> Hi Tzafrir,
>
> >
> > My temporary workaround is to place my heblatex files in
> > texmf/generic/0babel_hebrew . In the long run, I'll have to have them
> > replace the current files in babel.
> >
>
> I know it's a bit off topic, but kpathsea.info says that
>
> Two or more consecutive slashes in a path element following a
> directory D is replaced by all subdirectories of D: first those
> subdirectories directly under D, then the subsubdirectories under
> those, and so on. At each level, the order in which the directories are
> searched is unspecified. (It's "directory order", and definitely not
> alphabetical.)
>
> So beware - it is no promissed that 0babel is found first.
The standard does not guarantee this, however it seems that the
implementation does: mktexlsr in tetex is a shell script and it seems to
use shell globing.
I don't intend for this to be a permament solution.
>
> I tried to tackle this problem by installing into /usr/local/share/texmf
> and then add this dir to my /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf configuration file.
> For some reason this did not work, as a previous mail from me to this list
> shows.
I don't want to change any existing config file from the tetex package. If
I decide to change the tetex package, I would simply remove the heblatex
files from texmf/tex/generic/babel .
>
> My question still stands: why even when /usr/local/share/texmf appears before
> the main path in this file's
> TEXMF = {!!$TEXMFLOCAL,!!$TEXMFMAIN}
> `local' files do not override `main' files?
Can you give a concrete example? What about the values of the environment
vars TEXMF and SYSTEXMF ?
