Dear cartel, I've been trying to control the search paths with C:\ConTeXt\tex\texmf-local\web2c\texmf.cnf, but I just realized that setuptex.bat overrides texmf.cnf. The way I found out is interesting: Upon running mktexlsr I get the line mktexlsr: c:/CONTEXT/tex/texmf-project is not a directory. Skipping... But in \texmf-local\web2c texmf.cnf has, not `texmf-project', but rather `texmf-projects' (with plural). And setuptex.bat is the only file that mentions `texmf-project';-) So now I have configured setuptex.bat to search TeXLive. The only hassle is that I must remember to back up my copy the next time ConTeXt updates. In case anyone else needs to do this (until Hans provides a better way;->) =========================== set TEXMFMAIN=%TEXPATH%texmf set TEXMFLOCAL=%TEXPATH%texmf-local set TEXMFFONTS=%TEXPATH%texmf-fonts set TEXMFEXTRA=%TEXPATH%texmf-extra REM set TEXMFPROJECT=%TEXPATH%texmf-project set TEXMFOS=%TEXPATH%texmf-mswin set VARTEXMF=%TMP%\texmf-var set HOMETEXMF=c:/TEXLIVE/texmf set HOMETEXMFVAR=c:/TEXLIVE/texmf-var <snip> REM set TEXMF={$TEXMFOS,$TEXMFPROJECT,$TEXMFFONTS,$TEXMFLOCAL,$TEXMFEXTRA,!!$TEXMFMAIN ,$HOMETEXMF} set TEXMF={$TEXMFOS,$TEXMFFONTS,$TEXMFLOCAL,$TEXMFEXTRA,$TEXMFMAIN,$HOMETEXMFVAR,$ HOMETEXMF} =========================== If I'm missing something or if there is a better/saner way please let me know. Now on to those other 3 problems in my previous email;-> Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523