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Where can I find TeX Live after installing via Homebrew?

I installed TeX Live via Homebrew (4.1.17) on my Mac (macOS Sonoma 14.1): brew install texlive. Now, I'd like to use this TeX Live distribution in IntelliJ IDEA with the plugin TeXiFy IDEA. When ...
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TEXMFHOME not searched by texstudio after homebrew texlive install (after switching to Ventura?)

I was previously on texlive under MacOS Macports, and using texstudio without any problem. I have a bunch of custom packages in ~/Library/texmf and when I build my documents on the command line in ...
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Add a custom directory localtexmf to Texlive on MacOS (Monterey)

I have a directory (coming from MikTeX) named localtexmf which contains all sorts of personal files (fonts I purchased, some .cls files etc.) which I need. I knew how to add the directory to MikTeX ...
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minted stops working, no clear error [duplicate]

After a series of updates (Pygments, TeXLive, OS), minted stopped working. I can't spot any error in the log. On this input: %!TEX TS-options = -shell-escape \documentclass{article} \usepackage{...
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tlmgr: action not allowed in system mode: ... (texlive)

I made a fresh install of texlive using homebrew on a macbook that have sat unused for about a year. I removed all previous tex distributions I found, both for the (sole) user and systemwide. Now I am ...
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TeX Live 2021 CJK bug

Including CJK seems to disable the effects of \bf and \it. For instance, the picture is generated by the following code: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{CJK} \begin{document} One \bf{two} \it{...
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Updating tlmgr on macOS Big Sur

I installed macOS Big Sur (11.1) on my MacBook Pro as well as BasicTeX and I am trying to update tlmgr by running sudo tlmgr update --self but an error occurs. I guess the main message is that only ...
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pdflatex memoir compiling errors (Undefined control sequence. [\ifmem@noetex])

I was trying to change the appearance of my document via memoir package, but have encountered some mistakes when I tried to produce pdf. The source code for document is pretty simple \documentclass[...
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Running pdflatex from a RAM disk

For performance reasons. I would like to be able to run pdflatex directly from memory and not have to go to disk. Plan is to set up a RAM disk, /RamDisk, and run everything there. Currently I have ...
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Determine active distribution via shell script

Background: Currently, I have installed /usr/local/texlive/2016 /usr/local/texlive/2017 /usr/local/texlive/2018 With TeXLive, I can use the TeX Live Utility.app to select which TeX distribution to ...
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GFS Bodoni not working in TeX Live with macOS and Sublime Text

I am desperately trying to get GFS Bodoni working for my thesis. I added the usepackage-commands as described on the LaTeX Font Catalogue to my TeX file: \documentclass[10pt,a4paper]{book} ... \...
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