submission from [Tobias Burnus <burnus@net-b.de>]

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 10:21 AM 4/3/2002 +0200, owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Ed L Cashin wrote:
> > Hi.  At school there's a Solaris computer where I and some faculty
> > have accounts, but I don't have control over the system.  So I cannot
> > directly change the teTeX installation.  The sysadmins are amenable to
> > working with me, but their busy.
>:-(
>It shouldn't be too difficult to do a fmtutil --edit; fmtutil --missing
>
> > Anyway, since it's a default tetex installation the context format
> > isn't there.  It seems like I should be able to simply generate the
> > format somewhere in my home directory and somehow convince tex to use
> > it.  That way I can use context even if the system administrators
> > haven't set up the system tetex installation for context.
>Depending on the (te)TeX installation it may be enough to put your
>texmf tree into your $HOME/texmf/ directory.
>
>Thus:
>
>1) mkdir ~/texmf; cd ~/texmf; unzip -a ../cont-tmf.zip
>    mkdir web2c; cp `kpsewhich fmtutil.cnf` web2c
>
>2) Edit fmtutil.cnf
>
>3) run:
>    texhash; fmtutil --fmtdir ~/texmf/web2c --missing;
>    cd ~/texmf/web2c; mpost -ini metafun
>    texhash
>
>4) Make sure that you run the perlscripts supplied with
>    your context. With old context scripts and a new
>    format some strange things may happen.
>
>
>If (3) fails than you probably don't have something like
>   HOMETEXMF = $HOME/texmf
>   TEXMF = {$HOMETEXMF,!!$TEXMFLOCAL,!!$TEXMFMAIN}
>in `kpsewhich texmf.cnf`.
>
>Workaround:
>   export TEXMF='{'$HOME'/texmf,!!/usr/local/share/texmf}'
>or
>   setenv TEXMF '{'$HOME'/texmf,!!/usr/local/share/texmf}'
>You need of cause replace /usr/local/share/texmf by
>the string from your installation and add other
>settings if needed be (all variables from `kpsewhich texmf.cnf`
>can be set using environment variables).
>
>Tobias
>--
>This above all: To thine own self be true / And it must follow as
>the night the day / Thou canst not then be false to any man.

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