Re: Using the standalone ConTeXt, how do I add access to my texmf-local tree

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

On 3/6/2015 1:08 PM, Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o. wrote:
> Thanks for explanation, I didn't know about that...

i guess that there is a lot of stuff deep down only a few people know 
about (this is typical needed for more complex workflows) ... when i run 
into them i'll try to document them in 'workflows' but suggestions are 
welcome

(right now Alan is updating the new publications manual which will have 
some 8000 pages of tricky details and hidden features that we forget 
about as soon as we've added them)

> Lukas
>
>
> On Fri, 06 Mar 2015 10:52:47 +0100, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:
>
>> On 3/6/2015 9:22 AM, Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o. wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> when you want to use your personal (additional) path (but apparently not
>>> a tree), e.g. for styles (environments), you can use --path switch:
>>>
>>> "
>>> context.exe --path=c:\MyDirectory\MyContextStyles MyFile.tex
>>> "
>>>
>>> (Source: "context.exe --help")
>>>
>>> (Once I tried also:
>>>
>>> "
>>> set TeXMFLocal=c:\MyName\MyContextStyles & context.exe MyFile.tex
>>> "
>>>
>>> but ConTeXt doesn't look for TeXMFLocal nor TeXMF-Local environment
>>> paths, as I believed.)
>>>
>>> I didn't test whether
>>> "--path=c:\MyDirectory\MyContextStyles/" or
>>> "--path=c:\MyDirectory\MyContextStyles//" or
>>> "--path=c:\MyDirectory\MyContextStyles/*" or
>>> "--path=c:\MyDirectory\MyContextStyles/**"
>>> causes Ctx to use the whole tree instead of one path.
>>
>> why should it ... a path is a path unless specified otherwise
>>
>> we have a runtime tree search with:
>>
>>    context --path=tree://e:/tmp/whatever/**/ --global somefile.tex
>>
>> which is quite ok for jobs that involve not that many files
>>
>> and a cached-across-jobs search with
>>
>>    context --path=dirfile://e:/tmp/whatever --global somefile.tex
>>
>> (in that case you need to delete dirlist.tuc in the given path when you
>> add or remove files)
>>
>> the second one we use here in automated runs on servers where books are
>> generated from thousands of small files sitting on an nfs share and this
>> speeds up the search
>>
>> the --global bypasses the check for a valid file
>>
>> Hans
>>
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