LuaTex on Windows PCs

LuaTex on Windows PCs

[Nigel King]

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Hi All,
I have been using ConTeXt on Macs for >20 years. Having written a particular piece of code for others to operate who have PCs, I am now stuck. 

I upgraded to LuaTeX some time ago as recommended on this list.

IT do not seem to be able to install a working version of LuaTeX on PCs. I have directed them to ConTeXt Garden but they have had no luck.

Do any of you have guaranteed pointers to a simple installation on PCs? Simple editing and creating (from ConTeXt) the PDFs is all that is required.

Thanks
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Nigel
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Re: LuaTex on Windows PCs

[Hans Hagen]

On 3/4/2019 4:58 PM, Nigel King wrote:
> Hi All,
> I have been using ConTeXt on Macs for >20 years. Having written a 
> particular piece of code for others to operate who have PCs, I am now 
> stuck.
> 
> I upgraded to LuaTeX some time ago as recommended on this list.
> 
> IT do not seem to be able to install a working version of LuaTeX on PCs. 
> I have directed them to ConTeXt Garden but they have had no luck.
> 
> Do any of you have guaranteed pointers to a simple installation on PCs? 
> Simple editing and creating (from ConTeXt) the PDFs is all that is required.
The installation page really needs an update ... the starting point is 
here:

https://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_Standalone

download

http://minimals.contextgarden.net/setup/context-setup-mswin.zip
http://minimals.contextgarden.net/setup/context-setup-win64.zip

unzip someplace, then run

first-setup.bat

etc

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Re: LuaTex on Windows PCs

[Jan Tosovsky]

On 2019-03-04 Hans Hagen wrote:
> On 3/4/2019 4:58 PM, Nigel King wrote:
> > IT do not seem to be able to install a working version of LuaTeX on PCs.
> > I have directed them to ConTeXt Garden but they have had no luck.
> >
> 
> https://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_Standalone
> 
> download
> 
> http://minimals.contextgarden.net/setup/context-setup-mswin.zip
> http://minimals.contextgarden.net/setup/context-setup-win64.zip
> 
> unzip someplace, then run
> 
> first-setup.bat
> 

I suppose the problematic part is rsync here, which communicates via unusual port number 873. It is typically disabled in company environments.

I encountered this few years ago. Now I've found a workaround for this (but not tested):
https://www.poftut.com/specify-different-port-for-linux-rsync/

Jan

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