I have to make a package for automatic conversion XML2PDF. I decide to use ConTeXt for it (neither XSLT nor xmltex, ..., are so suitable) and that is how our love began! The problem is that the package should be independent from kpathsea as far as possible. I mean searching paths for macros, fonts, encodings, ..., must be configurable internaly, without touching texmf.cnf and any other config files. There are three reasons: one is that my boss is unfortunately not interested in learnig/configuring/using TeX at all, second is that it must be portable and work with any(?) kpathsea installation with ConTeXt. The last but not least is that there isn't still miniTeX (really mini!) kpathsea distribution which may be very usefull in such situation..
let's tell you a little secret:
www.pragma-ade.com/context/cont-bas.tex www.pragma-ade.com/context/setup www.pragma-ade.com/context/setuptex.bat
(also, the example framework --work in progress-- permits you to run multiple trees in parallel and make choices depending on a task)
Hans
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