Re: [therion-users] TeX paths

[Stacho Mudrak]

After reinstalling therion on several computers several times, I agree, that
installation process should be easier (without setting environment
variables). It means doing following things:

1. Therion should automatically search for other executable files it is
using, if it can not find them with default settings. This is not very
difficult task, and would work on 90% of all computers, because we can
assume, that thpdf and theps2pdf are located where therion.exe is. Perl and
TeX usually works from command line on UNIX, on Win32, there are may be five
common installations . . .

2. The THERION environment variable could be ignored, if we will assume some
default location for therion library (e.g. /usr/share/therion or C:\Program
files\therion\lib). As far as I know, on Linux is standard /usr/share or
/usr/local/share. Which would be better?

3. The TeX's (MPINPUTS and TEXINPUTS) could be probably written somehow to
tex and mp file. I can write instead "input therion.tex" filename with the
path "input /usr/local/share/therion/lib/tex/therion.tex". Than no TEXINPUTS
is needed. Probably the same can be somehow done with MPOST.

Do you have any other ideas?

S.