From: luigi scarso <luigi.scarso@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Standalone Installation Question
Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2013 16:05:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAG5iGsA6JcVLOGNAm5QhaT3wyEF0+-Ht4HHOaaUJFaqraWhMcQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131020225448.3780@binki>
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On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 3:54 PM, <hwitloc@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes I saw the Windows version of Context mentioned and read it, but the
> documentation is,
> in this case, wrong or not fully correct. This is because I am now using
> Context which comes is included in the TexLive distribution, selected with
> Unix like operating systems. No bat files or other ancillary code or
> invokations are necessary.
>
> Texlive's Context program would probably not run directly on Microsoft
> Windows O.S.
>
hm, my experience is the opposite: texlive context runs on Windows, but I
don't use it because the standalone also works under Windows.
(I use the texlive for all the rest, btw).
I believe that the documentation can be expanded to cover using a Context
> on Cygwin directly and not the Microsoft port which requires the usage of
> strange Microsoft pathnames, with C:\ and \ seperators.
>
> Using context on cygwin for cygwin may only have been done in TexLive for
> Unix like systems, but I'd like to use and test on the bleeding edge MKIV.
> But, that proves that it can be done. I just don't know what was done.
>
> In this case I think it's better to use the standalone directly on Windows.
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luigi
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-20 14:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-20 7:52 hwitloc
2013-10-20 8:58 ` luigi scarso
2013-10-20 9:23 ` d.henman
2013-10-20 9:46 ` luigi scarso
2013-10-20 13:54 ` hwitloc
2013-10-20 14:05 ` luigi scarso [this message]
2013-10-20 16:06 ` hwitloc
2013-10-22 10:04 ` Mojca Miklavec
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