martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > having tried LaTeX classes and style files, i am now resorting to > simple \includes for letters, invoices and whatever; classes and style > files are nice, but too complicated for my use
Classes are not really complicated. In fact, you can make a kind of sub-class that inherits everyting from a general class and adds some customization. If you wish, I can send you my simple class that I use to make letters. On the other hand, inclusion of files with customization commands is simple too. > now, i have a number such "templates" and i'd like to keep them all in > one place, telling LaTeX of this include location. how? The file /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf determines the places where TeX looks for files. This file is well documented. For instance, my texmf.cnf contains lines like: HOMETEXMF = $HOME/texmf TEXMF = {!!$HOMETEXMF,!!$TEXMFLOCAL,!!$TEXMFMAIN} TEXINPUTS.latex = .;$TEXMF/tex/{latex,generic,}// These lines instruct Tex to look in my directory /home/paul/texmf/latex and subdirectories of this directory, to find LaTeX files. Actually, TeX does not search directly in the directories, but in lists of the files in those directories. When you put files in one of the directories, you have to update the file lists with the command mktexlsr Greet Paul Huygen