12.2 Environment variables
Ipe, ipetoipe, and iperender respect the following
environment variables:
- IPELATEXDIR
- the directory where Ipe runs Pdflatex.
- IPEFONTMAP
- the complete path of the font map, describing where
Ipe can find the 14 standard pdf fonts.
- IPEDEBUG
- set to 1 for debugging output.
- IPEANCIENTPDFTEX
- set this variable to use Pdftex versions older
than 1.40.
The Ipe program uses several additional environment variables:
- EDITOR
- external editor to use for editing text objects.
- IPESTYLES
- a list of directories, separated by semicolons on
Windows and colons otherwise, where Ipe looks for stylesheets, for
instance for the standard stylesheet basic.isy. You can write
_ (a single underscore) for the system-wide stylesheet directory.
If this variable is not set, the default consists of the system-wide
stylesheet directory, plus ~/.ipe/styles on Unix, plus
~/Library/Ipe/Styles on OS X.
- IPELETPATH
- a list of directories, separated by semicolons on
Windows and colons otherwise, containing ipelets. You can write _
(a single underscore) for the system-wide ipelet directory. If this
variable is not set, the default consists of the system-wide ipelet
directory, plus ~/.ipe/ipelets on Unix, plus
~/Library/Ipe/Ipelets on OS X.
- IPEICONDIR
- directory containing icons for the Ipe user interface.
- IPEDOCDIR
- directory containing Ipe documentation.
- IPELUAPATH
- path for searching for Ipe Lua code.