Re: Coming back to ConTeXt

[Alain Delmotte <esperanto@swing.be>]

Hi,

Le 25/01/2013 17:14, Mojca Miklavec a écrit :
> On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 2:47 PM, Alain Delmotte wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>   I decided to give another try to ConTeXt.
>>   I already did two years ago, I think, but I had problems mostly because of
>> the lack of documentation for MkIV.
>>   Having a more or less strong knowledge and experience of LaTeX doesn't
>> help!!!
>>
>>   This time:
>>   I did not succeed to install a stand alone version.
>
> Tell us more about the specific problems.

I did retry everything from the beginning and now it works.
One problem is that there is two "bin" folder and I was 
first pointing to the wrong one; after that I didn't see the 
context.exe and was trying to use mtxrun.
And of course I did add to the path.

So now it works from a standalone version. (up to date)

>
>>   Following the discussions on ntg-context, there often is solution using one
>> of hte latest version of ConTeXt, so I have a first question: is it possible
>> to update the TeX Live ConTeXt and its associated files?
>
> I would suggest you to do the following:
> - Add tlcontrib to the list of repositories and update luatex and
> ConTeXt from there (http://tlcontrib.metatex.org/usage.html).

I did try this before reinstalling the standalone; but it 
was refused because there probably is a pointer to TeX Live 
2010 and I have 2012.

> - You can add the latest version of ConTeXt to texmf-local or
> $TEXMFHOME (usually $HOME/texmf, but may be set to a different place)
> or to some other place. You can clone a git repository
> (https://gitorious.org/context) there for example (just make sure that
> you don't use one extra directory).
> - Apart from that you need to make sure that mtxrun will be taken from
> the latest ConTeXt. There are different options to achieve that. (Add
> $HOME/bin to PATH and put a symlink or copy of mtxrun there, or any
> other option that comes to your mind.)
>
> Mojca
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