Re: [MiKTeX] TDS compliant root directory

[Peter H. <pj...@ph...>]

Many thanks to David and Ulrike.  I understand the
situation (slightly) better, & will take the warning
about storing things in MikTeX Tex root directory
to heart.  Your prescription worked perfectly.
Cheers, Peter

On Fri, 24 Jun 2011, David Allsopp wrote:

> Peter Hirschfeld wrote:
> > Dear Ulrike,
> >   It's very kind of you to respond.  At present my style files, etc. are
> > in
> > 
> > C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.8\tex\latex
> 
> Note that C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.8 is the root there - if you pass C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.8\tex\latex then it will be rejected because the layout of the latex folder is not a TDS-compliant root. BUT...
> 
> This is MiKTeX's TeX root - you shouldn't be adding *any* files here *ever* and you certainly shouldn't be trying to add the directory as a local root back into MiKTeX because it's already there. Newer versions of MiKTeX are less forgiving about bad practice than older versions (though adding your own files to MiKTeX's TeX root has *always* been bad practice). Try placing your files in, say, C:\ProgramData\MiKTeX\Local\tex (and add C:\ProgramData\MiKTeX\Local as the root) if it's a root you want available to all users on your computer or somewhere in your C:\Users\you\Documents if the root is just for your own use.
> 
> > and this is precisely the directory that I have always used in the past,
> > and which leads to the error "Not a TDS-compliant root directory", Perhaps
> > I am not understanding your definition of minimum-texmf-substructure.
> 
> The minimum requirement (at least the last time I tested it) is that the directory you add as a local root must contain a folder called "tex".
> 
> 
> David 
> 
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