Paul is right. You did ask, though, if there was a standard location for the directory in Windows. I believe there is, but it's different between xp and vista/w7. Mine on Windows 7 is: C:\Users\Jacob\AppData\Roaming\MiKTeX\2.8\... I'm not on my xp machine right now, but it's something like C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\MikTeX\2.8\...
MikTeX created those directories for local settings when I originally installed it. You can, of course set up a custom location via the MikTeX "settings" interface, which you have to use anyway to run "Refresh FNDB" as Paul explained. I hope this adds a bit of information. Jacob On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 6:26 AM, Paul A. Rubin <ru...@msu.edu> wrote: > On 9/14/2010 7:41 PM, Maria Gouskova wrote: > > >> I should add that they all used MikTeX, and we tried putting texmf in >> C:\ and also in the Program Files folder (I think basically as >> C:\Program Files\texmf). >> >> What confuses me is that in Mac OS, LyX finds all the stuff inside the >> texmf folder automaticallly after reconfiguring. Does this happen in >> Windows? If not, is there something that needs to be done inside LyX >> to help it find the correct texmf path? I am sure we missed something >> really obvious. >> >> > If they are using MiKTeX: > > 1. They can run the MiKTeX "Settings" application (from the Start menu) > and go to the "Roots" tab. That lists the directories on the search path > MiKTeX uses. They can create their local texmf folder anywhere they want, > then just add it to that tab (Add... button) and move it up to the top of > the search chain. > > 2. After adding anything to their local texmf directory, they should run > the Settings application, and on the General tab click "Refresh FNDB" (which > runs texhash to update the LaTeX file databases). > > /Paul > >
