Updating modules with a ppa:reviczky/context-daily installation

Updating modules with a ppa:reviczky/context-daily installation

[Michael Ash]

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I have a question about how to update context modules.

In earlier correspondence
Question:  I am still having a problem with...[the letter module]
Answer:  This is now fixed...

I use a context installation managed by ubuntu/apt-get from the Personal
Package Archive *ppa:reviczky/context-daily* (
https://launchpad.net/~reviczky/+archive/context-daily). The current
version is:
ConTeXt  ver: 2013.07.24 14:11 MKIV beta  fmt: 2013.7.31  int:
english/english

How is it possible to (1) tell which version of a module is installed? (2)
update a module to the latest version?

Because I use the PPA version, I have not used first-setup.sh.  I have only
a limited understanding of where the context supporting material is
maintained.

Thank you very much for your guidance.

Best,
Michael

PS Thank you very much for the guidance on the correspondence documentation
and the reference line alternatives in the letter module
> BTW are the values for the "alternative" key ("example", "e", "c", etc.)
documented somewhere?
You can look at the predefined arguments in the old manual which is
available online: https://bitbucket.org/wolfs/correspondence/downloads.

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Re: Updating modules with a ppa:reviczky/context-daily installation

[Michael Ash]

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I would like to bump my question back into the queue.  Thank you for your
consideration.

I would also like to add:  where can I put files that I would like context
to "see".  For example if I have a file "env_letter.tex" which I include
with \environment env_letter that includes a bunch of boilerplate, what is
a good directory to put it in?

Thanks.

Michael


On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 9:57 AM, Michael Ash <mash@econs.umass.edu> wrote:

> I have a question about how to update context modules.
>
> In earlier correspondence
> Question:  I am still having a problem with...[the letter module]
> Answer:  This is now fixed...
>
> I use a context installation managed by ubuntu/apt-get from the Personal
> Package Archive *ppa:reviczky/context-daily* (
> https://launchpad.net/~reviczky/+archive/context-daily). The current
> version is:
> ConTeXt  ver: 2013.07.24 14:11 MKIV beta  fmt: 2013.7.31  int:
> english/english
>
> How is it possible to (1) tell which version of a module is installed? (2)
> update a module to the latest version?
>
> Because I use the PPA version, I have not used first-setup.sh.  I have
> only a limited understanding of where the context supporting material is
> maintained.
>
> Thank you very much for your guidance.
>
> Best,
> Michael
>
> PS Thank you very much for the guidance on the correspondence
> documentation and the reference line alternatives in the letter module
> > BTW are the values for the "alternative" key ("example", "e", "c", etc.)
> documented somewhere?
> You can look at the predefined arguments in the old manual which is
> available online: https://bitbucket.org/wolfs/correspondence/downloads.
>



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Professor of Economics and Public Policy
University of Massachusetts Amherst
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Re: Updating modules with a ppa:reviczky/context-daily installation

[Marco Patzer]

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On 2013–08–03 Michael Ash wrote:

> I would like to bump my question back into the queue.  Thank you for your
> consideration.
>
> I would also like to add:  where can I put files that I would like context
> to "see".  For example if I have a file "env_letter.tex" which I include
> with \environment env_letter that includes a bunch of boilerplate, what is
> a good directory to put it in?

I don't use the PPA and I have no idea of how it updates the ConTeXt
tree. It might be that it only updates when a new beta is released
and not every time a third party module is updated, but I don't know
for sure.

first-setup pulls the modules from

  rsync://contextgarden.net/minimals/current/modules/

But updating manually might confuse the package manager. A better
solution if you need to update a module manually is to place it in a
directory, e.g. $HOME/usr/share/texmf and point the environment
variable TEXMFHOME to this directory.

If you need to update a module without touching the installation,
just copy the module (keep the TeX tree intact) to $TEXMFHOME. Check
the log file to ensure that the correct files are being used.

Marco

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