Re: Emacs + latest beta

[Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl>]

On 8/24/2018 3:48 PM, Vladimir Lomov wrote:

> I don't know why you get "damaged" pdf file (in fact how do you know
> that file is damaged?) but "TEXMFCNF" is special variable that I uses to
> tweak TeX Live configuration for my latex workflow but context
> (standalone and from TL) refuses to work if this variable is set (in
> terminal I do 'unset' while in Emacs I set its value to 'nil' because
> this is identical to "unset" it). The "TEXROOT" variable I found in
> update script, I'm not sure if context requires it to work but IMHO, it
> is harmless. And the last variable "TEXMFCACHE" I use to force context
> to use ~/.cache for "luatex-cache" directory and not "pollute" my home
> directory (without it the "luatex-cache" directory will be created in
> $HOME directory).

context does listen to some of these variables but all lookups are done 
independent of kpse, basically you only need to set the path or run 
context / mtxrun with a full path, often from an editor

<pathtomtxrun>/mtxrun --script context ....

works ok

Hans

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