Re: XeTeX after ctxtools

["Mojca Miklavec" <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com>]

On 9/16/07, Andrea Valle wrote:
> I was happy with old install, with bugs and xetex low level commands :-)
>
> So, er, which strategy you gurus suggest?
>
> Reinstall from scratch (old) TeXLive 2007 waiting for a new release?

That's one possibility, of course.

You can also download any ConTeXt version from here:
    http://foundry.supelec.fr/frs/?group_id=14
and then unzip it into texmf-local (or wherever the ConTeXt files
currently are) and remake formats.

But there is still one thing I fear: font handling in XeTeX has been
broken since TeX Live came out, so I don't know if there is any
"stable" XeTeX font support in any of the versions between the one
from TeX Live 2007 and the latest one. There are some late versions
and fixes, but I really don't know which one to suggest. Perhaps Taco
knows better. Or simply take the one from TeX Live again.

Another possibility would be to use LuaTeX. It should work OK, but
again, there is no 100% guarantee (I created some newspaper with it
back in June and besides all the problems I had every now and then, it
was pre-alpha after all, our color laser at university still objects
to print it out. I shouldn't have mentioned that, but only to warn you
that any last-minute fixes in ConTeXt can be problematic, if you don't
have at least two days inbetween, so that all the little bugs biting
you in that release can be fixed.)

I hope that the problem with non-working PDFs will be resolved really
soon, so if you have a few days more to wait ... in the meantime you
can try LuaTeX.

wget http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/install/macosxtex.zip
wget http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/install/justtex.zip
unzip macosxtex.zip
unzip justtex.zip
cd tex
. setuptex
luatools --generate
texexec --make --all
texexec --make --xtx --all
texexec --make --lua --all

Don't worry, that won't break your distribution. You can use the
standalone context completely isolated from everything else. You only
need to issue ". setuptex" each time you want to use the standalone.
In all the other cases, your system-installed TeX will be used.

Mojca
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