On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 10:13 AM, Jan-Erik Hägglöf wrote:
Hello!
I'm using context-minimal version: 2008.10.01 19:13 and have a generally question.
I'm writing several documents with similar structure and design and have collected all common settings in "settings.tex" like following:
\startenvironment settings ... ... ... \stopenvironment
and just do the usual invoking by
in
anything.tex
\environment settings
\starttext ... ... ... \stoptext
I've installed the "minimals" structure in /home/$USER/context/... on my ubuntu 8.04 machine.
Now to the question:
Where in this "structure" do I place "settings.tex" so it can be found by context from anywhere in my document-structure?
Like Luigi said, texmf-local/tex/context/whatever might be the best place in the tree.
I suppose I should do something like "context --make" after placing the file.
mktexlsr for kpathsea and luatools --generate for mkiv. Though some folders are searched even without putting them to database.
If I do the usual upgrade what happens then?
The script doesn't touch texmf-local.
Is there a more efficient way doing similar tasks, like writing a module?
You can also have "settings.tex" on top of all the folders that use it. Plain file and module do not make much difference in such cases. (For safety reasons, I prefer to have a copy of such files locally (in folder where I process files). I never know when I switch computer and forget to copy some files from some "global" folders.) Mojca