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 > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > 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 : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ > wiki : http://contextgarden.net > ___________________________________________________________________________________