On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 7:19 PM, Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 11:46, Yanrui Li wrote: >> >> Recently I have found some environment variables in setuptex script >> are commented out sometimes, such as TEXMFLOCAL, TEXMFCONTEXT and so >> on. Is this be done deliberately? > > Yes (we were bored during some Polish talks at BachoTeX). > > The reason for setuptex setting all those variables in the old days > was to override tetex's environmental variables, but in principle this > is not needed at all unless tetex is present on computer. The reason > for removing them again was to make sure that Hans' scripts work > properly even when no environmental variable is set (which will be the > case on TeX Live for example). > > The only variable change that's really needed is fixing PATH, but it's > so convenient to be able to run > ". /path/to/setuptex" > instead of typing the long > export PATH="/path/to/minimals/bin:$PATH" > > We nevertheless left two or three variables since ConTeXt didn't yet > work properly without them, but we'll remove those as well. > > If anyone uses minimals on tetex, we can create an additional file > again that would enable complete isolation. > > We didn't clean up the windows script yet as it would need some more > testing (and we had enough problem by minimals not running at all on > unix), but that's still on TODO list ... > > We also silently added TEXMFHOME (while Hans was not watching), but > maybe we need to change the exact path. > > If you have any particular question or request about that, let us know. >
Thanks for your explanation. Now I see. I have no questions for these, only I have to modify instruction of these variables in the tutorial which I wrote for Chinese users :) -- Best wishes, Li Yanrui ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
