From: John Devereux <jdREMOVE@THISdevereux.me.uk>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Geeze, I might try Linux after all... (not too off-tpic I hope)
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:53:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mylpz8ry.fsf@cordelia.devereux.me.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1213364262.12924.31.camel@elbereth> (Charles P. Schaum's message of "Fri\, 13 Jun 2008 08\:37\:42 -0500")
"Charles P. Schaum" <verbo.solo@sbcglobal.net> writes:
[...]
>
> I'm torn between a TeX packaged "distro" and independent construction
> either via TeX Live itself or DIY'ing it from CTAN. OTOH it's nice not
> to have to build your own texmf tree; but it can be done and I've done
> it by following the specs. Then again, if you are not LaTeXing things,
> you might not need it. It gives one, however, a certain air of
> self-gratification to master mktexlsr and have kpsewhich find stuff.
I use Debian. Context seems to be well supported, with recent packages
(thanks to Norbert Preining I believe). Ubuntu should be fine too (it
is a debian derivative) and perhaps more polished for a new user.
[...]
--
John Devereux
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-13 14:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-13 10:28 Alan Stone
[not found] ` <326847810806130328k73f9ed0bw4ec3ede296a29d55@mail.gmail.co m>
2008-06-13 10:42 ` Alan Stone
2008-06-13 12:09 ` luigi scarso
2008-06-13 12:38 ` Michael Hallgren
2008-06-13 13:07 ` Diego Depaoli
2008-06-13 12:53 ` Olivier Guéry
2008-06-13 13:37 ` Charles P. Schaum
2008-06-13 14:53 ` John Devereux [this message]
2008-06-14 6:20 ` Alan Stone
2008-06-14 7:29 ` Alan Stone
2008-06-14 7:40 ` Taco Hoekwater
2008-06-14 9:07 ` luigi scarso
2008-06-14 9:38 ` Matija Šuklje
2008-06-14 11:25 ` John Culleton
2008-06-19 19:40 ` Alan Stone
2008-06-20 6:37 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2008-06-20 6:45 ` Alan Stone
2008-06-20 7:03 ` Mojca Miklavec
2008-06-20 8:17 ` Alan Stone
2008-06-20 12:21 ` Alan Stone
2008-06-20 12:27 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2008-06-20 13:39 ` Alan Stone
2008-06-20 14:31 ` Mojca Miklavec
2008-06-20 16:21 ` Alan Stone
2008-06-20 21:05 ` Aditya Mahajan
2008-06-21 7:44 ` Alan Stone
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