From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/40270 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John Devereux Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Architecture Sketch Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 17:23:52 +0100 Message-ID: <87iqyjjdd3.fsf@cordelia.devereux.me.uk> References: <87abjvxncs.fsf@googlemail.com> <87mynvjfr9.fsf@cordelia.devereux.me.uk> <4804D180.9000501@wxs.nl> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1208278351 27355 80.91.229.12 (15 Apr 2008 16:52:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 16:52:31 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Tue Apr 15 18:52:48 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Jlnyg-0001U5-RV for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:25:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 968E31FC82; Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:25:10 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 09067-04-3; Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:24:36 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28EB81FC93; Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:24:32 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03B441FC93 for ; Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:24:30 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 08766-05 for ; Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:23:53 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from cordelia.devereux.me.uk (devereux.me.uk [217.169.15.178]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 337C61FB77 for ; Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:23:53 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [217.169.15.178] (helo=cordelia.devereux.me.uk ident=jd) by cordelia.devereux.me.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Jlnwm-00082F-UJ for ntg-context@ntg.nl; Tue, 15 Apr 2008 17:23:52 +0100 In-Reply-To: <4804D180.9000501@wxs.nl> (Hans Hagen's message of "Tue\, 15 Apr 2008 18\:02\:08 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.95 (gnu/linux) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:40270 Archived-At: Hans Hagen writes: > John Devereux wrote: >> "Idris Samawi Hamid" writes: >> >>> On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 08:38:20 -0600, luigi scarso >>> wrote: >>> >>>> And use linux. >>> Well Hans, the lead developer uses windows ;-) and from the messages I see >>> on this list the linux people tend to run into more installation/format >>> problems :-D >> >> And I suspect these two facts are related.. :) > > well, luatex/mkiv runs happily on our linux servers; my development > machine runs vista, and taco's runs linux and we happily generatet > multiple new formats per day ... I am only teasing. I love context, and have been using it for years now on linux. But I only get to use it intermittently, and only rarely get involved with the installation itself... > the main ingredients for a working set > up are: TEXMF, TEXMFCNF and sometimes TEXMFCACHE (keep in mind that > traditional tex distribiutions can have hard coded paths and assumptions) ...so I forget the mechanics of how tex is configured and how it finds everything. Thanks, -- John Devereux ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________