, but others, even if installed, are invisible to texdoc. $ locate soul.pdf /usr/share/doc/texlive-doc/generic/soul/...
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How can I make dvisvgm calling kpathsea find the texmf.cnf file in a nonstandard directory?
dvisvgm calling kpathsea cannot find the texmf.cnf file, but this does exist, though at a presumably nonstandard directory location. What to do to let the texmf.cnf file be located? To convert a .dvi ...
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LaTex font not found after upgrading linuxmint
I can't get working the font "Comicneue" with LaTex since I upgraded my linuxmint version. All was working fine before the upgrade. I have the package Comicneue I downloaded from CTAN in ~/...
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Where in an installed TeXLive texmf tree is mathtrip?
Where in an installed TeXLive 2022 texmf tree does one find the mathtrip package? I was unsuccessful in locating it through either a (macOS) search nor texdoc mathtrip. When I open the pdf from The ...
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kpsewhich can't find symlinked paths under $TEXMFHOME/tex/lualatex/ (but finds those under $TEXMFHOME/tex/latex/)
(This is a kind of followup of the nice Joseph's suggestion about Strategies for providing packages as version control repositories.) From kpsewhich point of view, symbolic links from: $TEXMFHOME/tex/...
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On a TeXlive 2022 installation for Linux, where do I put user-defined files?
I am running TeXLive 2022 on Manjaro Linux. I intend to standardize the fonts invoked as Noto Serif and have set up a file called NotoSerif.fontspec in $HOME/texmf with the following contents: \...
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EPS inclusion from texmf-tree not working
Introduction I have a project-specific texmf tree, which I use for package development, which is called texmf-project. This tree is correctly registered as an auxtree in texlive on debian 11. In my ...
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Texstudio and "Package Babel Error"
I have updated Texstudio on my Mac to Version 4.2.1. Running the following tex-file brings me two errors. \documentclass[11pt,a4paper]{article} \usepackage[ngerman]{babel} \usepackage{eurosym} \...
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How can I customize the directory of my own style files for latex on MAC-OS? [duplicate]
I couldn't find any satisfying solution to this problem I had for years so I finally decided to ask it myself. I want to create a folder outside the usual latex directories (e.g. /Users/myname/Dropbox/...
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LuaLaTeX require path -- only absolute paths work [closed]
I would like to use external packages for LuaLaTeX scripting (eg.penlight). I often test my scripts with texlua command without issues. However, I noticed when I compile the document with the lualatex ...
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