[pdftex] kpathsea environment variables

Frank Küster frank at kuesterei.ch
Tue Sep 6 16:24:08 CEST 2005


karl at freefriends.org (Karl Berry) wrote:

> Anyway, before actually making changes, I'm not sure environment
> variables are enough (as I believe Thomas also mentioned).  In practice,
> most values are set in the texmf.cnf config file, not via environment
> variables.
>
> So, Geoff, what are you really trying to do?  Can you give any more
> details?

Geoff, maybe all you need is the list of recognized formats and
suffixes, as displayed by "kpsewhich --help"?

>     I'm Cc'ing Karl who's doing much of this work.
>
> I am not working on the new (or current for that matter) kpathsea at
> all.  As far as I know, Olaf Weber (the current maintainer) is the only
> person writing the code.

Sorry, I mixed this up.  I should be working instead of writing too many
mails without thinking too less.

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer



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