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citaiton from Reinhard Kotucha
'''Hint for MikTeX users:''' The counterpart to <tt>texmf.cnf</tt> is <tt>miktex.ini</tt>.
== Location and priority of texmf.cnf files ==
Assuming that you have your distribution in /usr/local/texlive/2008, the following texmf.cnf files are read (in this order) if they exist:
# /usr/local/texlive/2008/bin/x86_64-linux/texmf.cnf
# /usr/local/texlive/2008/bin/texmf.cnf
# /usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf.cnf
# /usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf
Variables you set in a particular file are *not* overwritten by files
which are read later.
The default is (4). If you have to customize texmf.cnf, the best thing
you can do is to put only the variables you want to change into (3).
(1) is quite useful for system dependent configuration. On
multi-platform installations you could create a file
/usr/local/texlive/2008/bin/win32/texmf.cnf on the server which
contains the single line
OSFONTDIR = $SystemRoot/Fonts
and this only affects Windows clients, even if (3) contains the line
OSFONTDIR = /usr/share/fonts.
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