LaTeX setup for mac

If you are installing LaTeX on a mac, and want to use department-specific styles and fonts, follow these steps:

• Install the latest TeXLive available through the [https://www.tug.org/mactex/|MacTeX distribution].

• Copy /opt/texmf-local from one of the department computers to the same location on the mac.

• Run kpsewhich texmf.cnf to see where your tex texmf.cnf file is, and edit it to look something like:

TEXMFVAR = /usr/local/texlive/2014/texmf-var
TEXMFSYSVAR = $TEXMFVAR
TEXMFLOCAL = /opt/texmf-local
TEXMFCONFIG = $TEXMFSYSCONFIG
openout_any = r
openin_any = a
main_memory = 5000000

Change the first line (depends on where TeXLive is installed). Note that you have to be SU to save changes to the file.

• Run, as SU:

mktexlsr
updmap-sys

Done.