Hi Don, My used solution for (3) is as follows:
I have two TeX directories. The first is the normal MikTeX installation directory "c:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.8", the second one is my personal "d:\<personal folder structure>\localtexmf". The structure below this second directory is respectively can be the same as in "normal" (TDS-compliant) TeX folders. As example I attached a screenshot of my folder structure ("localtexmf.pdf"). In the second directory I put everything that is not part of MikTeX installation or it's packages, or that is adjusted by myself or someone else (e.g. personal letter styles, MusiXTeX from WIMA, adjusted barcode styles, etc.). In MikTeX's settings dialog (Start -> Programs -> MikTeX 2.8 -> Maintenance -> Settings) on tab "Roots" I've added this localtexmf directory. After refreshing the file name database and updating all format files on "General" tab (maybe the last step isn't necessary) I was able to use all my personally installed TeX packages/files/etc..
So if you use your TeX installation this way you're completely independent of your MikTeX installation path, because during deinstallation of MikTeX your "localtexmf" folder can be skipped (I believe you will be asked whether you want to delete "localtexmf" content too), and in every new MikTeX installation you simply make the same "localtexmf" content available by adding this folder using the setting dialog.
For me this solution works very well, I've updated from MikTeX 2.7 to 2.8 this way without any problems.
Hopefully this will be helpful to you. Greetings, Dieter Suffenplan Am 07.07.2011 03:21, schrieb Don Simons:
I know I could get answers to some of my questions by doing some testing, but I thought maybe someone could respond authoritatively enough to save me that trouble. The basic question here is how to avoid reinstalling MusiXTeX if you upgrade your TeX system. Suppose you are using Windoze and MiKTeX 2.8, with TeX root path is the default c:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.8 . If you had followed the default MusiXTeX installation procedure given in mxinsuse.pdf which is included with musixtex.zip (1.15) in WIMA, your MusiXTeX files would be somewhere else. Now to upgrade to MiKTeX 2.9, no matter how you replace the TeX files, MusiXTeX would be intact---still somewhere else---and at most you'd have update some path variables and (new) TeX config files. On the other hand, suppose you had followed the instructions included with the CTAN, TDS-compliant MusiXTeX version. Then as I understand it the MusiXTeX files would be intermingled with the TeX files in various subfolders below the TeX root at c:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.8 . Now it seems there are several options, among them (1) Rename the existing root to MiKTeX 2.9; then perform the default MiKTeX 2.9 installation; or (2) Use the new default MiKTeX root c:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9. Questions: 1. In case (1), will the old MusiXTeX files still be there? 2. In case (2) is there any better choice than to completely redo the entire MusiXTeX (TDS-compliant) installation process? 3. Is there any better way to upgrade MiKTeX (while keeping the same MusiXTeX) than either case (1) or case (2)? --Don Simons ------------------------------- [email protected] mailing list If you want to unsubscribe or look at the archives, go to http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
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