From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/25091 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: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 09:30:55 +0100 Message-ID: <43C4C23F.7000104@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 1136968265 26417 80.91.229.2 (11 Jan 2006 08:31:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 08:31:05 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Wed Jan 11 09:31:03 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 1EwbNm-0008IR-2l for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Jan 2006 09:31:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9ECA41282B; Wed, 11 Jan 2006 09:31:01 +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 22482-02; Wed, 11 Jan 2006 09:30:59 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BDB712827; Wed, 11 Jan 2006 09:30:59 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7A1A12827 for ; Wed, 11 Jan 2006 09:30:57 +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 22548-03 for ; Wed, 11 Jan 2006 09:30:56 +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 8D3BA12825 for ; Wed, 11 Jan 2006 09:30:56 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.102] (unverified [10.100.1.102]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.5b3) with ESMTP id 95 for ; Wed, 11 Jan 2006 03:41:14 +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:25091 Archived-At: Gerben Wierda wrote: > On Jan 10, 2006, at 21:22, Idris Samawi Hamid wrote: > >>> 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. >> > > If someone can tell me which part of my redistro should stay, I can > easily rearrange matters such that such a minimal install is possible. since the minimals have many fonts, they are not that small; they use the [10pt] subsets of cbgreek and cmsuper [karl bery and i hav ebeen playing with subsets and if i'm right tex live now also ships with subsets] which saves many megs; the minimals also don't have latex and other macro packages (only plain tex as this is used in mptopdf); this may safe quite some megs (as well as speeds up file searching) because latex ships with sourcetrees as well also, nothing metafont is included plus a subset of binaries, think of: afm2pl afm2tfm aleph dvips dvitodvi dvitomp dvipdfmx kpseaccess kpsestat kpsewhich mktexlsr mpost mpto pdfetex pltotf texmfstart tftopl ttf2afm ttf2tfm vftovp vptovf (+ xetex) (+ some tool stubs) it's still on taco/mine's agenda to set up a gforce minimal repos at fabrice's server for packagers Hans