[Texmacs-dev] Re: TeXmacs

[Joris van der Hoeven]

> > > I have installed Cygwin and TeXLive on Windows XP - can I somehow make
> > > modifications to the TeXmacs installation, so I don't need to install all
> > > the TeX packages from cygwin but can use my working TeXLive installation
> > > instead?
> >
> > Unfortunately not that I know off...
> 
> Not even with an (maybe excessive) use of soft links? Exactly what
> TeX-files/directories under cygwin does TeXmacs require?

Unfortunately, I am not at all a specialist of Cygwin and TeXLive.

As to the TeX-dependencies, TeXmacs mainly needs a working installation
of Metafont and scripts for the automatic generation of fonts.
We also use BiBTeX for the generation of bibliographies (when needed).
The font-generation scripts can be MakeTeXTFM/MakeTeXPK or mktextfm/mktexpk.
We also try to find them in some standard directories.
For more details, you can take a look at the file src/Basic/System/dir.cc

Best wishes, Joris