Re: Installing ConTeXt Minimals on a Mac

[Alan Bowen <acbowen@princeton.edu>]

On Sep 2, 2008, at 14;54,40 , Mojca Miklavec wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 8:42 PM, Alan Bowen wrote:
>>
>> I have also inserted the lines
>> export HOMETEXMF=~/Library/texmf
>> and
>> export
>> TEXMF='{$HOMETEXMF,$TEXMFLOCAL,!!$TEXMFOS,!!$TEXMFCONTEXT,!! 
>> $TEXMFEXTRA,!!$TEXMFMAIN}'
>> into a file formed by copying the content of setuptex.
>> But before I can test this, assuming that so far is so good, I need  
>> to turn
>> my setuptex (which is natively a .tex file) into unix executable.  
>> How do I
>> do this?
>
> A TeX file???

I did confess ignorance at the outset, didn’t I? 8-)

> setuptex should already be executable and no TeX file (the best way to
> do the change would be to use "cp setuptex mysetuptex" and then modify
> the latter), but if you want to make sure ... do
>    chmod a+x mysetuptex (or however your file is called)
> "ls -l" should show you the status of file (you should be able to see
> if the file is executable).

Thanks. What confused me was that on my Mac the icon for the setuptex  
changed after I edited it.

Anyway, the revised setuptex works perfectly with the  
ConTeXtMinimals.engine. Thank you again.

But the question now is, which solution do you recommend? As a user,  
my preference is for the one that leaves setuptex alone and focuses on  
the engines that TeXShop uses, since it makes switching form MKII to  
MKIV very easy to do. (I would add that, as things stand now, I also  
have easy access to my Texlive 2007 setup.) However, I am much more  
interested in keeping my setup in line with development path that you,  
Hans, and the others set for the minimals, since, as I gather, they  
are the future of ConTeXt.

Very best, Alan
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