Questions tagged [texmf]
{texmf} is about questions about the texmf directory, which is the root of TeX directory structure.
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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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initexmf --register-root=/path followed by initexmf --update-fndb on Ubuntu 20.04 terminal on Windows 10 fails to register bib file
I have installed MikTex for Ubuntu 20.04 on a Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 shell:
user@machine:/mnt/c/Users/user/OneDrive/Documents/project$ sudo initexmf --register-root=/mnt/c/Users/user/OneDrive/...
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bootstrapping a kpathsea-like package — finding TEXMF roots
I am in the process of writing a Go-based TeX engine.
(it's working well and I should have a first version based off the tex.web -> Pascal -> Go pipeline (with DVI output) ready shortly. TRIP ...
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Installing nicematrix in texmaker macOS
I asked a question today in Trying to personalize this code for block matrices
, where the suggestion was to use the nicematrix package.
The readme file in https://www.ctan.org/pkg/nicematrix suggests ...
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LaTeX cannot find my local style file even though it is in my local ls-R file
I am attempting to use the revtex4-2.cls style file. It is in my local texmf tree:
(base) :~/myhome/texmf/latex/revtex
$ ls revtex4-2.cls
revtex4-2.cls
My TEXMFHOME environment variable is set:
$...
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ConTeXt fails to work on Fedora Silvervlue (“Fatal format file error; I'm stymied” followed by “unable to change to format path”)
On Fedora Silverblue, running in a toolbox, ConTeXt that previously worked well is now refusing to start.
The first error looks like this:
(Fatal format file error; I'm stymied)mtx-context | fatal ...
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Change tufte-book definition file
I want to make a few changes to the styling of the document-class tufte-book - Change the headings typeface, customize section numbering, bibliography style etc.
As correctly stated in this answer, ...
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If one is using a *.cls that requires a graphic file, where should the auxiliary files be so that it works?
I am using the *.cls files from the "Frontiers in *" Scientific Journals. They have their own classes and templates and examples. I put the *cls files in my texmf directory and did the ...
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How to maintain macros file both locally and on Overleaf
I want to share a .sty file between documents locally.
I push my local changes to Overleaf often. It is crucial that the document can always be compiled on Overleaf with the current version of the ....
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dvipdfmx fails to find pdftex.map / kanjix.map in a fresh install-tl distro
UPD: I added full repro scripts at https://gist.github.com/vadimkantorov/cb638c61afc2fb4526d05e6c4c3b48b6
The warninngs of dvidpfmx:
warning: Couldn't open font map file "pdftex.map".
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Use local TEXMFDIST as repository for install-tl
I downloaded and extracted a full TEXMFDIST tree from ftp://tug.org/texlive/historic/2020/texlive-20200406-texmf.tar.xz (for reproducibility and not depending on net install).
Can I use install-tl for ...
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Help me to install Antiqua Font
I was checking out LaTeX Font Catalogue Antiqua. It says that the package is not part of TeX Live.
So I went to Antiqua on CTAN, I downloaded the archive, extracted it and opened the README file.
And ...
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! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [save size=4000] error
What is save_size bounded by? I used Bakoma tex and I can only change the save_size in TEXMF.INI to a maximum of 7000 and if I go above it the program will crash.
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\documentclass[10pt,letter,...
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How to install and run two side-by-side versions of LaTeX / TeXmF? — MiKTeX 2.1 and MiKTeX 2.9
I am a new user to both LaTeX and this Stack Exchange, so please go easy on me!
I posted this question, "Can the older MiKTeX 2.1 files be used with the newer MiKTeX 2.9 and its TeXworks user ...
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LuaLaTeX-based portable minimal distribution on Windows
I am trying to generate and compile LuaLaTeX programmatically in order to generate a report for some numerical analysis program because the end-users cannot (be expected to) install a LaTeX ...
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Can I safely move the LaTeX doc folder in Linux from the distribution folder to the local texmf/ folder?
Latex's documentation is quite big and I am now running out of space on / .
I have the main Latex installation under / , where I have a folder ../texmf-dist/doc/ which is quite big. I have space ...
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Installation of own *.sty files in TeXstudio?
How do I have to include my own *.sty files in TeXstudio (with default setting, e.g. with PdfLaTeX)?
According to the log file TeXstudio uses TeX Live 2019 .
The *.sty files are organised in folders ...
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TexStudio how to reference custom packages (local texmf tree)?
In my project folder I created the file project/texmf/tex/latex/mymacros.sty. From the command line, I can use export TEXMFHOME=texmf
and then everything works fine, pdflatex recognizes all commands ...
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TeXLive 2019/Linux: kpsewhich can't find symlinked paths under $HOME/texmf
I am trying to figure out if I can switch from Mac back to Linux after a gap of 10+ years. I installed an Ubuntu derivative on the machine, and installed TeXLive 2019 (vanilla) using the equivs ...
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What is the official way to add a new texmf tree to a texlive system on debian/ubuntu?
I have texlive installed on a debian-like host (linux mint) via apt. Now I would like to add a new texmf tree. What is the correct or recommended way to do it? I would like to keep this new texmf tree ...
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Why can't my .sty file be found? I followed the MacTeX instructions
I created a new package as a .sty file. I want to be able to use it in all of my documents.
I followed the instructions on the MacTeX website. I located my Library folder in Macintosh HD using ...
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How does the file name database, in MikTeX, resolve the files it catalogs?
I recently updated my MikTeX distribution (The new interface is really nice by the way, Thank You to the contributors/developers) and I got curious about the path resolution of files when compiling a ...
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Is it possible to “relocate” my ~/texmf/ directory?
My custom sty files are stored in the ~/texmf/ directory. I like to keep the contents of my home directory simple, so I'd like to move ~/texmf/ somewhere else (maybe ~/.texmf/ or ~/.config/texmf/). Is ...
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How to install just the most recent tikzmark package?
How do I install just the most recent version of the tikzmark package?
I tried to install texlive 2018, but it requires glibc 2.14, and my system (CentOS 6) only have glibc 2.12. I then installed the ...
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How change my TEXMFHOME directory config
I use Texlive 2018 on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. I wanted to change my TEXMFHOME directory to hide it. I did it just creating a usertree in "~/.texmf"
I've tried if [ -d ~/.texmf ] ; then export TEXMFHOME=...
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texmf install script doesn't work
I wanted to use the script mentioned here to install a local texmf structure on a Mac. When I click on the script, I get the message "Local texmf folder already exists," but when I click on "Take me ...
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TeX Live 2017 onwards Using $TEXMFAUXTREES are there disadvantages
I mainly use MiKTeX (Windows) as its simpler/lighter for portable use. TeX Live 2017 introduced $TEXMFAUXTREES similar for my usage in MiKTeX to the assignment on the fly of user-roots.
Although my ...
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TexLive lost fonts after a reboot; mktexmf is trying to access a wrong folder
I installed scheme-full of TexLive, and everything was okay until I rebooted my PC. Then all cyrillic fonts went missing, and mktexmf started printing such messages during the build (question marks ...
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Finding and configuring my texmf tree
I'm trying to install a new style file that doesn't come by default with LaTeX. I'm on a Linux Mint computer, and installed LaTeX with a simple
sudo apt install texlive
or something like that, if ...
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How to make pdflatex work with custom TEXMFHOME and TEXMFVAR paths?
Here is my code:
% foo.tex
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontawesome}
\begin{document}
\faAdjust
\end{document}
I have installed basictex on Mac, so compiling the above document would fail ...
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tlmgr user mode tree
This is a very bizarre question, so I'll explain the aetiology.
I'm a longtime \LaTeX andknitr user, which is trying to augment his repertoire by converting to Rmarkdown.
This R package allows the ...
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texmf folder: What is it and what is it good for?
In my home directory (I am a GNU/linux machine) I have a folder named 'texmf' contained two folders named 'tlpkg' and web2c'. I vaguely recall that it was created in connection with some help I once ...
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Path to texmf folder
I am using TeXlive 2017, which is frozen by now. I was missing a package subfigure.sty.
In order to do a manual install,
- I downloaded the package.zip from ctan website,
- I made a directory /home/...
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Problem creating the TEXMFHOME directory
I would like to install a template package and the instructions given by the developer include using the command prompt with the following code
mkdir "$(kpsewhich -var-value TEXMFHOME)/tex/latex/"
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Can't add local texmf directory in latest Miktex
I installed the portable version (from Scoop) of MikTeX 2.9.6615-x64 on Windows 10 (as I did before with previous Miktex versions).
When I try to add a custom texmf directory for local packages in ...
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Empty odt files produced using mk4ht on windows with miktex
I'm looking for some advice to configure my windows system in such a way that I can get mk4ht to compile into an open office document using miktex.
If I create a simple tex file called i.tex
\...
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How to properly configure my tex environment? [closed]
I'm new using latex and I'm a bit lost about how to properly configure my environments so my compiler is able to find my files.
From what I read, I'm supposed to have a TEXINPUTS and TEXMFHOME ...
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TexLive's texmf-local folder storing a lot of files (over 80GB!)
Using a storage scanning application I noticed that on my macOS Sierra a lot of files are being stored in the folder /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local. It seems that in this texmf-local some kind of old ...
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Where do I place my own .sty or .cls files, to make them available to all my .tex files? - empowerment (kpathsea basics)
In order to have a non-TeXlive .sty file available, I followed the recommendations of this question : Where do I place my own .sty or .cls files, to make them available to all my .tex files?.
I did ...
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Directory for storing .sty not where it was supposed to be
I have the same problem as in this question, but since it's too old I guess it is better to open a new question than to wait for clarification in a 7 years old answer.
I have a .sty file with stuff I ...
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Problem with texmf.cnf in ubuntu
where do i have to place the texmf.cnf
because i don't have a directory named
/tex/2016 but four directory :
texmf-config,
texmf-dist,
texmf-var,
texmf-local,
in my ubuntu 16.LTS
thanks for the ...
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Including images in custom cls
Let's say I have a custom class which is well recognized by pdflatex and in the right directory (texmf).
How could I integrate images (logos in headers) to be printed in each document using the ...
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Exact definition of a “local package repository” and exact associated procedures
I spend quite a while now moving my folders containing my .sty files. They are of the kind nicepackage/nicepackage.sty , as specified in the latex wikibook
My operating system is windows 7, and I ...
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Skip user texmf for a particular package
I have a couple of packages (luaotfload being one of them) for which I make use of the bleeding edge development version which has not been uploaded to CTAN yet. Now, this version can live quite ...
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Including resources in “non-installed” class
I am trying to modify an existing class to simplify its usage. Basically I would just like the user to copy a folder which contains the .cls file and some resources (a png file with a logo, some fonts ...
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changing location of texmf folder for use across multiple computers (OS X / Apple)
I'm currently running Os X 10.11.6 (El Capitan) and, from what I understand, one is supposed to create the texmf folder under the user's Library; however, I was wondering if it is possible to change ...
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Where in local TEXMF tree should I put a file that I regularly `\input`
I have a chunk of TeX code, I use to setup some styles for drawing block diagrams in Tikz.
Since i draw a fair few block diagrams, I thought I would stop copy-pasting it around and put it in a ...
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ConTeXt: what is ~/texmf folder and what is its relation with /usr/share/texmf
First of all, I am a complete noob in TeX/LaTeX/ConTeXt/WhaTeVeR, so please be gentle.
OK so I installed ConTeXt (version 2013.84.svn30044-18.5) on my OpenSuSE 42.1 using the official repository, and ...
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MiKTeX and initexmf - Change user root priority without using settings GUI
When running MiKTeX as non-admin, packages get automatically installed in AppData; sometimes, however, you want to manually install a version of a package in another root folder without removing the ...
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MacTeX does not find my local .sty files on El Capitan
I have just installed MacTex under El Capitan and put my latex .sty files in the ~/Library/texmf/tex/latex folder, as suggested here, but MacTex still does not find them. What can I do?
