On Feb 20, 2012, at 10:05 AM, stefano franchi wrote: > On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 8:56 AM, Eric Weir <eew...@bellsouth.net> wrote: >> >>> On Feb 20, 2012, at 8:43 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: >>> >>> Create a text file "mytweaks.tex" and put them there. Save the file in your >>> local TEXMF tree. Then you can simply put \input{mytweaks} to the preamble. >> >> >> I put it in: /usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf. Is that right? > > Actually, that would be the main distribution tree. The local TEXMF > tree would normally be under your user directory. On linux it is > usually ~/texmf, on the mac I suspect it probably is ~/Library/texmf > or perhaps ~/Application Support/texmf. Mac people would know more. > As a general rule, it is always better to put your personal additions > to the tex collection in your lcal tree. That way they will not be > overrun/erased/forgotten when you update texlive.
Thanks, Stefano. I moved it to: ~/library/texmf. Or should it go in: ~/library/texmf/tex/latex? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Weir Decatur, GA eew...@bellsouth.net "A man should be in the world as though he were not in it so that it will be no worse because of his life." - Wendell Berry