From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/22353 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Problem following "OpenType installation basics for ConTeXt" article Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 09:58:52 +0200 Message-ID: <431FEF3C.9080002@wxs.nl> References: <20050907062707.16465@mail.comp.lancs.ac.uk> <6faad9f0050907085475daec15@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1126166479 2997 80.91.229.2 (8 Sep 2005 08:01:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 08:01:19 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Sep 08 10:01:14 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EDHJ7-0004Ap-6D for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Sep 2005 09:58:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0593127B9; Thu, 8 Sep 2005 09:58:47 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 15091-05; Thu, 8 Sep 2005 09:58:42 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC2621279D; Thu, 8 Sep 2005 09:58:42 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1397F1279D for ; Thu, 8 Sep 2005 09:58:42 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 15228-01 for ; Thu, 8 Sep 2005 09:58:41 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mailrelay01.solcon.nl (maillb.solcon.nl [212.45.32.200]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0575C12797 for ; Thu, 8 Sep 2005 09:58:40 +0200 (CEST) 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 j887wdhx023453 for ; Thu, 8 Sep 2005 09:58:39 +0200 Original-Received: by server-1.pragma-net.nl (Postfix, from userid 65534) id 5730E3497E; Thu, 8 Sep 2005 09:06:15 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.15] (unknown [10.100.1.15]) by server-1.pragma-net.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 009102DC48 for ; Thu, 8 Sep 2005 07:06:13 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.86.2, clamav-milter version 0.86 on mailrelay01 X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Virus-Scanned: 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-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on smtp.ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:22353 Archived-At: Gavin Sinclair wrote: >On 9/8/05, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > > >>Gavin Sinclair wrote: >> >> >>>Adam Lindsay wrote: >>> >>> >>>>(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. >>>> >>>> >>>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. >>> >>> >>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.) >> >> > >Thanks for the tip. texexec --version tells me > > context : ver: 2005.06.27 > cont-en : ver: 2005.06.27 fmt: 2005.8.31 mes: english > >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... > >How about just installing ConTeXt myself on top of MiKTeX? Should work, right? > > 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------