On Thu, 7 Jul 2011, Andre Van Ryckeghem wrote:
Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2011 08:38:45 +0200
From: Andre Van Ryckeghem <[email protected]>
Reply-To: Werner Icking Music Archive <[email protected]>
To: Werner Icking Music Archive <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Tex-music] MusiXTeX file locations in Windows
1. In case (1), will the old MusiXTeX files still be there?
If musixtex is installed with the batch files (or with the batch
files as an example), then the old musixtex files will be there
(they are in musixtexmf).
I think, the musixtexmf dir must be redefined in miktex as a root
dir.
2. In case (2) is there any better choice than to completely redo
the entire
MusiXTeX (TDS-compliant) installation process?
We could make a batch file that copy only the miktex files, simply
overwriting the old ones in musixtex.
3. Is there any better way to upgrade MiKTeX (while keeping the
same
MusiXTeX) than either case (1) or case (2)?
We don't know which files in miktex are updated, the simpliest way
is copy all tne necessary files.
Question: should we left out the pdf musix.map in the installation
procedure, as stated in previous mail in the list?
Andre
I believe there IS a better answer to (3), and unless I
misunderstood something, it is the official recommendation of
MiKTeX:
(1) create a subfolder 'localmiktex' in which to put all
your personal files -- in our case that means all
MusiXTeX stuff -- in the subfolder localmiktex of your
MiKTeX installation (where ever you have installed
MiKTeX; for me it happens to be the installation
default 'C:\programs\MiKTeX_2.7')
[ If you are uncertain where that subfolder should be,
look in the submenu 'roots' of the 'MiKTeX settings'
menu; the correct folder level should be a subfolder
of whatever is shown there as 'settings' ]
(2) enter the full name of your localmiktex in the
roots - settings . You will see the message:
`The list of root directories. The order in the list
determines the order in which files are searched'.
NB: depending on the MiKTeX version, I have not always
managed to put localmiktex in the order I wanted
(does anybody know how to achieve that in MiKTeX
2.9 ??
(3) refresh the FNDB (File Name Data Base).
After you have done that, all MiKTeX updates will leave the file
structure (of localmiktex) and all its files untouched.
When you uninstall MiKTeX, you are given an option to "tidy up
thoroughly". In both cases ("tidy up" or not) the uninstall
procedure will say exactly which folders it will delete and
which not, so you will know exactly what you are doing.
If you tidy up thoroughly -- probably the wise option -- ,
you will have to move the localmiktex folder to somewhere
outside of the MiKTeX realm before uninstalling MiKTeX.
PS: From the logic of the whole MiKTeX setup, it looks to me
as if it were possible to set localmitex (i.e. all of
MusiXTeX!) OUTSIDE THE REALM of MiKTeX, --- as long as you
enter the folder name of that in the MiKTeX roots menu .
Logically this could save the localmiktex (i.e. MusiXTeX) from
destruction when MiKTeX is uninstalled; but I havn't tried
that out. Has anybody done so? THAT option, if feasible,
would be the real solution to all these problems, at least
IMHO.
ccn.
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