Re: TeX-macro-global/--with-tex-input-dirs

Jan-Ake Larsson <[email protected]> writes:

> David Kastrup wrote:
>> b) load our preview.sty with an explicit path.  In this case, it will
>> not be easy for our preview.sty to find the files like prlabels.def
>> for its own options.
>
> b) Can't we hardcode the installation directory? Hummmmm. Not in
> XEmacs, probably, since this is most easy to do at configure time. Not
> at XEmacs-package install time. Something like
> -------------------
> \DeclareOption*
>    {\InputIfFileExists{@TEXINSTALLDIR@pr\CurrentOption.def}{}{\OptionNotUsed}}
> -------------------
>
>> a) fiddle with TEXINPUTS.  In this case, our extension files
>> prlabels.def and similar will be found by the foreign preview.sty even
>> when calling it with an explicit path.
>
> a) How about fiddling with TEXINPUTS only if our preview.sty is to be
> loaded?

It is LaTeX that figures out whether preview.sty needs to get loaded
explicitly.  LaTeX can't fiddle with TEXINPUTS.  We'd probably have to
pass the directory information in some manner to preview.sty.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum