On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 10:13:34PM +0200, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Am 15.10.2011 19:31, schrieb Enrico Forestieri: > > >>As I understand the explanation TEXINPUTS is an _environment > >>variable_ consisting of a list of paths. So why is it then also a > >>_prefix_? > > > >Because TEXINPUTS may already be set in the environment, > > I must admit that I then did not yet understand the concept of TEXINPUTS. > For example PATH is an environment variable and I therefore find it > in Windows' environment variable list. LyX's PATH prefix is a prefix > to this variable. But there is no environment variable named > TEXINPUTS in Windows. Googling around gives me that it is a variable > of LaTeX and can be set as Windows variable which is then used by > LaTeX. But even if I add something to TEXINPUTS in the LyX > preferences, I don't get a Windows environment variable. So where > does LyX stores it so that LaTeX can access it?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environment_variable#Local_to_process > >>Shouldn't the name of the entry in the preferences be > >>changed from "prefix" to "variable" or "directories"? > > > >No. > > OK. But what about my other proposal? Which one? -- Enrico
