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From: Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: typesetting documentation
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:29:21 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0803242019100.11443@nqv-yncgbc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <335E60C8-AEA3-4DED-AD01-9552C1DF0B53@science.uva.nl>

On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Hans van der Meer wrote:

> I looked up what Aditya said can be found in the wiki and did:
>
> 	texmfstart texexec --module kpse:mult-ini.tex
>
> I get the following output on my console:
> 108 ~/Temp/tex: texmfstart texexec --module kpse:mult-ini.tex
> /usr/local/texlive/texmf-context/scripts/context/ruby/ctxtools.rb:641:in 
> `initialize': Permission denied - 
> /usr/local/texlive/texmf-context/tex/context/base/mult-ini.ted 
> (Errno::EACCES)
> 	from 
> /usr/local/texlive/texmf-context/scripts/context/ruby/ctxtools.rb:641:in 
> `open'
> 	from 
> /usr/local/texlive/texmf-context/scripts/context/ruby/ctxtools.rb:641:in 
> `documentation'
> 	from 
> /usr/local/texlive/texmf-context/scripts/context/ruby/ctxtools.rb:629:in 
> `each'
> 	from 
> /usr/local/texlive/texmf-context/scripts/context/ruby/ctxtools.rb:629:in 
> `documentation'
> 	from 
> /usr/local/texlive/texmf-context/scripts/context/ruby/ctxtools.rb:2778:in 
> `send'
> 	from 
> /usr/local/texlive/texmf-context/scripts/context/ruby/ctxtools.rb:2778
>
> The permissions of the directory involved can be seen from:
> 	ls -l /usr/local/texlive/texmf-context/tex/context
> ==>
> 	drwxr-xr-x 767 sysop staff 26078 11 mrt 18:31 base
>
> That is, texexec tries to write into a directory for which has no write 
> access. I operate normally as myself and only for the installation of 
> software assume the role of system operator (to hinder rogue programs and 
> protect myself from stupid deletes, for example).
>
> Do I understand correctly from this, that unless one has write access to the 
> tex installation directories one cannot typeset the module source?
> If so, I urge Hans Hagen to change this and let texexec and friends write 
> into tmp directories or in the users current directory.

Sometimes I want to run texexec on a file in the different directory. In 
that case, I find it useful that texexec is run on the directory in which 
the file lies (otherwise things like \input and \component will not work 
properly)

> But I might be wrong and having something other amiss.

You can just copy the file to a local directory and create the 
documentation.

Aditya
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  reply	other threads:[~2008-03-25  0:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-24 14:01 Hans van der Meer
2008-03-24 14:42 ` Aditya Mahajan
2008-03-24 15:04   ` luigi scarso
2008-03-24 19:16   ` Hans van der Meer
2008-03-25  0:29     ` Aditya Mahajan [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1999-11-24  1:34 Typesetting documentation David Arnold
1999-11-24  8:09 ` Hans Hagen

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