On Sat, 9 Jul 2011, Cornelius C. Noack wrote:
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I believe there IS a better answer to (3), and unless I misunderstood something, it is the official recommendation of MiKTeX: (1) create a subfolder 'localmiktex' in which to put all your personal files -- in our case that means all MusiXTeX stuff -- in the subfolder localmiktex of your MiKTeX installation (where ever you have installed MiKTeX; for me it happens to be the installation default 'C:\programs\MiKTeX_2.7') [ If you are uncertain where that subfolder should be, look in the submenu 'roots' of the 'MiKTeX settings' menu; the correct folder level should be a subfolder of whatever is shown there as 'settings' ] (2) enter the full name of your localmiktex in the roots - settings . You will see the message: `The list of root directories. The order in the list determines the order in which files are searched'. NB: depending on the MiKTeX version, I have not always managed to put localmiktex in the order I wanted (does anybody know how to achieve that in MiKTeX 2.9 ?? (3) refresh the FNDB (File Name Data Base). After you have done that, all MiKTeX updates will leave the file structure (of localmiktex) and all its files untouched. (cut)
PS: From the logic of the whole MiKTeX setup, it looks to me as if it were possible to set localmitex (i.e. all of MusiXTeX!) OUTSIDE THE REALM of MiKTeX, --- as long as you enter the folder name of that in the MiKTeX roots menu . Logically this could save the localmiktex (i.e. MusiXTeX) from destruction when MiKTeX is uninstalled; but I havn't tried that out. Has anybody done so? THAT option, if feasible, would be the real solution to all these problems, at least IMHO.
PostScript: By now I have checked the last point. 4 conclusions: (a) you can have the localmiktex folder (MusiXTeX for our purpose) anywhere OUTSIDE the MiKTeX 'Master' folder (which is, e.g., C:\programs\MiKTeX_2.9) ; as long as you enter it in the 'roots' window in the MiKTeX 'settings' menue, (b) you can give it any name (i.e. `MusiXTeX' would be quite OK) --- it doesn't have to be called 'localmiktex' , (c) when this file is correctly entered in the 'roots' part of the settings menu, it will be entered in the MiKTeX data base and thus be available in MiKTeX in the usual way (after you have refreshed the FNDB, of course), (d) if the folder is OUTSIDE the MiKTeX folder, it will NOT BE TOUCHED when MiKTeX is deinstalled. Facit: the solution of the problem we have been dealing with is even simpler than I had suggested in my previous message. If anything is wrong with my conclusions, please protest! ccn. -- .................................................................. Prof.Dr. Cornelius C. Noack Inst. f. Theor. Physik FB 1 Universit"at Bremen Phone : +49 (421) 218-62031 Otto-Hahn-Allee Fax : -4869 D - 28334 Bremen home : +49 (421) 34 22 36 Fax: 346 7872 E-mail: noack at itp.uni-bremen.de or ccnoack at mailaps.org WWW-page: www.itp.uni-bremen.de/~noack .................................................................. ------------------------------- TeX-music@tug.org mailing list If you want to unsubscribe or look at the archives, go to http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music