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From: Sytse Knypstra <S.Knypstra@rug.nl>
Subject: Re: Re: Tutorial
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 09:28:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <425B7891.6010903@rug.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <425B275C.5070109@iname.com>



Gary wrote:
> Patrick Gundlach wrote:
> 
>>> I am currently working in a Windows (XP) environment but if it makes
>>> a difference and Linux is more suitable for a Tex environment I move
>>> to a Unix based one then. Thanks for the reply.
>>>   
>>
>>
>> No problem, there are several windows users on this list. But I don't
>> know which distribution is currently preferred. MikTeX?
>>  
>>
> I can't speak for any other distribution, but MikTeX is practically 
> mindlessly easy to install and maintain.  And it seems to work.
> 
>> http://www.miktex.org/ You should be able to produce ConTeXt documents
>> out of the box when installed properly.
>>
>> Hope this helps,
>>
>> Patrick

I would definitely not recommend MikTeX. Sooner or later, if your 
projects are growing, you run into the error:
  ! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [hash size=35000].
and MikTeX does not provide a way to increase hash size.
See the discussion on
http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20031205.084314.a5019886.html

Sytse

  reply	other threads:[~2005-04-12  7:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-04-11 20:41 Loeghmon Tadayon Nejad
2005-04-11 20:57 ` Tutorial Patrick Gundlach
2005-04-12  1:41   ` Tutorial Gary
2005-04-12  7:28     ` Sytse Knypstra [this message]
2005-04-11 22:07 ` Hans Hagen
2005-04-11 23:41   ` Paul Tremblay
2005-04-12 17:00   ` SVG support (was: Tutorial) Henning Hraban Ramm
2005-04-12 17:37     ` SVG support Hans Hagen

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