Re: texlive document source files

[Tyler Smith <tyler.smith@mail.mcgill.ca>]

On 2007-04-25, Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es> wrote:
>
> I was always too lazy to figure out the intricacies of latex's path
> searches. For any given type of file I just do something like this 
>
> $ locate -br '.*\.bst$' | sed 's|/bst/.*|/bst/|' | sort -u
> /usr/share/texmf-texlive/bibtex/bst/
> /usr/share/texmf/bibtex/bst/
>
> and then I set up the same relative path in my ~/texmf. That has always
> worked for me so far.
>

Thanks, that's a great tip! I didn't know about locate before, so that
will be very handy. Incidentally, it turns out my installation doesn't
have a /usr/share/texmf/bibtex directory, only the texmf-texlive
version.

Cheers,

Tyler