diff --git a/eoatex2imxml.py b/eoatex2imxml.py
index abde979..8467561 100755
--- a/eoatex2imxml.py
+++ b/eoatex2imxml.py
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python3
 # -*- coding: utf-8; mode: python -*-
-# Time-stamp: <2018-02-13 14:25:58 (kthoden)>
+# Time-stamp: <2018-03-15 14:16:56 (kthoden)>
 
 # license?
 __version__= "1.0"
@@ -51,10 +51,9 @@
 if options.CONFIG_FILE is not None:
     CONFIG_FILE = os.path.abspath(options.CONFIG_FILE)
 else:
-    # CONFIG_FILE = "/Users/kthoden/EOAKram/dev/EOASkripts/Skripten/eoaconvert.cfg"
     CONFIG_FILE = os.path.dirname(sys.argv[0]) + "/config/eoaconvert.cfg"
 
-print("The configfile is ", CONFIG_FILE)
+logging.debug("The configfile is ", CONFIG_FILE)
 
 # current biber is not compatible with this code
 # switch TeX distribution to TeXLive2016,
diff --git a/tei2imxml.py b/tei2imxml.py
index 38d1c9e..4dee701 100644
--- a/tei2imxml.py
+++ b/tei2imxml.py
@@ -22,17 +22,20 @@
 # assign ids top to bottom for the following elements:
 # div1 div2 div3 note item table EOAfigure EOAequation formula theorem
 
+CONFIG_FILE = os.path.dirname(sys.argv[0]) + os.path.sep + "config" + os.path.sep +"eoaconvert.cfg"
+# Reading the configuration file
+CONFIG = configparser.ConfigParser()
+CONFIG.read(CONFIG_FILE)
+
 logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO, format=' %(asctime)s - %(levelname)s - %(message)s')
 
 ns_tei = "http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"
 NS_MAP = {"t" : ns_tei}
 
 TMP_DIR = os.path.expanduser("tmp_files")
-CSL_FILE = "/Users/kthoden/EOAKram/dev/eoa-csl/eoa.csl"
 OUTPUT_DIR = os.path.expanduser("CONVERT")
 
-# this is duplicated from libeoaconvert
-dictLangFootnotes = {"it" : "Note a piè pagina", "fr" : "notes en bas de page", "de" : "Fußnoten", "en" : "Footnotes"}
+CSL_FILE = CONFIG['Auxiliaries']['CSL_FILE']
 
 def get_publication_info(xml_tree):
     """Query the TEI document for metadata fields.