Setting a Path to Dropbox Files (FYI)

[Colin Ramsay]

Thanks all. Sorry I did not read Zdenek's email more carefully.

-----Original Message-----
From: Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wagner at gmail.com> 
Sent: Sunday, April 26, 2020 5:03 AM
To: Colin Ramsay <cramsay at unl.edu>
Cc: Philip Taylor <P.Taylor at hellenic-institute.uk>; Christopher W. Ryan <cryan at binghamton.edu>; ΤeXhax <texhax at tug.org>; tex-live at tug.org
Subject: Re: Setting a Path to Dropbox Files (FYI)

That's what I wrote in my answer. If you do not want to read the long documentation, you just look how it is done in the distribution file and then write a similar line to the (empty as default) file in the TL root.

Zdeněk Wagner
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ne 26. 4. 2020 v 4:10 odesílatel Colin Ramsay <cramsay at unl.edu> napsal:
>
> Hi all,
>
> 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.
>
> Colin
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wagner at gmail.com>
> Sent: Saturday, April 25, 2020 11:52 AM
> To: Philip Taylor <P.Taylor at hellenic-institute.uk>
> Cc: Colin Ramsay <cramsay at unl.edu>; Christopher W. Ryan 
> <cryan at binghamton.edu>; ΤeXhax <texhax at tug.org>; tex-live at tug.org
> Subject: Re: Setting a Path to Dropbox Files
>
> Hi all,
>
> file texmf-dist/web2c/texmf.cnf (or with backslashes in Windows) defines the location of texmf-local as:
>
> % Local additions to the distribution trees.
> TEXMFLOCAL = $SELFAUTOGRANDPARENT/texmf-local
>
> 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
>
> and it should work. You can copy the file template to your dropbox so 
> that you can easily configure all your computers. When upgrading TL to 
> 2020, you just copy your local texmf.cnf from the 2019 root to the
> 2020 root.
>
> Zdeněk Wagner
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> so 25. 4. 2020 v 18:42 odesílatel Philip Taylor <P.Taylor at hellenic-institute.uk> napsal:
> >
> > Colin Ramsay wrote:
> >
> > I have >= 2 Windows 10 computers that I use regularly for Latex stuff and I have my latex documents in several folders on Dropbox.
> >
> >
> >
> > I also have a texmf-local folder that contains my personal definitions, style files, etc., located on Dropbox.
> >
> >
> >
> > Is there a way to get Texlive 2019 to search the Dropbox texmf-local folder?
> >
> >
> >
> > I want to keep my definitions etc in a central folder that is accessible to Texlive on any machine that has my Dropbox folder. I do not want to put these definitions etc in the folders containing the main files.
> >
> >
> >
> > Your advice would be helpful.
> >
> >
> >
> > Colin
> >
> >
> > I do not know whether it is possible to retrospectively change the install-time definition of the location of TeXMF-Local; I always specify the location explicitly when installing a new version of TeX Live, and always the same location, so that the location of TeXMF-Local is independent of the version of TeX Live used.  Thus (for example), I might install TeX Live 2019 to X:\TeX\Live\2019 and TeX Live 2020 to X:\TeX\Live\2020, but the location for TeXMF-Local would be the same for both :  X:\TeX\Live\TeX-MF\Local.  Clearly if you were to re-install TeX Live 2019 you could specify that the root of TeXMF-Local is to lie within your local Dropbox hierarchy, but once installed I do not know how (if at all) you could re-specify it other than through an environment variable.  A TeX Live expert would be able to advise here, so the TeX Live list cc'd.
> >
> > Philip Taylor