Re: Installing ConTeXt Minimals on a Mac

[Alan Bowen <acbowen@princeton.edu>]

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On Sep 1, 2008, at 17;38,50 , Mojca Miklavec wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 10:43 PM, Alan Bowen <acbowen@princeton.edu>  
> wrote:
>>
>> On Sep 1, 2008, at 13;43,19 , Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>>
>>>> On Sep 1, 2008, at 12;24,41 , Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>>>>
>>>> For setting HOMETEXMF you can help yourself, though it would be  
>>>> nice
>>>> if we provided a solution that worked out of the box. But I would
>>>> like
>>>> to get a confirmation from Hans that it's OK to do that.
>>>>
>>>> I have modified the texmf.cnf in
>>>> ./Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf/web2c with the lines
>>>> export HOMETEXMF=~/Library/texmf
>>>> export
>>>> TEXMF='{$TEXMFHOME,$TEXMFLOCAL,!!$TEXMFOS,!!$TEXMFCONTEXT,!!
>>>> $TEXMFEXTRA,!!$TEXMFMAIN}'
>>>> but ConTeXt still does not find my personal texmf folder
>>>
>>> I probably told you wrong, but:
>>> 1.) you have HOMETEXMF first and then TEXMFHOME: these need to be
>>> equal
>>> 2.) unless you are following (3), don't modify the file in texmf/,
>>> but create
>>> /Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-local/web2c/texmf.cnf
>>> instead, else the file will be overwritten at first update
>>> 3.) even then I'm not completely sure, but I guess that  
>>> environmental
>>> variables override settings in texmf.cnf, so you either need to
>>> a) modify setuptex (rename it and run the renamed file instead of
>>> setuptex)
>>> b) only export PATH and not run setuptex at all; in that case values
>>> from texmf.cnf will be used
>>> - maybe you need to run "mktexlsr" or "luatools --generate"
>>>>
>>
>> OK. One quick reply just to see if I am on track.
>>
>> I have created /Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-local/web2c/
>> texmf.cnf
>> where texmf.cnf now has
>> export HOMETEXMF=~/Library/texmf
>> export TEXMF='{$HOMETEXMF,$TEXMFLOCAL,!!$TEXMFOS,!!$TEXMFCONTEXT,!!
>
> (hopefully the line continues ...)
>
> The lines you have written here belong to "setuptex", not to
> texmf.cnf. The syntax for setuptex is slightly different.
>
> HOMETEXMF     = ~/Library/texmf
> # single line
> TEXMF = {$HOMETEXMF,!!$TEXMFPROJECT,!!$TEXMFFONTS,!!$TEXMFLOCAL,!! 
> $TEXMFCONTEXT,!!$TEXMFEXTRA,!!$TEXMFMAIN}
>
> But try putting™
>   export HOMETEXMF=~/Library/texmf
> # single line
>   export TEXMF='{$HOMETEXMF,$TEXMFLOCAL,!!$TEXMFOS,!!$TEXMFCONTEXT,!! 
> $TEXMFEXTRA,!!$TEXMFMAIN}'
>
> into setuptex (replace the old variables). The problem is that if you
> adapt texmf.cnf only, you still override those settings with setuptex.

I hope I have understood this properly.  I now have
HOMETEXMF     = ~/Library/texmf
TEXMF = {$HOMETEXMF,!!$TEXMFPROJECT,!!$TEXMFFONTS,!!$TEXMFLOCAL,!!
in my /ConteXtMinimals/tex/texmf-local/texmf.cnf.

I have also inserted the lines
export HOMETEXMF=~/Library/texmf
and
export TEXMF='{$HOMETEXMF,$TEXMFLOCAL,!!$TEXMFOS,!!$TEXMFCONTEXT,!! 
$TEXMFEXTRA,!!$TEXMFMAIN}'

into a file formed by copying the content of setuptex.

But before I can test this, assuming that so far is so good, I need to  
turn my setuptex (which is natively a .tex file) into unix executable.  
How do I do this?

Alan

> There is one thing that you could try (I never use TeXShop, but
> there's a change that it works):
>
>
> ~/Library/TeXShop/Engines/ConTeXt-pdfTeX.engine
>
> #!/bin/bash
> export PATH=/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-osx-intel:$PATH
> texexec "$1"
>
> ~/Library/TeXShop/Engines/ConTeXt-luaTeX.engine
>
> #!/bin/bash
> export PATH=/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-osx-intel:$PATH
> export TEXMFCACHE=/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-cache
> context "$1"
>
> ~/Library/TeXShop/Engines/ConTeXt-XeTeX.engine
>
> #!/bin/bash
> export PATH=/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-osx-intel:$PATH
> texexec --xtx "$1"
>
> (sorry for two different proposals - I should probably only send you a
> single one)
>
> Mojca
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