Re: Installing ConTeXt Minimals on a Mac

[Alan Bowen <acbowen@princeton.edu>]

On Sep 1, 2008, at 13;43,19 , Mojca Miklavec wrote:

>> On Sep 1, 2008, at 12;24,41 , Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>>
>> For setting HOMETEXMF you can help yourself, though it would be nice
>> if we provided a solution that worked out of the box. But I would  
>> like
>> to get a confirmation from Hans that it's OK to do that.
>>
>> I have modified the texmf.cnf in
>> ./Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf/web2c with the lines
>> export HOMETEXMF=~/Library/texmf
>> export
>> TEXMF='{$TEXMFHOME,$TEXMFLOCAL,!!$TEXMFOS,!!$TEXMFCONTEXT,!! 
>> $TEXMFEXTRA,!!$TEXMFMAIN}'
>> but ConTeXt still does not find my personal texmf folder
>
> I probably told you wrong, but:
> 1.) you have HOMETEXMF first and then TEXMFHOME: these need to be  
> equal
> 2.) unless you are following (3), don't modify the file in texmf/,  
> but create
>  /Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-local/web2c/texmf.cnf
> instead, else the file will be overwritten at first update
> 3.) even then I'm not completely sure, but I guess that environmental
> variables override settings in texmf.cnf, so you either need to
>  a) modify setuptex (rename it and run the renamed file instead of  
> setuptex)
>  b) only export PATH and not run setuptex at all; in that case values
> from texmf.cnf will be used
> - maybe you need to run "mktexlsr" or "luatools --generate"
>>

OK. One quick reply just to see if I am on track.

I have created /Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-local/web2c/ 
texmf.cnf
where texmf.cnf now has
export HOMETEXMF=~/Library/texmf
export TEXMF='{$HOMETEXMF,$TEXMFLOCAL,!!$TEXMFOS,!!$TEXMFCONTEXT,!!

I have run
mktexlsr
luatools --generate

And still no luck, I am sorry to say. Perhaps I have misunderstood  
your remarks about HOMETEXMF and TEXMFHOME.

Alan
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