Re: Using the standalone ConTeXt, how do I add access to my texmf-local tree

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

Thanks for explanation, I didn't know about that...

Lukas


On Fri, 06 Mar 2015 10:52:47 +0100, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:

> On 3/6/2015 9:22 AM, Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o. wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> when you want to use your personal (additional) path (but apparently not
>> a tree), e.g. for styles (environments), you can use --path switch:
>>
>> "
>> context.exe --path=c:\MyDirectory\MyContextStyles MyFile.tex
>> "
>>
>> (Source: "context.exe --help")
>>
>> (Once I tried also:
>>
>> "
>> set TeXMFLocal=c:\MyName\MyContextStyles & context.exe MyFile.tex
>> "
>>
>> but ConTeXt doesn't look for TeXMFLocal nor TeXMF-Local environment
>> paths, as I believed.)
>>
>> I didn't test whether
>> "--path=c:\MyDirectory\MyContextStyles/" or
>> "--path=c:\MyDirectory\MyContextStyles//" or
>> "--path=c:\MyDirectory\MyContextStyles/*" or
>> "--path=c:\MyDirectory\MyContextStyles/**"
>> causes Ctx to use the whole tree instead of one path.
>
> why should it ... a path is a path unless specified otherwise
>
> we have a runtime tree search with:
>
>    context --path=tree://e:/tmp/whatever/**/ --global somefile.tex
>
> which is quite ok for jobs that involve not that many files
>
> and a cached-across-jobs search with
>
>    context --path=dirfile://e:/tmp/whatever --global somefile.tex
>
> (in that case you need to delete dirlist.tuc in the given path when you
> add or remove files)
>
> the second one we use here in automated runs on servers where books are
> generated from thousands of small files sitting on an nfs share and this
> speeds up the search
>
> the --global bypasses the check for a valid file
>
> Hans
>
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