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B The top level directories in the texmf directory identifyC the major components of a TeX system. A site may omit any unneeded directories.
B Although the TDS is designed to be implementation-independent, theD TWG recognizes that some installers may wish to place other files in? the TDS. For example, TeX administrators may wish to place all D TeX-related files (including binaries, manual pages, pool files, and= formats) in the texmf tree. This greatly simplifies I administration of the TeX tree, especially if it is maintained by someone = other than the system administrator. Moreover, it allows the = administrator to construct a single ``TeX server'' (even in a " heterogenous network environment).
/ The directories specified in this document are:
] for input files used by TeX (see Section 3, Macros).
V for font-related files (see Section 4, Fonts).
s for (non-font) METAFONT files; (see Section 5, Non-font METAFONT Files).
X for METAPOST files (see Section 6, METAPOST).
[ for files used by BibTeX (see Section 7, BibTeX).
\ for user documentation (see Section 8, Documentation).
6 for TeX applications. (In fact, the tex,- metafont, metapost, and @ bibtex directories above may be seen as examples of9 this.) It may be convenient to store implementations . (emTeX, PCTeX, etc.) as well: as utilities (dvips, MakeIndex, etc.) inC their own directories. Sites can store implementation-specific files (configuration* files, compiled TeX format files, pool1 files, DLLs, etc.) and utility-specific files I (configuration files, input files, etc.) in their own subdirectories.
4 for sources. This includes both traditional program4 sources (for example, Web2C sources go in8 texmf/source/web2c) and LaTeX dtx * sources (texmf/source/latex).> The dtx files used for LaTeX distribution containD both the program sources and the documentation sources, so they ) are kept in the source tree.
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0 for binaries. The system directories@ allow multiple implementations to share the common directory: structure. For example, the binaries for a TeX system on a Sun workstation A might be installed in /texmf/bin/spsun413 (the name : spsun413 is one possible (ISO-9660 compliant)( abbreviation for SPARC SunOS 4.1.3).B Some TeX administrators may wish to put executables outside of texmf altogether.
B The standard texmf tree provides no explicit location forE locally-maintained files (e.g. letterheads), since that would require C duplicating the entire tree. Consequently, sites are encouraged to B maintain a separate tree for local styles and to use both trees in: search paths. For example, /usr/local/oratex and /usr/local/texmf.