From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/5 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Context Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 09:03:34 +0200 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.ruu.nl Message-ID: <3557F446.639FF9BD@pi.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035390864 20219 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 16:34:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 16:34:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: NTG-CONTEXT , Thomas Esser Original-To: TEX-NL , Berend de Boer Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:5 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:5 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 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | mail: pragma@pi.net -----------------------------------------------------------------