Re: ConTeXt on Mac?

[siep.kroonenberg@wkap.nl]

On 20 Mar, Michel Bovani wrote:
> At 21:47 +0100 20/03/01, H. Ramm wrote:
>>\startenthusiasm
>>Hey, you managed to get ConTeXt work on MacOS?
>>\stopenthusiasm
> 
> \startallegromanontroppo
> I just install the context archive in a tds directory, built a 
> cont-en format and test it with (very) simple demo files...
> \stopallegromanontroppo
> 
>>How? With OzTeX, CMacTeX or TeXtures?
> 
> with CmacTeX which is a web2c distrib, have a pdfetex engine and 
> support a \write18 command : I think it was the best challenger...
> moreover : the future version 3.7 will run on macOSX (3.7beta already exists).
> 
>>What about the Perl scripts?
> 
> I had very bad experiences last year with mac perl and, as Hans says 
> that use command line wad possible, I try it (I think that we can 
> expect an unix port of perl that will run on mac OSX terminal 
> anyway... also CMacTeX is Applescriptable, and may be it is an other 
> way).

According to the CPAN ports page, Perl 5.6 is a standard component of
Mac OS X. teTeX has been ported to Mac OS X too. Go to
darkwing.uoregon.edu/~koch/texshop/texshop.html for a urls (this url is
the homepage of graphical frondend to teTeX but also provides a compiled
teTeX itself) or go to ftp.nluug.nl/pub/comp/next/MacOSX

I don't yet have Mac OS X so I can say nothing on how well everything
works.

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Siep Kroonenberg
Kluwer Academic Publishers, Prepress Department
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