Software:TeX Directory Structure

Short description: Directory hierarchy in typesetting software

Template:Only primary sources In typesetting software, TeX Directory Structure (TDS) is a directory hierarchy for macros, fonts, and the other implementation-independent TeX system files. The top-level directories are

Directory	Description
tex	TeX files (including LaTeX and other macro packages)
bibtex	BibTeX files
doc	user documentation
fonts	font-related files
metafont	METAFONT files
metapost	MetaPost files
scripts	platform-independent executables
source	sources

TDS is used by several TeX distributions, including teTeX, TeX Live and MiKTeX.

See also

• TeX Live
• TeX
• LaTeX

External links

• "Documentation". ftp.tug.org. ftp://ftp.tug.org/tex/tds/tds.pdf.  (To view documents see Help:FTP)
• HTML documentation on the TeX users group site