Re: Context-minimal installation problem.

["Thomas A. Schmitz" <thomas.schmitz@uni-bonn.de>]

On Aug 18, 2009, at 8:04 PM, John Culleton wrote:

> OK, so I can't use Context-minimals and still use pdftex.  I
> discovered years ago that many plain pdftex files would work with
> texexec because Context is really an elaborate set of macros
> depending on pdftex.  I'll try texexec on my pdftex oriented file
> and see if it works.  I do most of my work in plain pdftex.

I don't know enough about plain (pdf)TeX to be of much help, but just  
a few thoughts:

1. luatex does in fact produce a format file plain.fmt, and since  
luatex should be pretty compatible, this may be a start.

2. There is absolutely no problem in having TeXLive and the ConTeXT  
minimals installed side-by-side; I have it on all my computers, both  
OS X and linux. I have two files with setup commands which I source  
for using either system, and then I can have two terminal tabs/windows  
open and use  one or the other.

3. It should be easy to produce pdftex.fmt in the minimals; it just  
lacks a tool such as fmtutil. But you could try and copy over etex.ini  
for your texlive-installation and then run pdftex on it.

HTH

Thomas
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