> Am 20.10.2021 um 16:38 schrieb Hans Hagen <j.ha...@xs4all.nl>:
> 
> On 10/20/2021 4:21 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context wrote:
>>> Am 20.10.2021 um 10:10 schrieb Hans Hagen <j.ha...@xs4all.nl>:
>>>> Where is the order defined? (Not in TDS.)
>>> mtxrun --show-variables
>> Oh, yes, of course. Thank you!
>>> etc ... it's all TDS
>> I meant, the order of trees is not defined in the TDS proposal 
>> (http://tug.org/tds/tds.html).
> it's kind of defined by texlive but there it changed over time, (main, dist, 
> local, var, home etc and also unix distributers add / patch these variables; 
> some definitions and order can be hard coded in the binary part that deals 
> with kpse file lookup)

I thought so...

> anyway, in context it hasn't changed much and we don’t use the kpse library 
> in mkiv/lmtx so we're not affected by changes; you can of course add more of 
> use a different order (in a local configuration file in e.g. texmf-local)
> 
> (there are plenty of trackers for checking how files are looked up)

I just wanted to give an overview in my book what is where in all those trees, 
and then I recognized I didn’t know the search order.
(Yes, I’m in ConTeXt book writing mode again.)

Hraban
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