From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
Subject: Re: i-Installer / minimal TeX installation for ConTeXt?
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 23:09:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43C430AD.20409@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <op.s26ivsk4nx1yh1@walayah1.wildblue.com>
Idris Samawi Hamid wrote:
> On Mon, 09 Jan 2006 12:23:17 -0700, David Wooten <dw@trichotomic.net>
> wrote:
>
>> Greetings all,
>>
>> By and by I've found that I am only using ConTeXt for my typesetting
>> needs. I am curious as to whether someone can advise me how best to
>> install a suitable yet minimal TeX installation: without LaTeX, etc.
>> I am currently using Gerben's very helpful i-Installer.
>>
>> Perhaps it would vary too much between users to say definitively?
>
>
> Such a distro exists for windows. Someone would have to take
> responsibility for a Mac setup, and I suppose that's one reason why
> Hans has not (yet) a similar package for Mac (or Linix)
a minimal is:
- the smallest complete context tree possible (lots of fonts)
- platform related binaries
(minimal trees can be used (and are faster than the distributed big
ones) and i myself prefer such small trees in server processes)
i do generate them for all platforms that i run into but i must admit
that i don't keep the mac binaries as up to date as needed; the reason
is that Gerben keeps his installer very up to date, so for the average
tex user on the mac a minimal tree is mainly a reference tree; the best
person to ask hwo to do a latexless install on the mac is Gerben
Hans
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-10 22:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-09 19:23 David Wooten
2006-01-10 20:22 ` Idris Samawi Hamid
2006-01-10 22:09 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2006-01-11 0:00 ` Gerben Wierda
2006-01-11 5:16 ` Idris Samawi Hamid
2006-01-11 8:30 ` Hans Hagen
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