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From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: MKIV on Mactex Texlive 2008 (Context broken)
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 11:36:57 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4ABB3DB9.8070502@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <542F98EF-8680-4422-B8B8-03A963CFFAB4@suddenlink.net>

David Arnold wrote:
> Hans,
> 
> My impression from reading installation directions for minimals is that 
> when you open a shell, and if you have your .bash_profile configured, 
> that setuptex will be sourced. That must set some sort of path while the 
> current shell is active? Will that interfere with needing to suddenly 
> latex a file?
> 
> D.
> 
> On Sep 23, 2009, at 2:04 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:
> 
>> David Arnold wrote:
>>> Hans,
>>> No. I have Mactex texlive 2008 installed and I used the rsync 
>>> directions on:
>>> http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Running_Mark_IV
>>> The result is I no longer have a functioning context installation.
>>> I will try installing the minimals, but I'd really like to get my 
>>> Mactex installation correct and the directions on the above page 
>>> correct.
>>
>> you should install the minimals alongside (not combined) with mactex; 
>> the operate isolated and can be updated independently and used without 
>> interference (issue the setuptex script to switch to the minimals tree)

yes, as latex is not in the minimals. however, normally you will then 
just use a separate shell

if you're running from an editor, and using mkiv, you can just run the 
context script (use the full path to it) and it will operate in the tree 
that it sits in

Hans


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      parent reply	other threads:[~2009-09-24  9:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-23  4:58 MKIV on Mactex Texlive 2008 David Arnold
2009-09-23 15:47 ` MKIV on Mactex Texlive 2008 (Context broken) David Arnold
2009-09-23 16:46   ` Aditya Mahajan
2009-09-23 17:22     ` David Arnold
2009-09-23 20:16   ` Hans Hagen
2009-09-23 20:25     ` David Arnold
2009-09-23 21:04       ` Hans Hagen
2009-09-23 21:19         ` David Arnold
2009-09-24  6:40           ` Oliver Buerschaper
2009-09-24  9:36           ` Hans Hagen [this message]

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