From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/52435 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Thomas A. Schmitz" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Context-minimal installation problem. Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 20:11:42 +0200 Message-ID: <36006FA5-6B5B-49DF-AAF4-95F62BC74905@uni-bonn.de> References: <200908181215.03276.john@wexfordpress.com> <0BC42038-B611-4DAC-B70E-BFF199F9A21E@uni-bonn.de> <200908181404.16791.john@wexfordpress.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed"; DelSp="yes" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1250619146 12798 80.91.229.12 (18 Aug 2009 18:12:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 18:12:26 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Tue Aug 18 20:12:19 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MdTAO-0001Ck-It for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Aug 2009 20:12:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C50AC9A47; Tue, 18 Aug 2009 20:12:15 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id Od5HfGaelluy; Tue, 18 Aug 2009 20:12:12 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55AB8C9A81; Tue, 18 Aug 2009 20:12:12 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DC72C9A81 for ; Tue, 18 Aug 2009 20:12:11 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id RERIIIwJgOif for ; Tue, 18 Aug 2009 20:11:59 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from uni-bonn.de (mail.uni-bonn.de [131.220.15.113]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85966C9A47 for ; Tue, 18 Aug 2009 20:11:59 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [87.178.104.204] (account tschmit1@uni-bonn.de HELO [192.168.0.2]) by fe2.uni-bonn.de (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.2.12) with ESMTPA id 22083106 for ntg-context@ntg.nl; Tue, 18 Aug 2009 20:11:59 +0200 In-Reply-To: <200908181404.16791.john@wexfordpress.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.936) X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:52435 Archived-At: 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________