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authorKarl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>2021-09-18 14:30:27 +0000
committerKarl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>2021-09-18 14:30:27 +0000
commitb748c0bccc3d8f01f4f730c594884c15f419eeee (patch)
tree39f7657b902764c670c648d81e102b0789440427
parent29fc9a6f30ccb4c3d350b9a95845c77dc964311c (diff)
more clues about PATH setting
git-svn-id: svn://tug.org/texlive/trunk@60536 c570f23f-e606-0410-a88d-b1316a301751
-rw-r--r--Master/texmf-dist/doc/texlive/texlive-en/texlive-en.tex15
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/texlive/texlive-en/texlive-en.tex b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/texlive/texlive-en/texlive-en.tex
index fc594df15fb..091fc5923f6 100644
--- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/texlive/texlive-en/texlive-en.tex
+++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/texlive/texlive-en/texlive-en.tex
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
\url{https://tug.org/texlive/}
}
-\date{June 2021}
+\date{September 2021}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
@@ -1032,7 +1032,7 @@ them. The man pages might be found automatically after the addition to
\envname{PATH}.
For Bourne-compatible shells such as \prog{bash}, and using Intel x86
-GNU/Linux and a default directory setup as an example, the file to edit
+GNU/Linux and the \TL\ default directory setup as an example, the file to edit
might be \filename{$HOME/.profile} (or another file sourced by
\filename{.profile}), and the lines to add would look like this:
@@ -1051,8 +1051,13 @@ setenv MANPATH /usr/local/texlive/2021/texmf-dist/doc/man:$MANPATH
setenv INFOPATH /usr/local/texlive/2021/texmf-dist/doc/info:$INFOPATH
\end{sverbatim}
-If you already have settings somewhere in your ``dot'' files, naturally
-the \TL\ directories should be merged in as appropriate.
+If you're not on an \code{x86\_64-linux} platform, use the appropriate
+platform name; similarly, if you didn't install in the default
+directory, change the directory name. The \TL\ installer reports the
+full lines to use at the end of installation.
+
+If you already have \envname{PATH} settings somewhere in your startup
+files, merge in the \TL\ directories as you see fit.
\subsubsection{Environment variables: Global configuration}
@@ -2188,7 +2193,7 @@ The following list summarizes the special characters and constructs in
\item[\CODE{,}] Separates items in brace expansion.
\item[\CODE{//}] Subdirectory expansion (can occur anywhere in
a path, except at its beginning).
-\item[\CODE{\%{\rm\ or }\#}] Start of comment.
+\item[\CODE{\%{\rm\ and }\#}] Start of comment.
\item[\CODE{\bs}] At the end of a line, continuation character to allow
multi-line entries.
\item[\CODE{!!}] Search \emph{only} database to locate file, \emph{do