Re: Understanding expansion of TEXMFHOME

Enrico Gregorio schrieb:
Christian Mandel <c.mandel@xxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello,

I wonder how to get a second TDS tree in my home directory (properly). I
have a working solution, but I dont't understand why it behaves like it
does and maybe there's a better way ...

I use TeXLive 2008, and I have put the line

TEXMFHOME = ~/texmf,~/texmf-pub

in /usr/local/texlive/2008/texm.cnf. This works, but when doing

kpsexpand '$TEXMFHOME'

i get the answer

/home/chris/texmf,~/texmf-pub

so the first time the path gets expanded, the second time it doesn't.
Can that fact cause problems? Is this the right way to get a second TDS
tree in the home directory?

I need this, because one of the trees holds private files like .lco
(letter customization for KOMA-Script) and similar things (being under
version control), the second tree holds packages not shipped with
TeXLive (e. g. the cvs version of pgf/TikZ and bibLaTeX).

The separator should be a colon or a semicolon, not a comma.

You are right (if I understand the manual right), but that does not
change the odd behaviour of the expansion. Now,

kpsexpand '$TEXMFHOME'

leads to

/home/chris/texmf:~/texmf-pub

and

kpsexpand '$TEXMF'

to

{/home/chris/.texlive2008/texmf-config, \
/home/chris/.texlive2008/texmf-var,/home/chris/texmf:~/texmf-pub, \
!!/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-config, ...

Thanks, Chris
.

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