Re: texmf-local

["Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o." <LPr@pontex.cz>]

OK, thanks -

On Thu, 04 Aug 2011 11:19:55 +0200, Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com> wrote:

> 2011/8/4 Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o.:
>> Hello,
>>
>> how to "redirect" the Ctx "local" directory
>>
>> "c:\ConTeXt\tex\texmf-local"
>>
>> somewhere else, e.g. to
>>
>> "c:\Lukas\ConTeXt"?
>>
>> I'm looking for a way which would "survive" any occasion I update Ctx (even
>> when I delete the whole Ctx installation directory, = "installation from
>> scratch"), so e.g. editing a config file which would appear in Ctx
>> installation tree doesn't seem to be the best.
>>
>> I would expect e.g. setting a system variable, e.g. "set
>> TEXMFLOCAL=c:\Lukas\ConTeXt"; is there any way like this?
>
> 1.) TEXMFHOME (~/texmf) should work out of the box. I didn't test on
> windows and maybe we need something else for Windows, but you can try
> that one first. (I'm not sure what exactly is "~" home on windows.)

this seems to be the best way.

"~" doesn't substitute for "home directory", but e.g. 'HOMEDRIVE' and 'HOMEPATH' system variables may be used instead. (Beware! 'HOMEPATH' contains spaces in 99 % of cases! In my case, 'HOMEDRIVE' = "C:" and 'HOMEPATH' = "\Documents and Settings\LPR").

So my - not-so-typical - solution is:

- to use another variable, 'HOME' in my case, which points to "C:\Lukas" (and to another drives on other comps),
- to call '_InitCtx.bat' before running 'context.exe',
- '_InitCtx.bat' has the following content:

----
set PATH=c:\ConTeXt\tex\texmf-mswin\bin;%PATH%
rem The lowercase "c:" if fatally necesssary!

set TEXMFHOME=%TEXMFHOME%;%HOME%\ConTeXt\Fonts
----

And it works OK - even when some *.ttf are placed in "C:\Lukas\ConTeXt\Fonts".

Best regards,

Lukas


>
> 2.) You can create texmf.cnf & texmfcnf.lua in top level (next to
> texmf-xxx trees) and put your changes to TEXMFLOCAL there. Of course
> you will have to repeat the process if you delete everything (since
> your changes to TEXMFLOCAL will be gone), but at least you will keep
> all the files.
>
> 3.) You can define environmental variable that points to your desired directory.
>
> If something doesn't work, feel free to ask. It is not excluded that
> there is some bug somewhere.
>
> Mojca

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