From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/18045 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: h h extern Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Using capsule versoion of TeX from Pragma. Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 23:19:45 +0100 Message-ID: <41FD5D81.5050008@wxs.nl> References: <200501300824.42793.john@wexfordpress.com> <200501301424.45872.john@wexfordpress.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1107123593 17405 80.91.229.6 (30 Jan 2005 22:19:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 22:19:53 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sun Jan 30 23:19:48 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CvNQ3-000826-00 for ; Sun, 30 Jan 2005 23:19:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id C42D1127E6; Sun, 30 Jan 2005 23:19:49 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 27713-10-4; Sun, 30 Jan 2005 23:19:47 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D942B127D9; Sun, 30 Jan 2005 23:19:47 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCAD2127D9 for ; Sun, 30 Jan 2005 23:19:46 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 27713-10-3 for ; Sun, 30 Jan 2005 23:19:46 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from mailrelay01.solcon.nl (maillb.solcon.nl [212.45.32.200]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EA61127D3 for ; Sun, 30 Jan 2005 23:19:46 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from server-1.pragma-net.nl (dsl-212-84-128-085.solcon.nl [212.84.128.85]) by mailrelay01.solcon.nl (8.12.11/SQL-8.12.11-5/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j0UMJeQt008236 for ; Sun, 30 Jan 2005 23:19:40 +0100 Original-Received: by server-1.pragma-net.nl (Postfix, from userid 65534) id 2974717B53; Sun, 30 Jan 2005 23:11:31 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [127.0.0.1] (unknown [10.100.1.1]) by server-1.pragma-net.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B87F17B42 for ; Sun, 30 Jan 2005 22:11:28 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (Windows/20040913) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl In-Reply-To: X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.80/540/Tue Oct 19 14:59:23 2004 clamav-milter version 0.80j on mailrelay01 X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:18045 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:18045 Peter M=FCnster wrote: >>If Ruby is necessary to make the minimal linux package offered on Prag= ma=20 >>functional it would be helpful to specify that in the readme. I thought= the=20 >>Pragma Linux TeX package was self-contained. It would also be helpful i= f a=20 >>fmtutil.cnf file were included so that fmtutil would work.=20 >> >>I will try downloading ruby from somewhere, installing that and moving=20 >>forward. If that doesn't work then I will give up on the Pragma minmal=20 >>distro. It is a good idea, but it doesn't work correctly. =20 >=20 >=20 > About one week ago, I installed the latest teTeX-beta (about 100 MB to > download). And now I checked for usage of ruby: > ls -lu `which ruby` > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5363 Sep 23 2003 /usr/bin/ruby >=20 > So, it seems, ruby wasn't needed... >=20 > I've just made a little script for my brother to install the newest teT= eX > on SuSE (should work also for other distributions). > Perhaps you'll find it useful, so I attach it to this message. Just run= it > as root and then log in again to get the right PATH. > There is also the latest version of pdfTeX. nowadays perl, python and ruby are present on must linux systems as well = as=20 macosx; on windows there are good installers so that should not be a prob= lem as=20 well; currently in context, texexec, texutil, texfont and texshow are perl scri= pts,=20 while the rest is ruby; i'm moving code from texutil to some ruby counter= parts,=20 and some day soon i'll split/cleanup texexec as well [but i will keep thi= ngs=20 downward compatible]; texfont is in the process of cleanup [wybo cleaned = up the=20 code and i will pick up that thread once i've finished some way-behind wo= rk] in principle, one can expect perl, python and ruby scripts as part of the= =20 context distribution, since all have their benefits Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------