[texhax] whoops

[Walt Burkhard]

I should have mentioned that I do successfully set my PATH variable with
.bash_profile.

Walt

On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 3:30 PM, Walt Burkhard <burkhard at cs.ucsd.edu> wrote:

> Hello
> Many thanks for all your efforts with this.   I am still without a real
> solution.    I have temporarily moved files to the folder
> containing my tex file and have it all running as needed in this one
> instance.
>
> I am working within a bash window.  And I have placed the line    "set
> TEXMFHOME=/Users/walt/texmf" followed
> by "export TEXMFHOME" both within .bash_profile in my home directory.
>    Then  the command printenv does not show the
> value for TEXMFHOME   when issuing   printenv    or  printenv TEXMFHOME
>     This shouldn't be the way printenv works
> according to its man page.    The sme is true if I set TEXMFHOME to
> /Users/walt/Library/texmf.     My texmf of course contains
> the files I must  gather via "\input"     In the current state,  \input
> xyz   gathers the contents of xyz from the copy within the tex file folder.
>
> Many thanks again for your assistance.
>
> Walt
>
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 2:30 PM, Reinhard Kotucha <reinhard.kotucha at web.de
> > wrote:
>
>> On 2014-10-27 at 14:38:58 -0500, Dan Luecking wrote:
>>
>>  > On Oct 26 at 00:04:19 CEST, Walt Burkhard wrote:
>>  >
>>  >  >Of course, I could change each "\input" line to contain the
>>  >  >complete file name such as /Users/walt/texmf/xyz  but I would
>>  >  >to just say   \input xyz
>>  >
>>  > TeX (as well as {pdf,xe,lua}[La]TeX, etc,) do not normally
>>  > look directly in texmf directories, but rather in the
>>  > directory texmf/tex/ and all subdirctories below that. So move
>>  > your input file xyz to
>>  >      /Users/walt/texmf/tex/xyz
>>  >
>>  > Alternatively, you can (re)set all TEXINPUTS.* to include the base
>>  > directory. [...]
>>
>> Not a good idea.  Use things as they are documented.  TeX Live is a
>> complex system.  It's too easy to shoot into your own leg.  Whenever
>> you change a TEXINPUTS.* variable I can guarantee you that the
>> confusion outweighs the benefit.
>>
>> The definite guide is
>>
>>   http://tug.org/tds
>>
>> Regards,
>>   Reinhard
>>
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