Joel C. Salomon wrote:
> On 9/26/07, Hans Hagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> 1) Why we need to set almost all in setuptex.bat, while the same vars
>>> (except Windows' PATH) are already set in texmf.cnf?
>> well, this is not recent, but has aways been the case; in setuptex i
>> make sure that no conflicts can arise between different trees; so one
>> can have multiple trees installed, without clashed; you don't wanna know
>> what can happen (and how much time it costs to find out and fix) if some
>> installer has set variables at the outer shell level; i just don't want
>> to take any risk here
>
> So what environment variables can I set globally to avoid the need for
> running setuptex.bat? My first guess is:
>
> OSFONTDIR=%SystemRoot%\fonts
if you want to use platform fonts indeed
> SETUPTEX=done
> CTXMINIMAL=yes
not if setuptex is not used
> TEXPATH=C:\...<whatever the path is>...\context\tex\
> TEXMFMAIN=%TEXPATH%\texmf
>
> TEXMFOS=%TEXPATH%\texmf-mswin
> TEXMFPROJECT=%TEXPATH%\texmf-project
> TEXMFFONTS=%TEXPATH%\texmf-fonts
> TEXMFLOCAL=%TEXPATH%\texmf-local
> TEXMFEXTRA=%TEXPATH%\texmf-extra
depends on your trees
> TEXMFCNF=%TEXPATH%\texmf{-local,}\web2c
handy indeed
> TEXPOOL=%TEXMFOS%/web2c\{$engine,}
not for luatex/xetex
> TEXFORMATS=%TEXMFOS%\web2c\{$engine,}
not for luatex
> MPMEMS=%TEXMFOS%\web2c\{$engine,}
depends
> MPPOOL=%TEXMFOS%\web2c\{$engine,}
not needed any more
> Path=%TEXMFOS%\BIN;%Path%
sure
> TEXMFCACHE=%TEMP%
yes or use the defaults
> VARTEXMF=%TEXMFCACHE%\texmf-var
not really used
> TEXMF={$TEXMFOS,$TEXMFPROJECT,$TEXMFFONTS,$TEXMFLOCAL,$TEXMFEXTRA,!!$TEXMFMAIN}
yes
> TEXMFDBS=$TEXMF
dependes on kpse version i think
>
> RUBYLIB=%TEXMFLOCAL%\SCRIPTS\CONTEXT\RUBY;
often not needed
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