Fonts & Character Sets ⇒ LaTeX Font Style Files

[srengam]

Hi all,

I've downloaded some LaTeX templates for things like CVs, letters etc, and some of them come with other files to download and put in the folder where I save the templates. For example, a CV uses the Helvetica font, but to use it, the "helvetica" LaTeX Style file needs to be put in the folder with the LaTeX Class file for the document.

Is this the case for every file like this (fonts etc)? Or is there a general folder for the whole program where I can put files like this.

When I used Microsoft Word, if I downloaded new fonts, I used to put the font files in the Fonts folder in the Program Files folder, and the font was then available for all Word documents.

Can something similar be done in LaTeX?

Otherwise I'd have to have all my documents in the same folder (an organisation nightmare), or put all the extra files in every single folder, or have a folder just for files like this, and copy and paste them as needed.

How does eveybody else manage this?

Cheers all.

[paul]

You can make it look wherever you want; it'll already be set up to look in various locations...where are the packages that came pre-installed? Trouble is, tex doesn't just look for files on your disk, it looks in a file that tells it where the other files are, so when you install new stuff you have to make it update that file. (You do that by running a program called "texhash" ... but I don't know how you're supposed do that in your GUI environment.)

[srengam]

Solved, many thanks.