From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/22366 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 17:31:51 +0200 Message-ID: <43205967.3000408@wxs.nl> References: <20050907062707.16465@mail.comp.lancs.ac.uk> <6faad9f0050907085475daec15@mail.gmail.com> <431FEF3C.9080002@wxs.nl> 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 1126193777 30992 80.91.229.2 (8 Sep 2005 15:36:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 15:36:17 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Sep 08 17:36:16 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 1EDONQ-0002ZZ-K4 for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Sep 2005 17:31:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FD32127E1; Thu, 8 Sep 2005 17:31:48 +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 20643-01-3; Thu, 8 Sep 2005 17:31:43 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15D34127F8; Thu, 8 Sep 2005 17:31:43 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 626CF127F8 for ; Thu, 8 Sep 2005 17:31:41 +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 20643-01-2 for ; Thu, 8 Sep 2005 17:31:40 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mailrelay02.solcon.nl (maillb.solcon.nl [212.45.32.200]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DDBB127E1 for ; Thu, 8 Sep 2005 17:31:40 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from server-1.pragma-net.nl (dsl-212-84-128-085.solcon.nl [212.84.128.85]) by mailrelay02.solcon.nl (8.12.11/SQL-8.12.11-5/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j88FVapr027119 for ; Thu, 8 Sep 2005 17:31:36 +0200 Original-Received: by server-1.pragma-net.nl (Postfix, from userid 65534) id BB18A2DC48; Thu, 8 Sep 2005 16:39:11 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.15] (unknown [10.100.1.15]) by server-1.pragma-net.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE5B9193B3 for ; Thu, 8 Sep 2005 14:39:10 +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 mailrelay02 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:22366 Archived-At: 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------