===== Original Message From "Thomas A.Schmitz" ===== hmm, I have zero experience with Windows and wouldn't get near a computer running Windows if you payed me for it,

I certainly agree with this sentiment, and will make yet another attempt to switch to Linux this year; kde3.4 is looking nice...

but I guess there must be a central configuration file somewhere. On linux and unix systems, it's called texmf.cnf.

It's the same here; I'll look into it. There may be some os-related syntax issues, though, since kpsewhich -var-value TEXMFLOCAL gives kpsewhich: unrecognized option `-var-value' But I'll keep working/learning. Thnx! Idris That's where you define which tex-trees you have

and in what order they should be searched. So if you want to have your new C/Context searched first, your C/Texlive second, one of them should be set as TEXMFLOCAL, the other as TEXMFMAIN. What does

Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523