Re: [MiKTeX] Newbie can't figure out where to put custom files...

[Cornelius C. N. <no...@it...>]

On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, Matthias Brennwald (bwm) wrote:

> Dear all
>
> I am a MiKTeX newbie with previous experience with LaTeX on MacOS X. I
> installed MiKTeX 2.5 on my Windows machine, and it seems to work fine.
>
> However, I can't figure out where to put my bib files etc. On my Mac, I
> have a texmf folder where I put my stuff that needs to be available to
> all my tex documents (my bib files, command definitions, special style
> files, etc.). This texmf folder is located in my home directory:
>
> ~/Library/texmf/
00000000>
> ( where the tilde reflects my home, i.e. /Users/mbrennwa/ )
>
> I did a search on how to do this with MiKTeX, but I found no solution.
> If possible, my custom files should be located in my home directory,
> because:
> 1. this is automatically backed up to our company server.
> 2. I'd like to keep my stuff separate from the stuff that is available
> to other users on the machine.
>
> Can anyone please help me getting started?
>
> Matthias
>
>From the way you desrcribe things, your personal MikTeX files should all 
be in a folder /localtexmf, not /texmf, and in the configuration
wizard you tell MikTeX about that setup.

The main advantage of this is that your personal files won't be 
erased/updatedwhen you update MikteX. So that's the safest way to
proceed, especially when you are working in a department system which 
does your backups for you.

ccn.
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