From: Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Choosing ConTeXt install method on Mac
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 23:20:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6faad9f00901211420r3212b309rd2266a9b2047f9f4@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <r259ps-10411p-C8CE8D4AB67B4DA4BF180B16D8845FBE@d154-5-133-84.bchsia.telus.net>
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 9:09 PM, David Rogers wrote:
> Hello all
>
> I'm going to do a clean re-install of my machine (Tiger on PPC) soon, and
> I'd like guidance on methods of installing ConTeXt. I assume that (a) TeX
> Live 2008 with its tlmgr utility, or (b) ConTeXt minimals, are the two
> realistic possibilities - is this correct?
>
> What I'd like:
>
> - A clear way of keeping ConTeXt mkiv usable and up to date with Hans's
> latest version
>
> - An installation method that will continue to be maintained, and that is
> expected to be used by the majority of ordinary users of ConTeXt in the
> future
>
>
> ...So should I go for TeX Live, or the minimals, or something else I don't
> know about yet?
I would suggest MacTeX 2008 + minimals.
I have both, with manually slightly updated ConTeXt in MacTeX 2008.
MacTeX is nice since it "always works" (includes LaTeX and dozens of
fonts and other packages that might be missing in minimals) and you
have a backup system in case that the "latest alpha" in minimals gets
broken.
I have this in ~/.bash_profile:
#. context/tex/setuptex context/tex
and I keep commenting/uncommenting it as needed (or just execute that
line in bash). The nice thing about minimals is that it doesn't
interfere with other TeX distributions, so you can have it installed
in parallel and it doesn't take too much space when compared with TeX
Live.
You need some additional hacks to get the minimals working in gui
applications. Oliver started writing an installer that could simplify
matters a bit, but got stuck with some external bugs at some point and
didn't publically release anything yet.
Mojca
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-21 20:09 David Rogers
2009-01-21 20:43 ` Otared Kavian
2009-01-21 22:20 ` Mojca Miklavec [this message]
2009-01-22 13:05 ` Andrea Valle
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