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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Colin Ramsay wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext">I have >=
2 Windows 10 computers that I use regularly for Latex stuff
and I have my latex documents in several folders on Dropbox.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext">I also have
a texmf-local folder that contains my personal definitions,
style files, etc., located on Dropbox.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext">Is there a
way to get Texlive 2019 to search the Dropbox texmf-local
folder?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext">Your advice
would be helpful.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext">Colin</span><br>
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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.<br>
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<i>Philip Taylor</i><br>
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