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So, you're using Latex to compile a paper, article, or book. If you have any type of table of contents, index, or bibliography, you've probably noticed that you have to run latex two (or sometimes 3) times to generate the final document. In addition, you probably have to run a conversion program to [...]
I’ve been finishing up the final formatting for my thesis this last week at Utah State University. Latex is great when you are provided a style file beforehand. If you have to modify or create your own style however, beware. That is a more time consuming process. I haven’t yet switched [...]
I recently had need to put a .bst file in my LaTeX search path. This turned out to be difficult to search for. I found a lot of pages and style files telling users to put such and such file in their LaTeX search path. I began to wonder if I was the only LaTeX user on earth who had no idea what the LaTeX search path was.
With some effort I found that the global path's root is usually something like /usr/share/texmf. I'm not interested in putting it in the global path though. We have home directories for a reason here.
Finally I found the answer, with some creative googling. The answer depends on your distribution/OS. Apparently on Debian it's ~/.texmf-config (untested). The MacTeX distribution (which I have installed) looks in ~/Library/texmf. The macports build (don't ask) looks in ~/texmf, which I learned only by trial and error. My guess is that latter answer is the answer if you build by yourself, and so might be a good initial guess no matter what the distribution.
So, I did this:
mkdir -p ~/Library/texmf/bibtex/bst
ln -s ~/Library/texmf ~/texmf
mv acm-annotated.bst ~/texmf/bibtex/bst
I write a lot of things in LaTeX and always get annoyed when aspell complains about my LaTeX tags being mispelled. Imagine my surprise when I discovered that aspell has a TeX mode so that it will ignore the tags. 'aspell -c -t <myfile.tex>' invokes the proper magic.
