On Sat, 9 Jul 2011, Cornelius C. Noack wrote:
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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.
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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.
PostScript: By now I have checked the last point.
4 conclusions:
(a) you can have the localmiktex folder (MusiXTeX for
our purpose) anywhere OUTSIDE the MiKTeX 'Master'
folder (which is, e.g., C:\programs\MiKTeX_2.9) ;
as long as you enter it in the 'roots' window
in the MiKTeX 'settings' menue,
(b) you can give it any name (i.e. `MusiXTeX' would be
quite OK) --- it doesn't have to be called
'localmiktex' ,
(c) when this file is correctly entered in the 'roots'
part of the settings menu, it will be entered in the
MiKTeX data base and thus be available in MiKTeX in
the usual way (after you have refreshed the FNDB, of
course),
(d) if the folder is OUTSIDE the MiKTeX folder, it will
NOT BE TOUCHED when MiKTeX is deinstalled.
Facit: the solution of the problem we have been dealing with
is even simpler than I had suggested in my previous message.
If anything is wrong with my conclusions, please protest!
ccn.
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Prof.Dr. Cornelius C. Noack
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