Re: Coming back to ConTeXt

[Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 2:47 PM, Alain Delmotte wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  I decided to give another try to ConTeXt.
>  I already did two years ago, I think, but I had problems mostly because of
> the lack of documentation for MkIV.
>  Having a more or less strong knowledge and experience of LaTeX doesn't
> help!!!
>
>  This time:
>  I did not succeed to install a stand alone version.

Tell us more about the specific problems.

>  Following the discussions on ntg-context, there often is solution using one
> of hte latest version of ConTeXt, so I have a first question: is it possible
> to update the TeX Live ConTeXt and its associated files?

I would suggest you to do the following:
- Add tlcontrib to the list of repositories and update luatex and
ConTeXt from there (http://tlcontrib.metatex.org/usage.html).
- You can add the latest version of ConTeXt to texmf-local or
$TEXMFHOME (usually $HOME/texmf, but may be set to a different place)
or to some other place. You can clone a git repository
(https://gitorious.org/context) there for example (just make sure that
you don't use one extra directory).
- Apart from that you need to make sure that mtxrun will be taken from
the latest ConTeXt. There are different options to achieve that. (Add
$HOME/bin to PATH and put a symlink or copy of mtxrun there, or any
other option that comes to your mind.)

Mojca
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