Thanks, Otared! That is very helpful indeed. I now have access to each of
the ConTeXt trees via TeXShop—and a sensible way to explore why the ConTeXt
betas since August 5 have not worked so well with my files.

All best, Alan


On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 1:54 PM, Otared Kavian <otared@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Alan,
>
> Using TeXShop on MacOS X you can create two files named «
> mkiv-stable.engine » and « mkiv-testing.engine » and put them in the folder
>
>         Library/TeXShop/Engines
>
> The first file « mkiv-stable.engine » contains the following:
>         #!/bin/bash
>
>         source [path-to-your-context-minimal-stable-folder]/tex/setuptex
>         context --autogenerate --synctex=1 "$1"
>
> and the second file « mkiv-testing.engine » contains
>         #!/bin/bash
>
>         source [path-to-your-context-minimal-testing-folder]/tex/setuptex
>         context --autogenerate --synctex=1 "$1"
>
> (personnaly I add also
>         rm -f *.tui *.log *.tuo *.xdv *.mp *.tmp *.top *-mpgraph.*
> *-mpgraph-temp.dvi *.tuc
> at the end of each of the files to remove auxiliary files, but you must be
> careful with removing such files as *.mp…).
>
> Then when you open anew TeXShop, you'll see in a small menu on top of each
> of your TeX file where you can choose to typeset your file with either
> mkiv-stable or mkiv-testing.
> Or you can add at the top of your TeX file the following line:
>         %!TEX TS-program = mkiv-stable
> or
>         %!TEX TS-program = mkiv-testing
>
> In case you would like to use mkii you should replace the line
>         context --autogenerate --synctex=1 "$1"
> with
>         texexec --autogenerate --synctex=1 "$1"
> and create an engine file named « mkii.engine »
> That's it.
> I hope this would be useful to you.
> Best regards: OK
>
> On 31 août 2013, at 14:12, Alan Bowen <bowenalan03@gmail.com> 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 currently have a system-wide installation of the ConTeXt standalone.
> >
> > Alan
> >
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