packagespaths
I need to use an absolute path for my package.
One of the folder I use contains a space.
I cannot change the name of this folder.
So, how can I use paths containing the space character in usepackage ?
EDIT
I tried to put my path between double quotes (") but then, Latex tries to open the "<my path>".sty !!
I am using pdftex (I don't know if this info is relevant).
Note you should not include the .tex extension when using \include Unlike \input using .tex is not the same as using the default, it will find the same tex file but generate a different aux file one.tex.aux (if the file system allows that) rather than one.aux.
It normally works best to just use local file names rather than paths.
Just have
\include{one}
\include{two}
then use a command line of
TEXINPUTS=/path/to//: pdftex main
(or equivalent in other command lines, the above works in bash)
Setting TEXINPUTS as above sets the TeX input path to be /path/to and all its sub-directories (the trailing // and then the standard search path (because of the final :) then main on the command line finds /path/to/main.tex, \include{one} finds /path/to/main/one/one.tex and , \include{two} finds /path/to/main/two/two.tex irrespective of the current directory in which the command is run.
I've found the answer for my problem at the question Text spirals with TikZ. All credit goes to the original answer.
After including the following macro you can use the text path start scale=2.4 and text path end scale=0.5 key-value pairs in the decoration options.
\makeatletter
\let\pgf@lib@dec@text@dobox@original=\pgf@lib@dec@text@dobox%
\def\pgf@lib@dec@text@dobox{%
\pgf@lib@dec@text@dobox@original%
\ifpgfdecorationtextalongpathscaletext%
\pgfmathparse{\pgf@lib@dec@text@endscale+(\pgf@lib@dec@text@startscale-\pgf@lib@dec@text@endscale)*\pgfdecoratedremainingdistance/\pgfdecoratedpathlength}%
\setbox\pgf@lib@dec@text@box=\hbox{\scalebox{\pgfmathresult}{\box\pgf@lib@dec@text@box}}%
\fi%
}
\newif\ifpgfdecorationtextalongpathscaletext
\def\pgf@lib@dec@text@startscale{1}
\def\pgf@lib@dec@text@endscale{1}
\pgfkeys{/pgf/decoration/.cd,
text path start scale/.code={%
\pgfdecorationtextalongpathscaletexttrue%
\def\pgf@lib@dec@text@startscale{#1}%
},
text path end scale/.code={%
\pgfdecorationtextalongpathscaletexttrue%
\def\pgf@lib@dec@text@endscale{#1}%
}
}
See LEFT_1 path in the question and replace it with the following:
% LEFT_1
\path[decorate,%
decoration={text along path,%
text path start scale=2.4,
text path end scale=0.5,
text={vso nbl dsfn klijvb sodvn},%
text align={fit to path stretching spaces}},%
cm={{0.55521796,0.0,0.0,0.55521796,(-142.0,95.56731)}}]
(682.8721,718.1295) -- (940.1713,512.2902);
The oputput will be:
Best Answer
The initial statement is false:
\usepackagedoes not take a path at all --- it takes a package name.Set
TEXINPUTSto include the folder in which you have placedmdframed.styand then just useFor TeX Live and other web2c based systems you can set
TEXINPUTSeither as an environment variable or (better) in yourtexmf.cnffile.