[fptex] can one capture an environmental variable within a new
command in latex?
Luis A Escobar
luis at lsu.edu
Tue Feb 4 10:47:38 CET 2003
Heiko, thank you for the help.
I will try your suggestion.
Regards, Luis A
Heiko Oberdiek <oberdiek at uni-freiburg.de>@tug.org on 02/03/2003 03:59:22 PM
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Subject: Re: [fptex] can one capture an environmental variable within a
new command in latex?
On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 02:24:44PM -0600, Luis A Escobar wrote:
> I would like to write a newcommand which captures an environmental
> variable defined in a windows environment. This could help me to
> write latex document that depend on environmental variables but which
> are basically machine independent in terms of paths, location of
> newcommands, figures, etc. Something like (but
>
> \newcommand{mypath}{\getenv{\$HOME}}
You can use the \write18-feature to call system commands,
write it to a file and read this by TeX.
\immediate\write18{echo %HOME%>env.tex}
(you have to enable the feature, eg. on the command line
latex -shell-escape
Yours sincerely
Heiko <oberdiek at uni-freiburg.de>
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