On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 10:13 AM, Jan-Erik Hägglöf wrote: > Hello! > > I'm using context-minimal version: 2008.10.01 19:13 and have a > generally question. > > I'm writing several documents with similar structure and design and have > collected all common settings in "settings.tex" like following: > > \startenvironment settings > ... > ... > ... > \stopenvironment > > and just do the usual invoking by > > in > > anything.tex > > \environment settings > > \starttext > ... > ... > ... > \stoptext > > I've installed the "minimals" structure in /home/$USER/context/... on my > ubuntu 8.04 machine. > > Now to the question: > > Where in this "structure" do I place "settings.tex" so it can be found > by context from anywhere in my document-structure?
Like Luigi said, texmf-local/tex/context/whatever might be the best place in the tree. > I suppose I should do something like "context --make" after placing the > file. mktexlsr for kpathsea and luatools --generate for mkiv. Though some folders are searched even without putting them to database. > If I do the usual upgrade what happens then? The script doesn't touch texmf-local. > Is there a more efficient way doing similar tasks, like writing a > module? You can also have "settings.tex" on top of all the folders that use it. Plain file and module do not make much difference in such cases. (For safety reasons, I prefer to have a copy of such files locally (in folder where I process files). I never know when I switch computer and forget to copy some files from some "global" folders.) Mojca ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________
