Re: How to set paths -- wider view

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 12:18 18/09/2003 +0200, you wrote:

>I have to make a package for automatic conversion XML2PDF. I decide to use
>ConTeXt for it (neither XSLT nor xmltex, ..., are so suitable) and that is
>how our love began! The problem is that the package should be independent
>from kpathsea as far as possible. I mean searching paths for macros, fonts,
>encodings, ..., must be configurable internaly, without touching texmf.cnf
>and any other config files. There are three reasons: one is that my boss is
>unfortunately not interested in learnig/configuring/using TeX at all, second
>is that it must be portable and work with any(?) kpathsea installation with
>ConTeXt.  The last but not least is that there isn't still miniTeX (really
>mini!) kpathsea distribution which may be very usefull in such situation..

let's tell you a little secret:

   www.pragma-ade.com/context/cont-bas.tex
   www.pragma-ade.com/context/setup
   www.pragma-ade.com/context/setuptex.bat

(also, the example framework --work in progress-- permits you to run 
multiple trees in parallel and make choices depending on a task)

Hans
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