Re: Newbie questions

["Mojca Miklavec" <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com>]

On 6/24/06, Thomas Moore wrote:

> 2.  I would like the math environment to be as close to the LaTeX AMS
> environment as possible. I have figured out how to download the t-
> amsl module and can successfully invoke it as long as the t-amsl.tex
> file is in the same folder as my document files. But how do I install
> it permanently so that I can invoke it in all my documents? I was
> unable to find instructions in the ConTexT garden for this, and what
> I could find on the archives was not helpful (something about
> "running mktexlsr" and/or "texhash" that I have don't know how to do
> in OS X, and would be afraid to do without instructions anyway for
> fear of screwing up my TeX distribution).


You can put the file to any location where TeX can find it. For
example if the file context.tex is located under
    [somepath]/texmf[-local]/tex/context/base/context.tex
you might put the file to
    [somepath]/texmf[-local]/tex/context/third/t-amsl.tex
(but basically any location under "texmf" would do).

... and then run mktexlsr without any additinal arguments.

You cannot screw up your TeX distribution by running mktexlsr or
texhash: they're only meant to refresh the database (to know which
file is where). Either of the commands should be present on your
distribution I believe (most probably mktxlsr).

Mojca