Re: Problem following "OpenType installation basics for ConTeXt" article

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Gavin Sinclair wrote:

>On 9/8/05, Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>Gavin Sinclair wrote:
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>>>Adam Lindsay wrote:
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>>>>(This doesn't look like the problem here, but) Are you running the
>>>>latest ConTeXt? There was a bug in the OpenType support in TeXFont that
>>>>was fixed  in the distribution as of a couple months ago.
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>>>I believe so.  I installed ConTeXt for the first time about 10 days
>>>ago.  It was a MiKTeX package, so I'm relying on that being up to
>>>date.
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>>Don't rely on it. MikTeX has just updated ConTeXt (after two months).
>>Once during the last weekend and once on Monday (5.9.). However, the
>>format is from 27.7., 6 official releases ago. Minimal ConTeXt
>>distribution (or replacing some files in teTeX for example) is the
>>best way if you want to keep up-to-date. (MikTeX has some other
>>advantages however.)
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>Thanks for the tip.  texexec --version tells me 
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>               context : ver: 2005.06.27
>               cont-en : ver: 2005.06.27  fmt: 2005.8.31  mes: english
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>which is pretty uncool.  I guess I'll give the mswincontext.zip a try.
> I've hesitated because I don't see any clear instructions anywhere
>and the directory structure in that zip file is unusual for a Windows
>distro.  Also don't want to ditch MiKTeX entirely because I'm
>experimenting with LyX.  Sigh...
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>How about just installing ConTeXt myself on top of MiKTeX?  Should work, right?
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just unzip the file in some safe place, running 'setuptex' (in a dos box) should give you an isolated tex environment; it's on my agenda to provide a miktex bintree as well, but only for testing since miktex has a rather good update mechanism (no reason to duplicate that -)

[my main reason for putting the minimals on the web is that they provide isolated environments, which is somethign i need for projects]; they also demonstrate what is needed for context 

Hans 

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