General ⇒ Installing tikz-timing package

[mth211]

Hi,

I'm trying to install tikz-timing package in order to make timing diagrams for a project report.

I've successfully manufactured a .sty file but try as I might I can't get it into the correct folder or install it to the directory in any way.

I'm running TexShop on OSX and have tried putting it into the /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/tex directory before running the TeX Live Utility to update everything but still no luck.

Any ideas what I've missed or done wrong?

Thanks

[fatra2]

Hi there,

Since I don't really know MacOsX very well, I might be wrong, but I'll give it a try. From what I know, the X in MacOsX stand for the X window, base on the Linux operating system. Therefore, I will give you the command based on the X window. For that you will need a command utility open.

You said that you copied your .sty files in a tex folder. From there, you need to type, in your command window: texhash

The rest should be automatic. You might need the X utility window, if it does not work with the command window.

Hope this helps. Cheers

[mth211]

Hi,

texhash goes off and does something (after I changed some permissions) but TexShop still won't recognise the new package - all I get is the "File `tikz-timing.sty' not found

Thanks anyway

[martin_scharrer]

As a start you could just put the tikz-timing.sty file into the same directory as your LaTeX document. TeX is looking first there and then in the texmf tree.
On my Ubuntu Linux PC I use the install directory "${TEXMF}/tex/latex/tikz-timing/",
where ${TEXMF} stands either for "/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf/" or "$HOME/texmf".
But it can be totally different on a Mac.

Hopefully tikz-timing will be added to TeXLive really soon, so you can install it using "tlmgr install tikz-timing".

Best Regards,
Martin

[mth211]

Hmm, defiantly getting somewhere - Thanks

As far as I can tell it has now loaded the package as it no longer can't find the file, however, I now get an Undefined control sequence error which disappears when I comment out my usepackage command.

I get \GenericError... #4 \errhelp \@err@...l.1242 which appear just under the console reports that it has called environ.sty

I'm more than a little lost now as the usepackage{tikz-timing} is my last package so I'm not expecting anything else

Any ideas?

Thanks

[martin_scharrer]

Hmm, defiantly getting somewhere - Thanks

I get \GenericError... #4 \errhelp \@err@...l.1242 which appear just under the console reports that it has called environ.sty

I'm more than a little lost now as the usepackage{tikz-timing} is my last package so I'm not expecting anything else

Any ideas?

This error will disappear if you load tikz-timing before the calc package is loaded. Please note that the calc package is quite often used by other packages, so you might use it while not manually load it using \usepackage.
Just try to move the \usepackage{tikz-timing} nearer to the top of you preamble. I will try to fix this issue as soon as possible.

Martin

[mth211]

Ah, fantastic

Thanks