Hello Dmitrij,<br>I don't exactly have an answer for you, but<br>I am currently trying to do what Karl described. <br>My current status is that I cannot view DVI files,<br>and I cannot use packages. Very simple documents<br>however, do work. <br><br>In case it helps you, and in case you or someone else <br>can help me, here is what I have done so far:<br><br>tlmpgui installs material in C:\TexLive2007 and C:\texmf-var. TexLive2007<br>contains the dvi viewer, ghostscript, and a temp directory, if I recall correctly<br>(I am not at a PC). In my case, I also needed to change the default paper size <br>so I clanged the files indicted at the end of this post and ran <br>c:\localtexmf\dvipdfm\config>fmtutil.exe --all<br>which made about what had been about 10 megabytes <br>in texmf-var become 53 megabytes.<br><br>I then moved texmf-var to the directory that would become the root of my DVD.<br><br>I use TexLive through emacs, so I set my environment variables in
site-lisp/site-start.el<br>as follows (I am just starting to learn emacs lisp, so corrections are welcome):<br><br>(setenv "PATH" (concat (getenv "PATH") <br> ";D:\\bin\\win32\\gs\\gs8.54\\bin;D:\\bin\\win32\\dviout;D:\\bin\\win32" ))<br>(setenv "GS_LIB" (concat () "D:\\bin\\win32\\gs\\gs8.54\\lib" ))<br>(setenv "TLroot" (concat () "D:\\" ))<br>(setenv "TEXMFVAR" (concat () "D:\\texmf-var" ))<br>(setenv "TEXMFTEMP" (concat () "C:\\WINDOWS\\Temp" ))<br>(setenv "TEXMFCNF" (concat () "D:\\texmf-var\\web2c" ))<br>(setenv "PERL5LIB" (concat () "D:\\perlt\\lib;D:\\perltl\\site\\llib" ))<br><br>(custom-set-variables<br> ;; custom-set-variables was added by Custom.<br> ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.<br> ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.<br> ;; If there is more than one,
they won't work right.<br> '(exec-path (quote ( "." "D:/Emacs/bin" "D:/bin/win32/gs/gs8.54/bin" "C:/Program Files/Adobe/Acrobat 7.0/Reader/" "D:/GnuWin32/bin" "D:/bin/win32" "D:/bin/win32/dviout")))) <br><br>I edited out some things for readability but think I have all the TeXLive related things.<br><br>As it stands, if I try to typeset <br>texmf-doc/doc/english/guide-to-latex/demodoc.tex<br>I get errors regarding latex.fmt not found. Output is produced if I remove the \usepackage lines <br>in the header. Possibly related is the fact that I cannot used dviout. It looks for fonts on the C drive and the F drive, which was the MO disk on which I prepared the contents of my DVD. Windvi seems <br>to work and produces a page that is narrower and taller than my text, making me think that my <br>conversion to letter default worked and windvi might work when I fix the arguments with which emacs is calling it. Also, I cannot get acrobat to launch as a pdf
viewer from emacs. <br><br>I hope this helps, and I will post more if I learn more before others can pitch in. <br>-Poti<br><br><b><i>Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> instead I can use my own<br> private G drive which has limited space for me to use.<br><br>What it needs space for should be only the .fmt files, which should add<br>up to a few megabytes (depending on how many you need). If you have<br>that much available, it should be possible to work it out. If not, the<br>only alternative would be to prepare your own CD or DVD with the .fmt<br>files on it, so that TeX can run entirely from that. Although there's<br>been some discussion of this, I'm not aware of any actual distributions<br>that have been created.<br><br>In general, I'm not sure how the Windows installation deals with running<br>"live" like this.<br><br>Sorry I
can't be more help,<br>karl<br><br></blockquote><br><p> 
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