From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/36796 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Joel C. Salomon" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: still waiting for mswincontext Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:22:19 -0400 Message-ID: <7871fcf50709301022k77134a16k305a219d62d66553@mail.gmail.com> References: <932847639.20070924171201@gmail.com> <6faad9f00709251502w585cf862m24bb3392996abf25@mail.gmail.com> <46FA0F5D.7040506@wxs.nl> <1267740929.20070926134033@gmail.com> <46FA38EE.7090203@wxs.nl> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1191172975 24966 80.91.229.12 (30 Sep 2007 17:22:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 17:22:55 +0000 (UTC) To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sun Sep 30 19:22:51 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Ic2VG-00042m-Aq for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Sep 2007 19:22:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 039B31FC32; Sun, 30 Sep 2007 19:22:46 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 07738-01-2; Sun, 30 Sep 2007 19:22:31 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02CF91FC5A; Sun, 30 Sep 2007 19:22:30 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9C691FAAE for ; Sun, 30 Sep 2007 19:22:26 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 07738-01 for ; Sun, 30 Sep 2007 19:22:20 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.190]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F4291FC32 for ; Sun, 30 Sep 2007 19:22:20 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id b2so2275585nfb for ; Sun, 30 Sep 2007 10:22:19 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.78.201.15 with SMTP id y15mr2151832huf.1191172939408; Sun, 30 Sep 2007 10:22:19 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.78.40.4 with HTTP; Sun, 30 Sep 2007 10:22:19 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <46FA38EE.7090203@wxs.nl> Content-Disposition: inline X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:36796 Archived-At: On 9/26/07, Hans Hagen wrote: > > 1) Why we need to set almost all in setuptex.bat, while the same vars (except Windows' PATH) are already set in texmf.cnf? > > well, this is not recent, but has aways been the case; in setuptex i > make sure that no conflicts can arise between different trees; so one > can have multiple trees installed, without clashed; you don't wanna know > what can happen (and how much time it costs to find out and fix) if some > installer has set variables at the outer shell level; i just don't want > to take any risk here So what environment variables can I set globally to avoid the need for running setuptex.bat? My first guess is: OSFONTDIR=%SystemRoot%\fonts SETUPTEX=done CTXMINIMAL=yes TEXPATH=C:\......\context\tex\ TEXMFMAIN=%TEXPATH%\texmf TEXMFOS=%TEXPATH%\texmf-mswin TEXMFPROJECT=%TEXPATH%\texmf-project TEXMFFONTS=%TEXPATH%\texmf-fonts TEXMFLOCAL=%TEXPATH%\texmf-local TEXMFEXTRA=%TEXPATH%\texmf-extra TEXMFCNF=%TEXPATH%\texmf{-local,}\web2c TEXPOOL=%TEXMFOS%/web2c\{$engine,} TEXFORMATS=%TEXMFOS%\web2c\{$engine,} MPMEMS=%TEXMFOS%\web2c\{$engine,} MPPOOL=%TEXMFOS%\web2c\{$engine,} Path=%TEXMFOS%\BIN;%Path% TEXMFCACHE=%TEMP% VARTEXMF=%TEXMFCACHE%\texmf-var TEXMF={$TEXMFOS,$TEXMFPROJECT,$TEXMFFONTS,$TEXMFLOCAL,$TEXMFEXTRA,!!$TEXMFMAIN} TEXMFDBS=$TEXMF RUBYLIB=%TEXMFLOCAL%\SCRIPTS\CONTEXT\RUBY; ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________