Search path for typescripts

Search path for typescripts

[Rik Kabel]

List,

What is the proper place to put a custom typescript file to make it 
accessible to multiple projects?

For testing I placed copies in"
1)  the local directory
2)  <user>/texmf/fonts
3)  <installation>/tex/texmf-local/fonts/

A standard version (uncustomized) exists as part of the distribution in:
4)  <installation>/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/fonts/mkiv/

luatools <typescriptfile>

finds the file in 1, 4, and 2.

That is, after the local directory it immediately takes the standard 
installation directory, never looking in the places one might store 
local versions meant to override the distribution files. It might get to 
one of those directories (<user>/texmf/fonts) if there is no standard 
file in the distribution, but that is not the case here.

I did not see an appropriate environment variable to control this. It 
does not seem sensitive to TEXMF or OSFONTDIR.

So, where do I place the customized typescript, or how do I tell ConTeXt 
where to look?

-- 
Rik
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Re: Search path for typescripts

[Aditya Mahajan]

On Thu, 28 Feb 2019, Rik Kabel wrote:

> List,
>
> What is the proper place to put a custom typescript file to make it 
> accessible to multiple projects?
>
> For testing I placed copies in"
> 1)  the local directory
> 2)  <user>/texmf/fonts
> 3)  <installation>/tex/texmf-local/fonts/

A typescript file is simply a tex file, so the usual rules for storing tex 
file applies. You should try a sub-directory of:

$TEXMFHOME/tex/context/

or

$TEXMFLOCAL/tex/context/

Aditya
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Re: Search path for typescripts

[Rik Kabel]

On 2/28/2019 22:42, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Feb 2019, Rik Kabel wrote:
>
>> List,
>>
>> What is the proper place to put a custom typescript file to make it 
>> accessible to multiple projects?
>>
>> For testing I placed copies in"
>> 1)  the local directory
>> 2)  <user>/texmf/fonts
>> 3)  <installation>/tex/texmf-local/fonts/
>
> A typescript file is simply a tex file, so the usual rules for storing 
> tex file applies. You should try a sub-directory of:
>
> $TEXMFHOME/tex/context/
>
> or
>
> $TEXMFLOCAL/tex/context/
>
> Aditya 

Thank you,  Aditya.

I had the file at the wrong place in the local tree (with my fonts). 
Moving it to  ./tex/context indeed solves the problem.

-- 
Rik

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