Re: Local texmf tree not correctly recognised

2002-12-05 Thread Roland Jesse 
I wrote:

 I installed some local additions to the system wide texmf tree in
 ~~/texmf. In order to have latex pick that stuff up, I set $TEXMF to
 {$HOME/texmf,!!$TEXMFMAIN//,!!$TEXMFLOCAL//}. That results in:

While digging into this, I came accross section 3.3 in texdoc
kpathsea and am using $TEXINPUTS now. That works much better.

Thanks to all who helped.

While I am at it:

Thomas Esser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 warning: kpathsea: variable `TEXMF' references itself (eventually).
 
 I have seen this before. Could you please report that to
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]?

I don't get this error message on a machine with a more recent
(pretest) teTeX installation. The production machine still has
LaTeX2e 1999/12/01 patch level 1 installed. Personally, I deem
this minor bug to be fixed already. I might be wrong, though.

  Roland

Re: Local texmf tree not correctly recognised

2002-12-03 Thread Thomas Esser 
 I installed some local additions to the system wide texmf tree in
 ~~/texmf. In order to have latex pick that stuff up, I set $TEXMF to
 {$HOME/texmf,!!$TEXMFMAIN//,!!$TEXMFLOCAL//}. That results in:

You should make this
  {$HOME/texmf,!!$TEXMFMAIN,!!$TEXMFLOCAL}

 warning: kpathsea: variable `TEXMF' references itself (eventually).

I have seen this before. Could you please report that to [EMAIL PROTECTED]?

Thomas