[tex-live] The adforn package.

Khaled Hosny khaledhosny at eglug.org
Tue Oct 5 22:14:53 CEST 2010


On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 09:57:59PM +0200, Zdenek Wagner wrote:
> 2010/10/5  <cfrees at imapmail.org>:
> >
> > But why does it work if the fd file is in my home texmf directory?
> > (That is, under ~/Library/texmf/tex/latex.) I realise there is no ls-R
> > involved in this case but that doesn't explain (to me, anyway), why tex
> > uses the file without complaint in that case. Does tex use a different
> > search algorithm in that case which manipulates the case of the
> > filename differently? (And, if so, why?!)
> >
> Your home texmf does not use ls-R (it may be there but kpathsea does
> not use it).

Actually if it is there kpathsea will use it, else filesystem will be
searched directly.

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 Khaled Hosny
 Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
 Free font developer


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