Re: [NTG-context] How to process a project residing in another directory

On Mon, 16 Apr 2012, Hans Hagen wrote:

On 16-4-2012 15:00, Helge Blischke wrote:

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Hans Hagen writes:

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On 15-4-2012 23:57, Helge Blischke wrote:

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I try to process a ConTeXt project residing in a directory different from the current directory (where context is called), imagine e.g. a NFS mounted directory on a different host.

I tried to point context to the project directory by specifying it by the command line option --path=absolute_path_to_the_directory but that did not work.

mtxrun --path=... --script context ...

But what to do if the directory specified by the --path= option is not writeable for the user executing mtxrun?

then put all the project files in <texroot>/texmf-project/tex/context/user, run mtxrun --generate, and run on a directory where the used can mess around

Is there a tree, other than TEXMFHOME, which is scanned at runtime? (so that mtxrun --generate is not needed). For example, one can do the following: TEXMFHOME=path-to-project-files context filename But this overwrites the default value of TEXMFHOME. If the mtxrun --generate step were not needed, one could do the same with TEXMFPROJECT tree. Aditya