Hello all:
First let me say that I think the Fink group has its act together in
an unusually fine way. I spent a couple of days downloading and
compiling stuff from the fink distribution onto a Jaguar iBook, and
it's all worked perfectly so far. I'm quite impressed and I hope
whoever you all are get more and better pats on the back than I can
provide here.
But there is one thorn in my rosebush. For some reason, my LaTeX
program can't handle include statements that reference files anywhere
but in a sub-directory of where the program is running. For example,
in my file a.tex, there is a statement like this:
\include{../b/b}
This should look for the file b.tex in the directory b at the same
level of directory hierarchy as the current directory. But this gets
an error:
I can't write on file ../b/b.aux
I loosened up all the relevant permissions, but to no avail. And I
tried absolute pathnames, but also without helping. The only thing
that worked was creating a link to the b directory in the same
directory that houses the a.tex file (and changing the \include
statement) and then it all works fine.
This feels like a TeX question, but I've been using TeX for many years
now, and this is a new one on me, so I thought I'd start here. The
files in question are about eight years old, and have been used on
several different TeX installations as is.
I am using the tetex distribution from fink, but I didn't see the
bundle-tetex package, so installed tetex-base, tetec-macosx and
tetex-texmf individually. The Mac OSX is version 10.2, and I believe
all the non-Mac unix software I'm using is from fink. (I had a bad
experience with installing stuff from the GNU-Darwin distribution, but
I'm pretty sure I removed it all. At any rate, the /sw/bin directory
is first in my $PATH.)
Many thanks,
-tom sgouros
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