Re: Choosing ConTeXt install method on Mac

[Andrea Valle <valle@di.unito.it>]

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Hi,

I've MacTeX + Minimals.
I use minimals with Smultron.
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_Minimals/Mac_Installation

Best

-a-


On 21 Jan 2009, at 23:20, Mojca Miklavec wrote:

> 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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