@PauloCereda There's something wrong in the path for texmf-local: do you see mktexlsr is trying to update /usr/share/texlive/texmf-local///ls-R, which is surely wrong.
@PauloCereda Can you show the output of kpsewhich -var-value TEXMFLOCAL?
@PauloCereda You're using the wrong mktexlsr: it's the one from Fedora, not the one in the vanilla TeX Live
I've got a meta question: Is it good practice to answer old questions? (e.g. 2-3 months) and after what time, would you say it doesn't make sense to answer such questions anymore?
Wow terrible english :O
Because i've just answered a question where i've noticed later that it was from november 2015
@MarekKaski that's not really a very focussed question, it's like saying how do you write a tex document or hw do you write ia lua program. There are lots of ways depending what you want to convert, change the input tokens, change the typeset nodes change the hyphenation ...
@Octopus the theory behind the stack exchange network mechanics is that the original person who asked the question is rather unimportant, it's building up an encyclopedic collection of useful facts, so the fact that the original person is perhaps long gone and no longer needs the answer isn't important, if people may still search for a question and land there it is better to have a current answer than an old one that no longer applies so well
@Octopus several answers on site, latex companion is the standard reference although much of it is a review of packages (as they were 10 years ago) it also has chapters on the program aspects for packages added at latex2e. Otherwise texdoc source2e will show you the documented sources of latex which is always a fun read. or just use tex every day for 30 years until you get the hang of it... for tex programing the texbook or for a free alternative, tex-by-topic
@DavidCarlisle @egreg Hehe :) Just what happens when experts meet :). I've been using LaTex for now maybe 1.5 years, i'm working on getting 30 years but it'll take a while. Anyways i'll try the LaTeX Companion and texdoc source2e. "Always fun to read" - Yes, definitely i enjoyed reading 1500 pages TikZ Manual
So i just got bored, therefore i'll tune in for some more literature
You should read the TeXBook.
It doesn't cover everything (as you say, it doesn't cover e-TeX for example). But if you have digested the the TeXBook then you can pick up the rest as needed. The e-tex manual can be skimmed over in a few minutes if you know the basics, xetex similarly. Not that you...
@DavidCarlisle Thank you! I've just seen that the LaTeX Companion is only 50 .- Fr. A thousand page book for that is astonishing! I'll order it tomorrow or today. But now i need to go
@PauloCereda In my instructions for installing TeX Live, I suggest these additions to .bashrc
# Addition for TeX Live
function sutlmgr () {
if [[ -z "$@" ]]
then
sudo /opt/texbin/tlmgr -gui
else
sudo /opt/texbin/tlmgr "$@"
fi
}
alias mktexlsr='sudo /opt/texbin/mktexlsr'
alias updmap-sys='sudo /opt/texbin/updmap-sys'
alias fmtutil-sys='sudo /opt/texbin/fmtutil-sys'
@DavidCarlisle Ok. In this case I was just using a loop to test some macros I wrote, and I couldn't understand why the starred ones did nothing. Thanks.
@AlanMunn er yes perhaps but the star form is very mch a top level interface thing, if you are building the command up you may as well just use \foo@star rather than generate thing*
... but if you are testing a top level interface generating that is probably the thing to do:-)
