[texhax] Adding packages to mactex (TeXshop)

[Uwe Lück]

I wondered why it is not in TeXLive. Answer ...

At 16:03 26.03.09, Lars Madsen wrote:
>Christine Largouët wrote:
> > However I have a problem to insert a new package "floatfig" to define
> > floating figures
> >
> > I make a new directory in /usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/latex
> > call "floatfig" and insert the floatfig.sty inside.
> > This directory or this file in not find during the compilation of my
> > document.
> > Should I inform Txshop that a new package is available but where ??
>
>you probably forgot at update the file database, try running
>
>texhash
>
>(perhaps sudo texhash to run it as admin)
>
>BTW: you might want to update your LaTeX dist using tlmgr (tex live
>manager), usually you can get a gfx version using
>
>tlmgr --gui

At 15:49 26.03.09, Axel E. Retif wrote:
>Christine Largouët wrote:
> > I make a new directory in /usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/latex
> > call "floatfig" and insert the floatfig.sty inside.
>
>No, don't do that ---don't put anything inside /usr/local/texlive/
>2008... Your local additions should go in /usr/local/texlive/texmf-
>local/ (that is, for a LaTeX package, /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/
>tex/latex), and you have to run in Terminal
>
>sudo texhash
>
>for (La)TeX to recognize your addition. Also, you can put it in
>
>~/Library/texmf/tex/latex (~/Library means the Library directory of
>your Home). You don't have to run texhash for anything you put here.
>
>I don't know the floatfig package, but isn't it old?

And I wondered why it is not in TeXLive. Answer seems to be (cf. 
ctan.tug.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/bytopic.html and ctan.tug.org/pkg):

floatfig is obsolete, doesn't work with LaTeX2e, superseded by floatflt, 
which *is* in TeXLive. There are also wrapfig and picinpar (picins seems to 
be missing as well).

HTH -- Uwe.