Hi Hans,

===== Original Message From Hans Hagen ===== at the moment the best way of dealing with is is to use texexec's engine handler;

locate texexec.ini (or rme) and set

set UseEnginePath to true

after that pdfetex, aleph, xetex, mpost etc will end up on their own path.

I have done that previously and, yes, I do get the subdirectories. But that's not the problem. The problem is that aleph is searching for its format in pdfetex's subdirectory: This is Aleph, Version 3.141592-1.15-2.1-0.0-rc4 (Web2c 7.5.3) \write18 enabled. Copyright (c) 2002--2004 the Aleph task force ---! c:\CONTEXT\tex\texmf-mswin/web2c/pdfetex/cont-en.fmt was written by pdfetex How do we make aleph search its own subdirectory? Just to be sure, texexec --verbose gives setting : 'UseEnginePath' to 'true' for 'all' Best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523