Re: basic luatex/minimals problem

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
> 
> On Feb 21, 2009, at 12:07 AM, Alan Bowen wrote:
> 
>> Aditya—
>>
>> luatools --expand-var TEXMF gets
>>
>> {/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-project,/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-fonts,/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-local,/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-osx-intel,/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-context,/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-extra,!!/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf} 
>>
>>
>> and kpsewhich --expand-var $TEXMF gets
>>
>> {/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-project,/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-fonts,/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-local,/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-osx-intel,/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-context,/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-extra,!!/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf} 
>>
>>
>> Alan
> 
> This is a problem we discussed in Bohinj, and it's good that you remind 
> us of its existence - we need to take a decision about this. The file 
> which defines the texmf-paths for the minimals on Unixoid systems is 
> ~/context/tex/setuptex. If you look into it, you'll see on l. 143
> 
> export HOMETEXMF=/nonexist
> 
> Hans explained that he didn't want to have HOMETEXMF set on his machine. 
> Unfortunately, many users will expect HOMETEXMF to work with the minimal 
> installation. The normal place for it is ~/texmf (Alan, you should move 
> it out of ~/Library). So what can we do? Hans, is there any workaround 
> for you? Most users will be as baffled as Alan when the stuff they have 
> installed in their personal trees isn't found. Personally, I have set up 
> all my stuff in a personal .miniluatex file which I source whenever I 
> want to run context, but I don't know how this would work with TeXShop. 
> IMHO, the normal ~/texmf should be included out of the box. What do 
> others think - Mojca?

hm, needs thinking (also because we then need to cache the home path)

i have no time now to test this

Hans

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