[tex-live] TEXINPUTS on windows

Reinhard Kotucha reinhard.kotucha at web.de
Fri Nov 5 16:45:38 CET 2010


On 5 November 2010 Lars Madsen wrote:

 > Akira Kakuto wrote:
 > > Dear Lars,
 > > 
 > >> Given a TL10 on windows and a user who has a dir with his own private 
 > >> packages, say C:\mytexstuff
 > >>
 > >> How do we add this to TEXINPUTS in TL10?
 > >>
 > >> MikTeX has a very easy interface for this, but I have no idea as to how 
 > >> one should add this on TL10. I assume it is texmf.cnf in texlive/2010/, 
 > > 
 > > You can add c:/mytexstuff// to TEXINPUTS.programname
 > > in the texmf.cnf, like
 > > TEXINPUTS.latex = .;$TEXMF/tex/{latex,generic,}//;c:/mytexstuff//
 > > 
 > > The easiest way may be to define an environment variable
 > > TEXINPUTS=c:/mytexstuff//;
 > > Don't forget the semicolon.
 > > 
 > > Akira
 > > 
 > 
 > why can't we just add
 > 
 > TEXINPUTS=c:/mytexstuff//;
 > 
 > to texmf.cnf?
 > 
 > If this is so complicated, I'd recommend adding a better interface
 > for this to the tlmgr TODO list.  This is one of the features I
 > like in MikTeX.
 >
 > We recommend TL to all our users because then we know they have exactly
 > the same tools (more or less)

Why doesn't he simply copy his files where they belong?

  kpsewhich --var-value=TEXMFHOME

This is documented already.

Regards,
  Reinhard

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