Re: Installing ConTeXt Minimals on a Mac

[Alan Bowen <acbowen@princeton.edu>]

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Hi, Mocja---

Many thanks for your reply: it is very encouraging. First things  
first, then: let’s make sure I have things in the right place.

The output of
find /Applications/ConTeXtMinimals | head -n 20
is
/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals
/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/.DS_Store
/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/bin
/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/bin/mtx-update-old.lua
/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/bin/mtx-update.lua
/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/bin/mtxrun
/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/bin/texlua
/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/first-setup.sh
/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/status-of-update.lua
/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex
/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/.DS_Store
/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/setuptex
/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/setuptex.bat
/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/setuptex.tmf
/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf
/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf/.DS_Store
/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf/doc
/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf/doc/.DS_Store
/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf/doc/fonts
/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf/doc/fonts/.DS_Store

I will wait for word from you about the changes you suggest to fix (a)  
and for Jérôme to fix the sync parser (c).

I tried both
  . /Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/setuptex
and
export PATH=/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-osx-intel/bin:$PATH
in ~/.bash_profile file (that is, in Users/alancbowen)
but when I typed
texmfstart ctxtools --contextversion
it listed only those in my texlive2007 distribution---no mention of  
the ConTeXtMinimals.

Cheers, Alan

On Sep 1, 2008, at 03;16,18 , Mojca Miklavec wrote:

> Hello Alan,
>
> I'm sorry for not replying earlier.
>
> On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 12:16 PM, Alan Bowen wrote:
>> What follows are some queries that I will be happy to write up for  
>> the wiki.
>> The aim (hope?) is to develop a set of instructions for installing  
>> the
>> minimals on a Mac that a Mac user without any real knowledge of  
>> unix (such
>> as myself) can follow easily. (There are a number of people  
>> scattered around
>> the world who help me in producing various publications; and since  
>> they too
>> are not unix savvy, I need such instructions if we are to keep our
>> installations functioning and up to date.)
>> Once the ConTeXt minimals are installed in the Applications folder  
>> and the
>> user can run
>> \starttext
>> Hello world!
>> \stoptext
>> which is where the wiki (Installation>section 1.2) currently leaves  
>> off,
>> there still remain a few tasks.
>> Specifically,
>> (a) getting this ConTeXt installation to recognize a personal texmf
>> directory
>
> I usually put my files to texmf-local. Well, no, I actually copy
> "setuptex" into "mytex" and make local modifications there, so that I
> can include my own texmf trees (ugly solution). We just got a
> complaint about non-existant TEXMFHOME during the conference. We took
> setuptex from Hans' distribution and did not touch TEXMFHOME at all.
> The problem is that Hans wanted to prevent old local files to
> interefere with "standalone" tree, completely isolated from the outer
> world.
>
> We can either:
> - fix setuptex, but I would like to have Hans' permission to do it
> - create another "setupfriendlytex" :) and modify whatever we want  
> there
>
> The fix is super-easy: change
>    export HOMETEXMF=/nonexist
> into
>    export HOMETEXMF=~/.texmf
> (with or without the dot - up to you; MacTeX uses ~/Library/texmf or
> something similar, I think, but should check)
>
> And then add TEXMFHOME to the list:
>
> export TEXMF='{$TEXMFHOME,$TEXMFLOCAL,!!$TEXMFOS,!!$TEXMFCONTEXT,!! 
> $TEXMFEXTRA,!!$TEXMFMAIN}'
>
> But I need someone to tell me to do that
>
>> (b) running the various binaries (e.g., texmfstart, ctxtools) in
>> /Applications/ConTeXtMinimals from Terminal
>
> You can create ~/.bash_profile and put one of those lines into it (I
> suggest (a), but (b) would suffice):
> a) . /Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/setuptex
> b) export PATH=/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-osx-intel/bin: 
> $PATH
>
> Then, once you start a new shell, you'll see the programs in your
> shell. "/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex" assumes that you have
> installed your files to that folder. Change accordingly. The minimals
> are not a GUI program, so I would rather put it to some other folder,
> but that's up to users. (I have the files simply in my home dir.)
>
> The main problem is that GUI programs won't see that ~/.bash_profile,
> so you need to follow the slighly off rules for TeXShop where there
> are indeed quite some mistakes.
>
> Can you please send the output of
>    find /Applications/ConTeXtMinimals | head -n 20
> I suspect that you were setting the wrong folder during download of  
> minimals.
>
>> (c) establishing synchronization between  PDF output and its  
>> ConTeXt source.
>> Currently, it does not seem to work (with TeXShop at least)
>> Note, in the latest TeXShop there is
>> Added support for SyncTeX. SyncTeX is new synchronization  
>> technology by
>> Jerome Laurens which is included in TeX Live 2008 (but not earlier  
>> TeX
>> distributions). The technology is built directly into pdfTeX and  
>> XeTeX. In
>> modern TeX distributions, most typesetting actually calls pdfetex  
>> (even if
>> using latex to output a dvi file), and thus the technology is  
>> available for
>> such typesetting. To use the technology, add the flag --synctex=1
>> Any advice on how to do(a), (b), and (c) will be much appreciated.
>
> You can try
>    texexec --passon="-synctex=1" filename
> but I didn't manage to make it work - it always pointed back to
> \stoptext or \page, just as it pointed to the end of minipage in
> LaTeX. Apart from the fact that I wasn't sure which tool to use to
> make rsync work (when I was testing, TeXShop didn't support synctex
> yet, TeXWorks behaved weird, and one would need to write support for
> TextMate first, but when Patrick tried it, he have up after
> discovering that it didn't work anyway).
>
> While answering you I just got a reply from Jérôme:
>
>> The problem comes from the synctex parser.
>> I made different experiments and forgot to test the latest one with  
>> context.
>> I will upload the new versions soon but I am afraid the various  
>> viewers must be updated.
>> You will have to wait a little longer...
>
> So sadly I need to repeat the last sentence from him ...
>
> Mojca
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