Bug#396826: tex-common: Please make section 2.4 of TeX-on-Debian more precise about user settings
Ralf Stubner <ralf.stubner@physik.uni-erlangen.de> wrote:
> One problem is that texmf.cnf is only searched along the compiled in
> TEXMFCNF (not TEXMFCONFIG). At least as long as it is not defined in the
> environment. So in order for the above to work, one would also need
>
> export TEXMFCNF=$HOME/.texmf-config/web2c:
>
> (the final colon includes the system wide default).
--- doc/TeX-on-Debian.sgml (Revision 1926)
+++ doc/TeX-on-Debian.sgml (Arbeitskopie)
@@ -546,11 +546,25 @@
<p>
<prgn>update-texmf</prgn> is only available for root; if a
user wants to maintain their own <file>texmf.cnf</file>,
- they can put it into <tt><var>TEXMFCONFIG</var>/web2c</tt> and must
- manually edit it. Since all <file>texmf.cnf</file> files
- are read, with earlier definitions taking precedence over
- later ones, it is best to keep only a minimal set of
- definitions in the user-specific file.
+ they can put it into <tt><var>TEXMFCONFIG</var>/web2c</tt>
+ and must manually edit it. However, in order for it to be
+ found, they need to set an environment
+ variable
+ <footnote>
+ The reason for this is that the search
+ path for <file>texmf.cnf</file>, which is the file that
+ defines all search paths for later use, naturally cannot
+ be specified in the file, but is fixed at compile
+ time.
+ </footnote>:
+<example>
+export TEXMFCNF=$HOME/.texmf-config/web2c:
+</example>
+ The final colon includes the system wide default. Since
+ all <file>texmf.cnf</file> files are read, with earlier
+ definitions taking precedence over later ones, it is best
+ to keep only a minimal set of definitions in the
+ user-specific file.
</p>
<p>
--
Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
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