From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/29301 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Adam Lindsay Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: slightly OT: presentation tool Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 15:23:43 +0100 Message-ID: <44B505EF.9040602@comp.lancs.ac.uk> References: Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1152714272 31848 80.91.229.2 (12 Jul 2006 14:24:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 14:24:32 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Wed Jul 12 16:24:24 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 1G0fdE-0002fF-R3 for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Jul 2006 16:24:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D30E312861; Wed, 12 Jul 2006 16:24:04 +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 29449-02; Wed, 12 Jul 2006 16:23:58 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE6E4127EA; Wed, 12 Jul 2006 16:23:57 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1189127EA for ; Wed, 12 Jul 2006 16:23:50 +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 25272-05 for ; Wed, 12 Jul 2006 16:23:46 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail.comp.lancs.ac.uk (mail.comp.lancs.ac.uk [148.88.3.45]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id 8419712793 for ; Wed, 12 Jul 2006 16:23:43 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [148.88.224.208] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.comp.lancs.ac.uk (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k6CENh8B008045 for ; Wed, 12 Jul 2006 15:23:43 +0100 (BST) User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (Macintosh/20060530) Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.7 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:29301 Archived-At: Nice one, Thomas. A few comments for the Mac folks: Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: > screen with your mouse pointer. There are some disadvantages: it has > a lot of pythonish dependencies (on OS X, I could install them via > darwinports, but it's a lot more difficult on most linux distros), it I don't subscribe to any ports systems any more. I tried tracking through the python dependencies myself, and got pretty frustrated, but Bob Ippolito's packages (Mac OS X 10.4) were a tremendous help: http://pythonmac.org/packages/py24-fat/index.html (pdftk has its own mac installers, and I installed GS a while ago.) -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Adam T. Lindsay, Computing Dept. atl@comp.lancs.ac.uk Lancaster University, InfoLab21 +44(0)1524/510.514 Lancaster, LA1 4WA, UK Fax:+44(0)1524/510.492 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-