Re: Newbie questions

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Gerben Wierda wrote:
> On Jun 24, 2006, at 16:56, Thomas Moore wrote:
>
>   
>> 2.  I would like the math environment to be as close to the LaTeX AMS
>> environment as possible. I have figured out how to download the t-
>> amsl module and can successfully invoke it as long as the t-amsl.tex
>> file is in the same folder as my document files. But how do I install
>> it permanently so that I can invoke it in all my documents? I was
>> unable to find instructions in the ConTexT garden for this, and what
>> I could find on the archives was not helpful (something about
>> "running mktexlsr" and/or "texhash" that I have don't know how to do
>> in OS X, and would be afraid to do without instructions anyway for
>> fear of screwing up my TeX distribution).
>>
>> Thanks for any help, and sorry if the questions are stupid.  Tom Moore
>>     
>
> Depending on how you installed TeX, t-amsl.tex is there. If you 
> installed with the TeX i-Package:
>
> $ kpsewhich t-amsl.tex
> /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/context/maths/t-amsl.tex
>
> But it is the one from 1.5 years ago in the old ConTeXt that comes with 
> the (discontinued) teTeX texmf tree. If you also installed the ConTeXt 
> updater (which is pretty up-to-date), the math stuff is not in there 
> (Hans, why not?) so you get a newer ConTeXt with an older t-amsl.tex 
> and I have no idea if that works.
>   
it's a third party module, and when not present at the context garden, 
it will not end up on ctan (or in the extras zip)
>
> If someone tells me what to include in the ConTeXt updater for this 
> math stuff and where to get it, I can make life easy for you.
>   
taco can give you details on how to auto-sync with the garden third party modules,

Hans 
 

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