To share images in multiples documents (institutional logos, signatures,…) The best place for your bib files.In the following I will present two useful ways of using the local texmf tree: See Setting up a local texmf tree for more information. So you can share the texmf in multiple machines.
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For instance, in Mac OSX you can create the texmf directory inside Dropbox (or any other syncing utility) and link it to the system location ln -s ~/Dropbox/texmf $(kpswhich -var-value=TEXMFHOME) The only thing you need to do is to link the TEXMFHOME folder to the new location. You can of course use a custom location for the local texmf folder. The default value of that variable depends on the operating system:įrom now on I will refer simply by texmf to the local texmf folder. If you cant to check the value of TEXMFHOME just open a terminal and type kpsewhich -var-value=TEXMFHOME
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In TeXLive there is an environment variable named TEXMFHOME that points to the local texmf tree. In MiKTeX (Windows) the location of the texmf folder is selected using the MiKTeX configuration utility so the user can put the folder wherever they like.
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The two main ones are TeXLive and MiKTeX. The location of the local texmf tree depends on the TeX distribution you have installed. Finding the local texmf folder in your operating system The local texmf tree have to comply with the TeX Directory Structure (TDS) hierarchy.
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The main advantages of the local texmf tree are: Each TeX distribution allow the use of a local texmf tree, that is, a folder in the user hard drive where user generated TeX related files are to be put (personal packages, bibtex files,…).