Re: Installing ConTeXt Minimals on a Mac

[Alan Bowen <acbowen@princeton.edu>]

On Sep 1, 2008, at 13;43,19 , Mojca Miklavec wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 7:27 PM, Alan Bowen <acbowen@princeton.edu>  
> wrote:
>> Mocja—
>> This is great. I now have access to the binaries in ConTeXtMinimals/ 
>> tex:
>> context --version
>> gives the right answer.
>> Alan
>>
>> On Sep 1, 2008, at 12;24,41 , Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>>
>> For setting HOMETEXMF you can help yourself, though it would be nice
>> if we provided a solution that worked out of the box. But I would  
>> like
>> to get a confirmation from Hans that it's OK to do that.
>>
>> I have modified the texmf.cnf in
>> ./Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf/web2c with the lines
>> export HOMETEXMF=~/Library/texmf
>> export
>> TEXMF='{$TEXMFHOME,$TEXMFLOCAL,!!$TEXMFOS,!!$TEXMFCONTEXT,!! 
>> $TEXMFEXTRA,!!$TEXMFMAIN}'
>> but ConTeXt still does not find my personal texmf folder
>
> I probably told you wrong, but:
> 1.) you have HOMETEXMF first and then TEXMFHOME: these need to be  
> equal
> 2.) unless you are following (3), don't modify the file in texmf/,  
> but create
>  /Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-local/web2c/texmf.cnf
> instead, else the file will be overwritten at first update
> 3.) even then I'm not completely sure, but I guess that environmental
> variables override settings in texmf.cnf, so you either need to
>  a) modify setuptex (rename it and run the renamed file instead of  
> setuptex)
>  b) only export PATH and not run setuptex at all; in that case values
> from texmf.cnf will be used
> - maybe you need to run "mktexlsr" or "luatools --generate"

I need to think about this and learn more.

>> The opening lines of the console read:
>> /Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/setuptex: line 83: cd:
>> /Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/context: No such file or directory
>
> Where does this "context" come from? From .engine file for TeXShop?
>
>> The argument "" is not a valid TEXROOT path.
>> There is no file "/texmf/tex/plain/base/plain.tex"
>> Setting "/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex" as TEXROOT instead.
>> TeXExec | processing document 'c_2007-10-04_Hannah.tex'
>> TeXExec | no ctx file found
>> TeXExec | tex processing method: context
>> TeXExec | TeX run 1
>> TeXExec | writing option file c_2007-10-04_Hannah.top
>> TeXExec | using randomseed 764
>> TeXExec | tex engine: pdftex
>> TeXExec | tex format: cont-en
>> This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.9-rc1 (Web2C 7.5.7)
>> \write18 enabled.
>> (/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-context/web2c/natural.tcx)
>> entering extended mode
>> (./c_2007-10-04_Hannah.tex
>> ConTeXt  ver: 2008.08.29 10:30 MKII  fmt: 2008.8.29  int: english/ 
>> english

This comes from the console window that TeXShop opens when it typesets  
a file.

>>
>
> Mojca
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