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LaTeX
- Links
- Commands
- Files

LaTeX

Links

Jürgen Weinelt: Der LaTeX - Index
LaTeX forum: Obsolete Packages and Document Classes — Avoid Usage!
StackExchange: How to keep up with packages and know which ones are obsolete?
Norman Walsh: BibTeX
Norman Walsh: MakeIndex

Commands

execute this after installing new classes or style files:¹⁾ texhash
shows the search path in TeX variable TEXMF:²⁾ kpsewhich --expand-var '$TEXMF'
shows the search path where makeindex looks for *.ist files: kpsewhich –show-path ist

Files

~/texmf: private root directory for TeX files (see also output of kpsewhich --expand-var '$TEXMFHOME')
/etc/texmf/texmf.cnf: TeX (Live) and Kpathsea configuration file (a generated file, see man update-texmf)
/etc/tex4ht/tex4ht.env: TeX4ht configuration file

¹⁾

Generates all ls-R files new.

²⁾

Other TeX variables are TEXMFHOME and TEXMFLOCAL.

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