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.
Questions tagged [kpathsea]
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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?
Rubem Pacelli
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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…
Janet
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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…
Elio Fabri
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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…
Vincent Beffara
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