Thanks, Aditya. This is very helpful.

Alan


On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 11:24 AM, Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu> wrote:

> On Sat, 31 Aug 2013, Alan Bowen wrote:
>
>  I would like to install two ConTeXt trees on my laptop, one for work in
>> progress and another for testing, and to run them using TeXShop (if that
>> is
>> feasible).
>>
>> Are there any instructions for this? I have searched the wiki and TeXShop
>> help files but have not seen anything that indicates how to do this.
>>
>
> I routinely do this. Lets say you want to install two version of context,
> context-beta and context-stable. Then, download and copy first-setup.sh in
> both directories, and run:
>
>    cd context-beta && first-setup
>    cd context-stable && first-setup --context=current
>
> Now, you can run
>
>    source path-to-context-beta/tex/**setuptex && context filename
>
> to compile a file using context beta and
>
>    source path-to-context-stable/tex/**setptex && context filename
>
> to compile a file using context stable.
>
> Aditya
>
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