From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/25076 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: i-Installer / minimal TeX installation for ConTeXt? Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 23:09:49 +0100 Message-ID: <43C430AD.20409@wxs.nl> References: <5EC6B2EB-AF7F-45A6-807C-7766FC9D2657@trichotomic.net> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1136931001 24604 80.91.229.2 (10 Jan 2006 22:10:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 22:10:01 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Tue Jan 10 23:09:57 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org 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 1EwRgi-0001XD-SX for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 Jan 2006 23:09:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A442B1281C; Tue, 10 Jan 2006 23:09:56 +0100 (CET) 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 14778-02-3; Tue, 10 Jan 2006 23:09:54 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A90DD12814; Tue, 10 Jan 2006 23:09:54 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF37C12814 for ; Tue, 10 Jan 2006 23:09:52 +0100 (CET) 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 14782-01-3 for ; Tue, 10 Jan 2006 23:09:51 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from mail.pragma-ade.net (dsl-212-84-128-085.solcon.nl [212.84.128.85]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id CBBCC12813 for ; Tue, 10 Jan 2006 23:09:51 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.102] (unverified [10.100.1.102]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.5b3) with ESMTP id 35 for ; Tue, 10 Jan 2006 17:20:07 +0300 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: X-Server: High Performance Mail Server - http://surgemail.com r=-274017400 X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-1 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-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:25076 Archived-At: Idris Samawi Hamid wrote: > On Mon, 09 Jan 2006 12:23:17 -0700, David Wooten > 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