Questions tagged [kpathsea]

kpathsea is the path searching library for texlive

kpathsea is a central part of texlive, providing search mechanisms for files used by tex, latex, etc.

Use this tag for specific questions about search paths under texlive.

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What is kpsetool, kpsexpand, and kpsepath?

When trying to manage my on LaTeX distribution, I frequently come across the commands kpsetool, kpsexpand, and kpsepath. They seem to have a similar purpose. What is it?
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How does LaTeX resolve path to .sty files?

I use TeX Live (on a Debian system), and I'm having a new issue with style files. For many years, I've used a style file I've written called handout.sty; it's in my ~/texmf/tex directory, and I've always used \usepackage{handout} successfully. I…
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Fonts not found

As I told in a previous question, I'm migrating from Scientific Linux 6.2 to Slackware Linux 15.0. I anticipated some problems but there are some I'm unable to solve myself. My present question concerns some fonts TeX cannot find. The first are…
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Finding XML files with kpsewhich

What is the right way to store XML or DTD files in a texmf tree and to configure my system so that kpsewhich will be able to find them? Running kpsewhich -help-formats shows nothing about xml files, and the "other text files" option shows a path…
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