Lucy,
the LaTeX bundle for TM is something to help you working with LaTeX, however it does NOT free you from all "administrative work" in LaTeX you need to do. Therefore, no, the bundle does NOT offer any support for adding new packages. I don't know about all the other editors that have some kind of LaTeX support (highlighting, commands...) but don't think that any of them offers you a frontend to add packages.
But apart from that it shouldn't be that hard to install a LaTeX package. As you already said, there is a texlive installation on your mac and you found out the correct path. Simply follow the instructions given before and you should be fine. Tell us if you run into any problems, most people on the list are willing to help even though your problem is not really related to Textmate itself.
Good luck, Nick
Am 23.03.2010 um 18:28 schrieb Lucy Buykx:
On 23 Mar 2010, at 17:10, Yan Zhou wrote:
I suggest you should consult the TUG (Tex User Group) mail list. This is really not a TextMate thing nor a LaTeX bundle thing. Installing and using package has nothing to do with TextMate or LaTeX bundle. They merely provide a excellent way for editing latex source file.
Can you confirm that the LaTeX bundle in TextMate provides support for writing source code, compiling and producing PDF output, but provides ZERO support for adding new packages?
There are dozens of ways to check which tex you are using.
In terminal, try
tex -version
or
latex -version
Have found that I do have a folder called /usr/local/texlive - MacOS Finder helpfully hides this so I was unable to see it before. However neither "tex" or "latex" are recognised as commands.
Most mac users nowadays use MacTeX, aka, TeXLive. If you find "TeX Distribution" in the System preference panel, then you are using it and you can check which distribution is in use.
Here's a screen shot of my system preferences - where would I go look for Tex Distribution?
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