Marco Patzer
2012-10-30 John Devereux:
It looks like \usepath is the key to what I want, thank you.
Yes, combine \usepath with the \startmodeset syntax that Wolfgang suggested and you should have a clean solution.
I don't quite understand your overall structure.
You're right. Without file names it's hard to follow, especially with the mistake I made.
Is the "*" a literal "*" with some special meaning, or are you using it as a placeholder for something?
It is a literal `*`. That means that the file name will be used as a component (or product) name.
I am not using the project/product/component system, perhaps I should look into it again.
Hmmm, alpha.tex defines component "a", beta.tex defines "b", is that right?
No, that's my fault. Of course they have to match.
Excellent, thanks to you and Wolfgang. -- John Devereux