Re: Hopefully a simple latex question.

[M G Berberich]

Hello,

Am Dienstag, den 03. Juli 2001 05:07:03 schrieb Shaul Karl:
> [05:00:24 heblatex]$ grep -A2 'override TEXMF' /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf
> % You can set an environment variable to override TEXMF if you're testing
> % a new TeX tree, without changing anything else.
> % 
> [05:00:32 heblatex]$ 
> 
> Indeed I need to override TEXMF, or that is what I think:
> 
> [05:00:32 heblatex]$ TEXMF=/var/lib/texmf/:./:../hebfonts/ elatex hebrew.dtx
> This is e-TeX, Version 3.14159-2.1 (Web2C 7.3.1)
> I can't find the format file `elatex.efmt'!
> [05:01:43 heblatex]$ 
> 
> Obviously I am doing something wrong, but I can not see that.
> Any help is appreciated. 

Extrapolating from other TeX-Environments I suppose you have to add a
"superfluous" colon, to get the standard-path searched to:

TEXMF=/var/lib/texmf/:./:../hebfonts/: elatex hebrew.dtx
                                     ^

        MfG
        bmg

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