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From: "Mojca Miklavec" <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com>
To: janerik.hagglof@bredband.net,
	 "mailing list for ConTeXt users" <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: context minimals "path and directory structure" question
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 13:16:20 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6faad9f00810200416m5befac3eo3dbfa801ab42cd42@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1224490412.5955.21.camel@lundby>

On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 10:13 AM, Jan-Erik Hägglöf wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I'm using  context-minimal version: 2008.10.01 19:13 and have a
> generally question.
>
> I'm writing several documents with similar structure and design and have
> collected all common settings in "settings.tex" like following:
>
> \startenvironment settings
> ...
> ...
> ...
> \stopenvironment
>
> and just do the usual invoking by
>
> in
>
> anything.tex
>
> \environment settings
>
> \starttext
> ...
> ...
> ...
> \stoptext
>
> I've installed the "minimals" structure in /home/$USER/context/... on my
> ubuntu 8.04 machine.
>
> Now to the question:
>
> Where in this "structure" do I place "settings.tex" so it can be found
> by context from anywhere in my document-structure?

Like Luigi said, texmf-local/tex/context/whatever might be the best
place in the tree.

> I suppose I should do something like "context --make" after placing the
> file.

mktexlsr for kpathsea and luatools --generate for mkiv.
Though some folders are searched even without putting them to database.

> If I do the usual upgrade what happens then?

The script doesn't touch texmf-local.

> Is there a more efficient way doing similar tasks, like writing a
> module?

You can also have "settings.tex" on top of all the folders that use
it. Plain file and module do not make much difference in such cases.

(For safety reasons, I prefer to have a copy of such files locally (in
folder where I process files). I never know when I switch computer and
forget to copy some files from some "global" folders.)

Mojca
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-10-20 11:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-20  8:13 Jan-Erik Hägglöf
2008-10-20  9:16 ` luigi scarso
2008-10-20 11:16 ` Mojca Miklavec [this message]
2008-10-20 13:18 ` Aditya Mahajan

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