Installing Modules with ConTeXt LMTX

Installing Modules with ConTeXt LMTX

[Sebastian Miele]

I want to try the t-letter module. I have a fresh install of ConTeXt
LMTX from today. The page https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Modules has
sections "Installation by hand" and "ConTeXt standalone", but no section
on ConTeXt LMTX.

The section on ConTeXt standalone mentions a --modules switch to
first-setup.sh in order to include modules. This cannot work with the
install.sh from ConTeXt LMTX, as it does not pass any command line
arguments to mtxrun. install.sh does have an empty by default variable
LMTXEXTRAS at the top, which is passed as --extras="$LMTXEXTRA" to
bin/mtx-install.lua near the bottom of the script. However, setting
LMTXEXTRAS=t-letter seems to not work.

Searching through the bin/mtx-install.lua for "modules" and "extras"
reveals that most probably neither flag is handled at all. However, the
helpinfo variable in bin/mtx-install.lua does mention the modules flag,
but not the extras flag.

Is there a way to install modules in ConTeXt LMTX not by hand?
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Re: Installing Modules with ConTeXt LMTX

[Marco Patzer]

On Mon, 01 Jun 2020 19:58:59 +0200
Sebastian Miele <sebastian.miele@gmail.com> wrote:

> I want to try the t-letter module. I have a fresh install of ConTeXt
> LMTX from today. The page https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Modules has
> sections "Installation by hand" and "ConTeXt standalone", but no
> section on ConTeXt LMTX.
> 
> The section on ConTeXt standalone mentions a --modules switch to
> first-setup.sh in order to include modules. This cannot work with the
> install.sh from ConTeXt LMTX, as it does not pass any command line
> arguments to mtxrun.

As far as I understand there is no built-in method. You have to
install them manually. Relevant thread:

  https://mailman.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2020/097022.html

Marco
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Re: Installing Modules with ConTeXt LMTX

[Sebastian Miele]

Marco Patzer <lists@homerow.info> writes:

> On Mon, 01 Jun 2020 19:58:59 +0200
> Sebastian Miele <sebastian.miele@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I want to try the t-letter module. I have a fresh install of ConTeXt
>> LMTX from today. The page https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Modules has
>> sections "Installation by hand" and "ConTeXt standalone", but no
>> section on ConTeXt LMTX.
>> 
>> The section on ConTeXt standalone mentions a --modules switch to
>> first-setup.sh in order to include modules. This cannot work with the
>> install.sh from ConTeXt LMTX, as it does not pass any command line
>> arguments to mtxrun.
>
> As far as I understand there is no built-in method. You have to
> install them manually. Relevant thread:
>
>   https://mailman.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2020/097022.html

Thank you. That pointed into the right direction.

The thread contains a little script to get all modules
(https://mailman.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2020/097023.html).

However, the script does not really work. (In every iteration of the
loop of the script, the --delete to rsync deletes the files of the
module from the previous iteration. Just omitting the --delete would not
be correct, either.)

Using the information from the script, I wrote, tested, and wikified
something else (https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Modules#ConTeXt_LMTX).
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