Re: [MiKTeX] can environment variables be used in miktexstartup.ini

[Rick P. <rp...@al...>]

> CommonInstall=${MIKTEX}
>
> or
>
> CommonInstall=$(MIKTEX)
>
> or
>
> CommonInstall=$MIKTEX

Unfortunately, none of these worked either. In all case, pdflatex is 
failing to find article.cls. If the full path name is used, e.g.,

CommonInstall=c:\miktex

there's no problem.


On 04/26/2013 01:30 PM, Christian Schenk wrote:
> On 4/26/2013 8:48 PM, Rick Pember wrote:
>> Is it possible to use Windows environment variables in
>> miktexstartup.ini, for example, to say something like
>>
>> CommonInstall=%MIKTEX%
>>
>> where MIKTEX=c:\miktex
>>
>> instead of
>>
>> CommonInstall=c:\miktex
>>
>> The syntax
>>
>> CommonInstall=%MIKTEX%
>>
>> didn't work. I also tried
>>
>> CommonInstall="%MIKTEX%"
>> CommonInstall=<MIKTEX>
>> CommonInstall="<MIKTEX>"
> Haven't tried it yet. But this should work:
>
> CommonInstall=${MIKTEX}
>
> or
>
> CommonInstall=$(MIKTEX)
>
> or
>
> CommonInstall=$MIKTEX
>
>
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