[Tex/LaTex] Why can’t MikTex find all of the style files

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I was wondering if you could help me please. I'm using MiKTeX 2.9 and WinEdt on Windows 7 and I've tried to add the style files that I need to use for a particular project to the search path for MiKTeX.

I created a folder called Local within My Documents and then within that another folder called Tex and then added the folder containing all of my style files to the Tex folder.

Next I added C:/../MyDocuments/Local as a root directory with MiKTeX. When I try to build a LaTeX document, however, it seems that MiKTeX can find some but not all of my style files. I've double checked and they are all in there, so I'm not sure as to why it can't find some of them.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks in advance for your help!

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Don't forget to press FNDB after making a new root. And your TeX input file (that uses the style) must not be in the root directory you just created.

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Update: Obsolete since Dec 5 2012.

Problem solved.

As yhmath.ins didn't generate any .map file, I previously created yhmath.map with Wordpad, which proved to be a mistake: I only obtained a .txt file named yhmath.map.

So I pasted a file .map whatever into \localtexmf\fonts\map\dvips\yhmath, changed it with Wordpad, saved it being careful not to change its format, and renamed as yhmath.map. Then I ran initexmf --mkmaps, and kpsewhich could find yhmath.map.

Still MikTex couldn't find yrcmex10.tfm.

I eventually discovered that running initexmf --edit-config-file updmap edited updmap.cfg located in \AppData\Roaming\MikTex\2.9\miktx\config\ directory, while I actually wanted to edit the homonym file in \Program Files\MikTex 2.9\miktex\config\. So I copied the file in \AppData\[...] and pasted to \Program Files\[...].

Ran initexmf --mkmaps again. Ran testfont.tex and found the font yrcmex10.tfm was avaliable to MikTex.

There is still a minor issue. Creating a .ps or a .dvi with Texniccenter works fine. A .pdf will contain some wrong characters, due to the fact that the embodied font yhcmex10.tfm is not avaliable to extract.

Here is a Minimal Working Example

\documentclass{report}
\usepackage{yhmath}
\begin{document}
$\wideparen{ab} \widetriangle{ab} \widering{ab}$
\end{document}

example output with MiKTeX and TeX Live

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[Tex/LaTex] How to install mathtools package

If you have installed MikTeX 2.9 (on Windows) is very easy. You can go to

Home->Programs->MiKTeX 2.9->Maintenance (Admin)->Package Manager (Admin)

Alternative path to admin exe file C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\miktex\bin

or without (Admin) if you want to install the new packages in a local directory. There you can choose any package and to install it by clicking in + button. In case of the mathtools package you can find it in the mh bundle (it appears in the list of installable packages) and provides a series of packages designed to enhance the appearance of documents containing a lot of mathematics (mathtools included).

Edit

From August 19'th 2014 the mh bundle has disappeared in MiKTeX, now it's possible to find the mathtools package separately.

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