Re: startup script stubs (for unix)

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

On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 7:40 PM, frantisek holop <minusf@obiit.org> wrote:
> hmm, on Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 04:52:49PM +0100, Mojca Miklavec said that
>> That folder is not meant to be a replacement for binaries. It's just a
>> folder where files can be taken from and put somewhere else
>> afterwards. They don't have the x bit set because zip on windows
>> doesn't handle permission bits.
>
> ok, i have a lot of catching up to do because of the enormous
> volume of mail hitting this list, but let me ask this.  all i want
> is a simple alias/shell_script/stub/whatever to run context on
> a .tex file.  that's all.  as someone coming from latex (a long time
> ago) and running commands like "latex doc.tex" or "pdflatex doc.tex"
> i always expected that to be "context doc.tex".  when i started using
> context, it was "texexec doc.tex".
>
> as a user i don't mind what's in the background, perl, shell, ruby
> or a bone fide binary, all i'd like to do is have an official
> (as opposed to hand rolled/home made) context command that runs
> everything that is needed to process the .tex file.

That's texexec and it's official on any TeX distribution, the only
problem is that it doesn't work so well in older distributions. Any
recent distribution has a properly working texexec command.

But if you want to fiddle with home-made distribution, you need to be
ready for using home-made solutions. That's all.

There is also a more recent command "context" which uses luatex engine
in the background. But I would not recommend you to try to enable it
on the ancient distribution until you figure out all the other bits
and pieces. You need to configure way too many files ... and you
probably don't want to do every time when you reinstall the system if
you do that often. It's much easier to install the minimals.

> is there something like that? if not, will be? :]

Sure, there is - as explained above. It's just that nobody cares about
tetex any more and nobody will provide support for tetex. But if you
like it (for a reason - LaTeX hardly changes if you don't use XeTeX,
TikZ etc.) it's perfectly fine if you configure it to use the most
recent ConTeXt.

Mojca
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