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From: Hans Hagen <pragma@pi.net>
Cc: NTG-CONTEXT <ntg-context@ntg.nl>,
	Thomas Esser <te@informatik.uni-hannover.de>
Subject: Re: Context
Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 09:03:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3557F446.639FF9BD@pi.net> (raw)

Roef Ragas wrote:

> N.a.v. de laatste MAPS en de uitnodiging voor de NTG-bijeenkomst, Context
> gedownload, en getracht dit te installeren. Dit mislukt hopeloos, ik doe
> waarschijnlijk iets fout.
> Ik draai TeTeX [Linux], kan iemand mij uitleggen wat ik nu precies moet
> doen om Context uit te proberen? De installatie-pdf vind ik verre van
> duidelijk.

I'll answer in english because I cc to Thomas. ConTeXt is a monolitic
system and only needs a few files at runtime, typically fonts or local
special or language settings. The steps are as follows: 

(1) create a directory for context and unzip the files
(2) generate a format file (fmt file) using a rather large TeX

Running context depends on the system used, but normally is something
like:

tex &cont-nl <filename> 

In these days of prebuild systems, one often gets the fmt files
prebuild. 

In LaTeX, one has a small fmt file (the core) and a large bunch of
feature files (often called style files). In ConTeXt most features are
integrated. As a consequence, an update (actually in a few days an
update in released) needs to be compiled into a fmt file, usually with
something like:

tex --ini cont-nl

after which the file cont-nl.fmt is to be moved to the appropriate
directory. 

It is not that easy to write an installation manual for each system,
although in a few years probably most users will use web2c and tds,
which makes life more easy. 

Berend (also cc'd) has promissed to make a unix installation manual and
Thomas will include ConTeXt in the next tetex distribution. Anyway, it
does not hurt to know how to generate a format. 

Hans 

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             reply	other threads:[~1998-05-12  7:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1998-05-12  7:03 Hans Hagen [this message]
1998-05-12 17:01 Context Berend de Boer
1998-05-12 17:36 Context Tobias Burnus
1998-05-14  8:37 Context Thomas Esser
1998-05-22 20:04 Context Thomas Esser
1998-06-13 17:49 Context Hans Hagen
     [not found] <Pine.LNX.4.10.10004271509230.17079-100000@mykonos.unige.ch >
2000-04-27 20:45 ` context Hans Hagen
2010-11-14 17:52 ConTeXt Alan Raúl
2010-11-16  8:35 ` ConTeXt Hans Hagen

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