Hi, can I somehow set up that files within TEXMFHOME are preferred to files found in the distribution? Or is there another variable which is more suitable than TEXMFHOME for this purpose? Marco
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 8:58 PM, Marco Patzer wrote:
Hi,
can I somehow set up that files within TEXMFHOME are preferred to files found in the distribution? Or is there another variable which is more suitable than TEXMFHOME for this purpose?
Doesn't it already have the highest priority? MkII: TEXMFHOME = $HOME/texmf TEXMF = {$TEXMFHOME,!!$TEXMFPROJECT,!!$TEXMFFONTS,!!$TEXMFLOCAL,!!$TEXMFMODULES,!!$TEXMFCONTEXT,!!$TEXMFOS,!!$TEXMFMAIN} MkIV: TEXMFHOME = "home:texmf", TEXMF = "{$TEXMFHOME,!!$TEXMFPROJECT,!!$TEXMFFONTS,!!$TEXMFLOCAL,!!$TEXMFMODULES,!!$TEXMFCONTEXT,!!$TEXMFSYSTEM,!!$TEXMFMAIN}", Mojca
On 2013–01–22 Mojca Miklavec wrote:
Doesn't it already have the highest priority?
I did assume that, but that's not the case. Take your t-gnuplot.tex module, for instance, make some changes and place it in $TEXMFHOME. ConTeXt still uses the old version found in texmf-modules/tex/context/third/gnuplot/t-gnuplot.tex Marco
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 9:29 PM, Marco Patzer wrote:
On 2013–01–22 Mojca Miklavec wrote:
Doesn't it already have the highest priority?
I did assume that, but that's not the case. Take your t-gnuplot.tex module, for instance, make some changes and place it in $TEXMFHOME. ConTeXt still uses the old version found in
texmf-modules/tex/context/third/gnuplot/t-gnuplot.tex
I don't know how to reproduce that even though I remember that I had problem if I set "export TEXMFHOME=/path/with/trailing/slash/". What does mtxrun t-gnuplot.tex return you? Also: - What is your $TEXMFHOME and how did you change it in case that you did? - Where exactly is your file t-gnuplot.tex? - Do you run MkIV? With current beta or with TeX Live? - What does 'kpsewhich t-gnuplot.tex' return you? Mojca
On 2013–01–22 Mojca Miklavec wrote:
I don't know how to reproduce that even though I remember that I had problem if I set "export TEXMFHOME=/path/with/trailing/slash/".
I used the following setup to create a reproducible clean
environment without interference of possibly set variables.
curl -O http://minimals.contextgarden.net/setup/first-setup.sh
chmod +x first-setup.sh
./first-setup.sh --modules=t-gnuplot
mkdir mymodules
echo '\bold' >mymodules/t-mymodule.tex
echo '\sans' >mymodules/t-gnuplot.tex
cat > test-mymodule.tex < What does
mtxrun t-gnuplot.tex
return you? test setup:
/home/fusion/tex/texmf-modules/tex/context/third/gnuplot/t-gnuplot.tex
mymodules/t-gnuplot.tex
in my real setup only the distribution file is found. I didn't yet
try to figure out why. - What is your $TEXMFHOME and how did you change it in case that you did? See minimal example above. In my real setup it's
/home/marco/usr/share/texmf
and it's set in $HOME/.profile using export TEXMFHOME=… - Where exactly is your file t-gnuplot.tex? See minimal example above. In my real setup it's
/home/marco/usr/share/texmf/t-gnuplot.tex - Do you run MkIV? Yes With current beta or with TeX Live? current version: 2013.01.22 18:33 - What does 'kpsewhich t-gnuplot.tex' return you? I didn't know ConTeXt uses kpsewhich.
test setup:
/home/fusion/tex/texmf-modules/tex/context/third/gnuplot/t-gnuplot.tex
real setup:
/home/marco/usr/local/share/context-beta/tex/texmf-modules/tex/context/third/gnuplot/t-gnuplot.tex
Marco
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 11:26 AM, Marco Patzer wrote:
I used the following setup to create a reproducible clean environment without interference of possibly set variables.
echo '\sans' >mymodules/t-gnuplot.tex
You should put the file under mymodules/tex/context/third/t-gnuplot.tex and not just anywhere on top level of $TEXMFHOME. At least somewhere under mymodules/tex/ (but I'm not sure if that alone is 100% safe - that is - I'm not sure about the search/sort order of two files with the same name under a different path inside the texmf tree).
- What does 'kpsewhich t-gnuplot.tex' return you?
I didn't know ConTeXt uses kpsewhich.
In MkII it does. But I meant it more like a cross-check. It might be that there would be some bug in mtxrun when searching for files and in that case kpsewhich may serve as a confirmation that your set up works or doesn't work properly. Mojca
On 2013–01–23 Mojca Miklavec wrote:
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 11:26 AM, Marco Patzer wrote:
I used the following setup to create a reproducible clean environment without interference of possibly set variables.
echo '\sans' >mymodules/t-gnuplot.tex
You should put the file under mymodules/tex/context/third/t-gnuplot.tex and not just anywhere on top level of $TEXMFHOME.
That works, thanks. I didn't think about the importance of the tex file system structure within TEXMFHOME since my personal files always have been picked up from random subdirectories within TEXMFHOME.
At least somewhere under mymodules/tex/ (but I'm not sure if that alone is 100% safe - that is - I'm not sure about the search/sort order of two files with the same name under a different path inside the texmf tree).
mymodules/tex doesn't seem to be sufficient. My tests revealed that for files not present in the distribution tex tree the location within TEXMFHOME does not matter. Files present in the distribution which are supposed to be overwritten in TEXMFHOME need the same path. Maybe this is more strict than necessary, but it works. A version mismatch that gets unnoticed can be very frustrating.
I didn't know ConTeXt uses kpsewhich.
In MkII it does. But I meant it more like a cross-check. It might be that there would be some bug in mtxrun when searching for files and in that case kpsewhich may serve as a confirmation that your set up works or doesn't work properly.
All right. Problem solved. Thanks Mojca! Marco
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