From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/35982 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Pascal de Bruijn Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: OpenType typescripts Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 18:03:09 +0200 Message-ID: <1187020989.6269.4.camel@carnifex> References: <1186938744.8713.10.camel@carnifex> <46BF4756.9090209@wxs.nl> <1186944989.6019.7.camel@carnifex> <46BF5BA8.6030208@wxs.nl> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1187021018 12452 80.91.229.12 (13 Aug 2007 16:03:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 16:03:38 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Mon Aug 13 18:03:35 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IKcOE-0004sQ-Of for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Mon, 13 Aug 2007 18:03:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 359DF203EF; Mon, 13 Aug 2007 18:03:32 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 23841-06-5; Mon, 13 Aug 2007 18:03:19 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0397F203DF; Mon, 13 Aug 2007 18:03:19 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA331203DF for ; Mon, 13 Aug 2007 18:03:16 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 23841-06-4 for ; Mon, 13 Aug 2007 18:03:13 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.172]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8D0A203B2 for ; Mon, 13 Aug 2007 18:03:13 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id h2so600005ugf for ; Mon, 13 Aug 2007 09:03:13 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.66.239.2 with SMTP id m2mr5525444ugh.1187020992238; Mon, 13 Aug 2007 09:03:12 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from ?192.168.9.9? ( [213.84.213.170]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id y37sm11068089iky.2007.08.13.09.03.09 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 13 Aug 2007 09:03:10 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <46BF5BA8.6030208@wxs.nl> X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.1 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:35982 Archived-At: On Sun, 2007-08-12 at 21:12 +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: > Pascal de Bruijn wrote: > > > I still haven't got LuaTeX running properly. Something I wonder about is > > why all those installation instructions weren't executed before creating > > the tarballs. > > well, taco and i and a few others have mkiv running fro quite a while no > (before it went beta) ... the problem is that we cannot foresee how > users have set up their system I understand... Hiring a psychic probably isn't an option. However if you take a look at TeX live, you'll see that they just deliver almost everything them selves... So why not include lua and lcdf-typetools precompiled with ConTeXt. Have everything statically compiled so it'll just work. This isn't pretty... But it'll work... > > the biggest issue is that > > (1) luatex needs a cache path and users may have conflicting demands > (2) luatex needs lua code to start up and therefore be ablt to find it > > > I understand this is a beta. But making the installation less complex > > might get you more testers. > > well, once it runt it runs ... tex has never been easy to install and we > cannot change everything at once True... > > > I should probably reread the docs, and put some more effort into it. > > guess so > -- http://blog.pcode.nl/ http://www.linkselente.nl/ ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________