From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/36797 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: still waiting for mswincontext Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 20:47:04 +0200 Message-ID: <46FFEF28.4090500@wxs.nl> References: <932847639.20070924171201@gmail.com> <6faad9f00709251502w585cf862m24bb3392996abf25@mail.gmail.com> <46FA0F5D.7040506@wxs.nl> <1267740929.20070926134033@gmail.com> <46FA38EE.7090203@wxs.nl> <7871fcf50709301022k77134a16k305a219d62d66553@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1191183305 30901 80.91.229.12 (30 Sep 2007 20:15:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 20:15:05 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sun Sep 30 22:15:01 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Ic5Bs-00041s-L0 for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Sep 2007 22:15:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B5481FA60; Sun, 30 Sep 2007 22:14:56 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 29703-02-2; Sun, 30 Sep 2007 22:14:48 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34F0C1FC54; Sun, 30 Sep 2007 20:47:24 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63DF81FC54 for ; Sun, 30 Sep 2007 20:47:20 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 18079-02-4 for ; Sun, 30 Sep 2007 20:47:15 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail.pragma-ade.net (dsl-083-247-100-017.solcon.nl [83.247.100.17]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 647501FC39 for ; Sun, 30 Sep 2007 20:47:15 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.100] (unverified [10.100.1.100]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.7b8) with ESMTP id 16492 for ; Sun, 30 Sep 2007 20:47:15 +0200 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728) In-Reply-To: <7871fcf50709301022k77134a16k305a219d62d66553@mail.gmail.com> X-Server: High Performance Mail Server - http://surgemail.com r=-274017400 X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-1 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:36797 Archived-At: Joel C. Salomon wrote: > On 9/26/07, Hans Hagen wrote: >>> 1) Why we need to set almost all in setuptex.bat, while the same vars (except Windows' PATH) are already set in texmf.cnf? >> well, this is not recent, but has aways been the case; in setuptex i >> make sure that no conflicts can arise between different trees; so one >> can have multiple trees installed, without clashed; you don't wanna know >> what can happen (and how much time it costs to find out and fix) if some >> installer has set variables at the outer shell level; i just don't want >> to take any risk here > > So what environment variables can I set globally to avoid the need for > running setuptex.bat? My first guess is: > > OSFONTDIR=%SystemRoot%\fonts if you want to use platform fonts indeed > SETUPTEX=done > CTXMINIMAL=yes not if setuptex is not used > TEXPATH=C:\......\context\tex\ > TEXMFMAIN=%TEXPATH%\texmf > > TEXMFOS=%TEXPATH%\texmf-mswin > TEXMFPROJECT=%TEXPATH%\texmf-project > TEXMFFONTS=%TEXPATH%\texmf-fonts > TEXMFLOCAL=%TEXPATH%\texmf-local > TEXMFEXTRA=%TEXPATH%\texmf-extra depends on your trees > TEXMFCNF=%TEXPATH%\texmf{-local,}\web2c handy indeed > TEXPOOL=%TEXMFOS%/web2c\{$engine,} not for luatex/xetex > TEXFORMATS=%TEXMFOS%\web2c\{$engine,} not for luatex > MPMEMS=%TEXMFOS%\web2c\{$engine,} depends > MPPOOL=%TEXMFOS%\web2c\{$engine,} not needed any more > Path=%TEXMFOS%\BIN;%Path% sure > TEXMFCACHE=%TEMP% yes or use the defaults > VARTEXMF=%TEXMFCACHE%\texmf-var not really used > TEXMF={$TEXMFOS,$TEXMFPROJECT,$TEXMFFONTS,$TEXMFLOCAL,$TEXMFEXTRA,!!$TEXMFMAIN} yes > TEXMFDBS=$TEXMF dependes on kpse version i think > > RUBYLIB=%TEXMFLOCAL%\SCRIPTS\CONTEXT\RUBY; often not needed ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl ----------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________