>>>>> "Georg" == Georg Baum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> I have been against modifying TEXINPUTS for a long time because it
>> is difficult to do in a portable way. However, I begin to wonder
>> whether it would be a better alternative.
Georg> What is difficult: Setting the environment variable, or
Georg> determine its value? I guess the latter should be doable
Georg> without too much pain with the existing path conversion
Georg> routines?
On unix, this is a ":" delimited list of directories. On windows,
depending on whether the program uses win32 paths or unix path, it
can be a ";" delimited list of directories.
On kpathsea-based program, I know that writing
TEXINPUTS=/foo/bar:${TEXINPUTS}
(or the equivalent C++ code) is always correct, because an empty path
element is equivalent to "search in default places". Is this true in
other TeX implementations?
This is the kind of questions I do not have good answers for.
JMarc
