Containerized ConTeXt

Containerized ConTeXt

[Thangalin via ntg-context]

Hi again,

I've added the start of a podman container for invoking ConTeXt that
may be of interest:

https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite/tree/main/container

The Containerfile sets up ConTeXt to work with my themes:

https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite-themes

The manage.sh shell script is a wrapper around the podman command to
help build, save, and load the container, as well as connect and run
commands. It's a work-in-progress.

My goal is to simplify the setup and configuration of ConTeXt as well
as make the instructions "cross platform" owing to containerization.
From there, I want to call out to the container from KeenWrite to
typeset PDF documents using one of the themes. Further, I'd like to
have KeenWrite download and install ConTeXt automatically using
podman. I believe this will make it easier for people to generate
high-quality PDFs from (R) Markdown documents because they'd only have
to download KeenWrite, then ask KeenWrite to download/configure
ConTeXt automatically, in a cross-platform fashion.

Thoughts? Suggestions for improvement?
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Re: Containerized ConTeXt

[Leah Neukirchen via ntg-context]

Thangalin via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl> writes:

> Thoughts? Suggestions for improvement?

If you are looking for technical suggestions, every RUN line will
create a layer even if you delete files later.  I'd suggest making the
final image by copying the root directory of a multistage container,
e.g. https://adriancitu.com/2022/03/11/7-ways-to-build-lighter-linux-containers/

Alternatively, do all the steps before installing ConTeXt in a
multistage container, and run all shell commands that install ConTeXt
in one action, then you get two layers and the lower one only changes
if a font changes (or alpine:latest).

-- 
Leah Neukirchen  <leah@vuxu.org>  https://leahneukirchen.org/
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Re: Containerized ConTeXt

[Henri Menke via ntg-context]

The Island of TeX builds Docker images for ConTeXt weekly.

https://gitlab.com/islandoftex/images/context

registry.gitlab.com/islandoftex/images/context:lmtx

Cheers, Henri

On Tue, 2022-12-13 at 20:56 -0800, Thangalin via ntg-context wrote:
> Hi again,
> 
> I've added the start of a podman container for invoking ConTeXt that
> may be of interest:
> 
> https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite/tree/main/container
> 
> The Containerfile sets up ConTeXt to work with my themes:
> 
> https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite-themes
> 
> The manage.sh shell script is a wrapper around the podman command to
> help build, save, and load the container, as well as connect and run
> commands. It's a work-in-progress.
> 
> My goal is to simplify the setup and configuration of ConTeXt as well
> as make the instructions "cross platform" owing to containerization.
> From there, I want to call out to the container from KeenWrite to
> typeset PDF documents using one of the themes. Further, I'd like to
> have KeenWrite download and install ConTeXt automatically using
> podman. I believe this will make it easier for people to generate
> high-quality PDFs from (R) Markdown documents because they'd only
> have
> to download KeenWrite, then ask KeenWrite to download/configure
> ConTeXt automatically, in a cross-platform fashion.
> 
> Thoughts? Suggestions for improvement?
> _____________________________________________________________________
> ______________
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> entry to the Wiki!
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