On Wed, 30 Jun 2021, Ágoston Volcz wrote:

> Hi there,
> 
> My university has special requirements for the theses I submit.
> Layout, fonts etc. are pretty straightforward to set up in ConTeXt.
> The one part I'm struggling with is citations / bibliography.
> I have to use the german citation style with footnotes. Essentially
> the first time I cite something, I have to put the full entry in a
> footnote. From the second time on, I only have to put a shorter entry
> in the footnotes.
> I have two problems:
> 
> 1. I created the publ-imp-deu.lua and publ-imp-deu.mkvi files. If I
> put them into the
> ~/bin/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/mkiv/ directory, I
> get the following two lines in the log:
> ```
> publications    > unknown library 'deu'
> publications    > no data definition file 'publ-imp-deu.lua' for 'deu'
> ```
> If I put them into the directory where my thesis is, they seem to get
> recognized, but I would very much like to reuse them and not have to
> copy them to each project directory. What am I doing wrong?

Try running mtxrun --generate to update the database.

However, I think that texmf-context/... is a bad place to put local files 
because they can be overwritten by system update. It may be better to put them 
in $TEXMFHOME/tex/context/personal/...

Aditya
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