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

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Gavin Sinclair wrote:

>By "isolated tex environment" I presume you mean "an environment that
>only runs in that dos box".  Is that right?
>
>Does that isolated environment clash with another TeX installation
>(i.e. MiKTeX in this case)?  I'm led to believe TeX installations are
>very territorial: they can't tolerate other installations on the same
>computer!
>  
>
the minimal distributions are really isolated, this is what setuptex.bat does; one drawback of the regular distributions is that they assume that they are installed as only tex distribution; the minimals are set up in such a way that one can run many of them in parallel as well as support multiple platforms with binaries that are out of sync with each other (hence the texmf-mswin etc trees); actually, if we had a texmf-miktex binary tree we could run fptex and miktex in parallel (i have to pick up that thread)

Hans  



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