From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/80179 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: ConTeXt on the Mac (TexShop). Problem of a newbie Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 10:11:54 +0100 Message-ID: <50EE85DA.6070207@wxs.nl> References: <8E16D40C6A36AF46A9050494F6F6A7BB35B28EED@wklex07v.klinik.uni-wuerzburg.de> <50ED31C1.4010208@wxs.nl> <8E16D40C6A36AF46A9050494F6F6A7BB35B2A24A@wklex07v.klinik.uni-wuerzburg.de> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1357809122 3741 80.91.229.3 (10 Jan 2013 09:12:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 09:12:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Meigen, Thomas" To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Jan 10 10:12:20 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TtEBO-0000NT-BW for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Jan 2013 10:12:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CDF0101EA; Thu, 10 Jan 2013 10:12:02 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 0oZjqIbVGaVl; Thu, 10 Jan 2013 10:12:00 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77D02101E6; Thu, 10 Jan 2013 10:12:00 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD49A101E6 for ; Thu, 10 Jan 2013 10:11:58 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id yUxfx66dWrEU for ; Thu, 10 Jan 2013 10:11:57 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from filter3-ams.mf.surf.net (filter3-ams.mf.surf.net [192.87.102.71]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0E50101E5 for ; Thu, 10 Jan 2013 10:11:57 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from smtp.ziggozakelijk.nl (D57D1DA2.static.ziggozakelijk.nl [213.125.29.162]) by filter3-ams.mf.surf.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-9.4) with ESMTP id r0A9Bv57001258 for ; Thu, 10 Jan 2013 10:11:57 +0100 X-Default-Received-SPF: pass (skip=loggedin (res=PASS)) x-ip-name=10.100.1.100; Original-Received: from [10.100.1.100] (unverified [10.100.1.100]) by pragma-net.nl (SurgeMail 6.1c) with ESMTP (TLS) id 2778-1713362 for multiple; Thu, 10 Jan 2013 10:11:53 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130107 Thunderbird/17.0.2 In-Reply-To: <8E16D40C6A36AF46A9050494F6F6A7BB35B2A24A@wklex07v.klinik.uni-wuerzburg.de> X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-9 X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=213.125.29.162; country=NL; latitude=52.5000; longitude=5.7500; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=52.5000,5.7500&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 03IK9bVtB - 659e7e4d77e5 - 20130110 (trained as not-spam) X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 192.87.102.71 X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:80179 Archived-At: On 1/10/2013 9:13 AM, Meigen, Thomas wrote: > .... and as life is already complicated enough ;-), my decision > has more to do with usability and reliability than with the number > of options. I am a software developer for more than 20 years now, > so I know very well how easy it is to implement some > "bug in recently updated XYZ code" as Hans had diagnosed my > problem. But would it be possible to use ConTeXt without > having to care about bugs in updated code or broken links > between different modules...? some of the presentation styles started out a experiments and therefore can have code that should be adapted if experiments have turned feature anyhow, the transition from mkii to mkiv involves rewrites and therefore there can be issues but normally they're fixed rather fast; also, updating is easy (just run first-setup again); it's the price we pay for using luatex, which is evolving > So before turning to additional modules with additional questions like... > > - if I use simple- or complexslide , do I need to install the visualcounter-module before? > - if so, is there a clear documentation of the required modules? > > .... I wanted to see whether a rather simple example without > any additional module would work out of the box. > Well, it did partially... ;-) you only need modules for special kind of functionality or rendering (like presentations) although one can make presentations without extra modules (just set the papersize to S6 or so) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl ----------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________