From: Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: ConTeXt standalone - in what situations is it better?
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 14:57:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALBOmsYx3v7YGwqsOMwnVn-XU51zx-e3-GqnaCG-G+EDBaYOiA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52690ED2.40402@sil.org>
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 2:13 PM, Lars Huttar wrote:
>
> The other issue for me with Standalone is that the only version listed
> for Windows is "W32TeX". When I go to the web page for that platform, I
> don't see any information about what W32TeX is; just how to install it.
> It sounds like it's specific to 32-bit systems, and mine is 64-bit. But
> I suppose in that regard it's no different from TeXLive -- the
> executables are 32-bit but they run fine on 64-bit systems.
http://w32tex.org/
It's another distribution created by a Japanese guru for compiling
binaries with Visual Studio. You don't need to install W32TeX
yourself, but those binaries are used in both TeX Live and ConTeXt
distribution, so you basically get the same binaries (only maybe
slightly newer version with ConTeXt distribution). And yes, the
binaries work fine on a 64-bit system. Since recently there are 64-bit
binaries available, but I didn't manage to fix the scripts yet to
fetch those binaries when applicable.
> Does anybody have advice for me on other reasons for switching from
> TeXLive to ConTeXt Standalone, or reasons not to?
If TeX Live works for you, there is no real need to switch, but if you
ever need a patch or some new functionality, it would be easier to use
the latest version.
Mojca
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-24 12:13 Lars Huttar
2013-10-24 12:57 ` Mojca Miklavec [this message]
2013-10-24 14:10 ` john Culleton
2013-10-24 14:18 ` Aditya Mahajan
2013-10-24 21:16 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2013-10-24 14:15 ` Aditya Mahajan
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