Re: ConTeXt Minimals on Mac

["Charles P. Schaum" <verbo.solo@sbcglobal.net>]

Open Applications/Utilities/Terminal from the finder

Type (or cut n paste from Mail/Entourage) and don't put a carriage
return between these lines (they are wrapped automatically)

chmod a+x
Users/alancbowen/Library/TeXShop/Engines/ConTeXtMinimals.engine

If that fails - and it should not - try:

sudo chmod a+x
Users/alancbowen/Library/TeXShop/Engines/ConTeXtMinimals.engine


You can substitute:

chmod a+x ~/Library/TeXShop/Engines/ConTeXtMinimals.engine

for the above path, and you can opt to do

chmod u+x ~/Library/TeXShop/Engines/ConTeXtMinimals.engine

when only you should execute it or

chmod g+x ~/Library/TeXShop/Engines/ConTeXtMinimals.engine

if anyone in your group can execute it

or you can be "typical" and say

chmod 775 ~/Library/TeXShop/Engines/ConTeXtMinimals.engine

and that will make everyone executable and you/your group read-writable.
Since you are using UNIX (as Mac OS X proudly touts) you might want to
snag a reference on shell scripting and basic UNIX commands. Welcome to
the world beyond Aqua.

That should do it.

Charles

On Sat, 2008-08-23 at 09:23 -0400, Alan Bowen wrote:
> I have installed the Context Minimals following the newbie
> instructions on the wiki at contextgarden for Mac users.
> 
> 
> The instructions themselves are clear but should perhaps be updated:
> • the file originally downloaded is first-setup.sh not
>  first-setup.tsh
> • to execute this file run ./first-setup.sh not first-setup.sh (at
> least, the former worked and did not return a “command not found”
> message). 
> 
> 
> I also configured TeXShop as instructed. But now when I try to typeset
> a file, I get the error message:
> Users/alancbowen/Library/TeXShop/Engines/ConTeXtMinimals.engine does
> not have the executable bit set.
> 
> 
> How can I fix this?
> 
> 
> Alan
> 
> 
> Note:  I am running Mac OS X 10.5.4.
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