Setting a Path to Dropbox Files (FYI)

[Philip Taylor]

Colin Ramsay wrote:

> I just noticed that TL 2019 cautions against making changes to file ... /2019/texmf-dist/web2c/texmf.cnf
> Instead, they recommend adding the local path to the file ... /2019/ texmf.cnf
> I reversed my changes to the former file and added them to the latter file and, again, it works.

Yes, that is what Zdeněk  was recommending when he wrote

> You should have a texmf.cnf file in the root TL tree for each year which contains no definitions as default. You just add something like:
>
> TEXMFLOCAL = C/path/to/my/dropbox/texmf-local

/Philip Taylor/
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