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I hope you can help.

I was a fairly regular user of LaTeX, only for Open University assignments (even attended a TUG course in London!!) but have had about 18 months off and returned with a new platform! Mac!

As a previous Windows user, I had set up everything OK (with a little help) - but am now embarking on this through the world of Apple.

Previously I was used to TeXworks as the editor and had downloaded a tma.sty file from an OU forum which assisted in the layout tremendously... I had adjusted and added things and eventually re-wrote some of the .sty file to reduce the preamble in my OU assignments.

However, porting to Mac has left me somewhat stumped! I have downloaded MacTeX and performed the 'whole' installation. I have booted up TexShop and opened a previously created .tex file.

On opening a previous .tex document it opens fine, the PDF partner opens fine, but the minute I press 'Typeset' I get a ! LaTeX Error: File 'OUTMA.sty' not found.

I know I need to save my .sty file somewhere... but where? I have a TeX foler under Applications that has; Excalibur-4.0.7 [folder] FixMacTeX2013.pkg LaTeXIT LuaTeX-and-XeTeX [folder] TeX Live Utility TeXShop FixMacTeX2014.pkg BibDesk and 3 x .pdf files

And I remember something about refreshing a file name database once this was done (but again, how)?!

I'm sure I will be fine once I have it started... HELP!

If it helps, I am running TeXShop v. 3.41 and have updated everything I can using TeX Live

Thanks in advance - Simon

Simon B
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    Welcome to TeX-sx! Take a look at http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/1137/where-do-i-place-my-own-sty-files-to-make-them-available-to-all-my-tex-files: you are looking for <home>/Library/texmf, where you'll need to make a tex/latex/local folder and put the file in there. No need to hash. – Joseph Wright Sep 10 '14 at 16:35
  • BTW, we must have met if you came to the UK-TUG training in London :-) – Joseph Wright Sep 10 '14 at 16:36
  • Thanks Joseph,On the Mac, I have a [home]/library/TeX/Local/ path that has the following folders; bibtex, dvips, fonts, metapost, tex and web2c. – Simon B Sep 10 '14 at 16:51
  • That's different: you may need to make <home>/Library/texmf as a first step. – Joseph Wright Sep 10 '14 at 16:52
  • Do I therefore create the following; [home]/library/texmf-local/tex[NEW]/latex[NEW]/local[NEW]/OUTMA.sty? – Simon B Sep 10 '14 at 16:53
  • Sorry - the folder said local (but it was a shortcut), when I clicked on it its 'revealed' name was texmf-local – Simon B Sep 10 '14 at 16:54
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    There's a pretty complete answer to this at http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/10252/how-do-i-add-a-sty-file-to-my-mactex-texshop-installation and http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/8357/how-to-have-local-package-override-default-package/8359#8359 (with a script that will create the basic TDS hierarchy). – Adam Maxwell Sep 10 '14 at 17:25
  • Thanks both... all done - had to create a file structure as you said Joseph, the native file structure as created when installed was slightly different. – Simon B Sep 11 '14 at 08:48

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