ConTeXt in texlive

ConTeXt in texlive

[Fengnan Gao]

Hi all,

I have some problem when using ConTeXt in tl08,
when I type
        luatools --generate
my cmd windows says like this
   >C:\Users\fnsteed>context --make
   >
   >MtxRun | error unable to locate
texmfcnf.luaShould I create the cache path C:\Us
   >ers\fnsteed\? [yes|no] [no] y
   >
   >fatal error: there is no valid cache path
defined

or like this

   >C:\Users\fnsteed>luatools --generate
   >
   >LuaTools | error unable to locate texmfcnf.lua
   >LuaTools | loading
d:/texlive/2008/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnfShould I
create the cach
   >e path C:\Users\fnsteed\? [yes|no] [no]
   >
   >fatal error: there is no valid cache path
defined

I don't exactly know what that means but clearly I
cannot use ConTeXt. Can someone help me?

Thanks.

Cheers;

  Fengnan <fnsteed@hotmail.com>
 

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Re: ConTeXt in texlive

[Hans Hagen]

Fengnan Gao wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have some problem when using ConTeXt in tl08,
> when I type
>         luatools --generate
> my cmd windows says like this
>    >C:\Users\fnsteed>context --make
>    >
>    >MtxRun | error unable to locate
> texmfcnf.luaShould I create the cache path C:\Us
>    >ers\fnsteed\? [yes|no] [no] y
>    >
>    >fatal error: there is no valid cache path
> defined
> 
> or like this
> 
>    >C:\Users\fnsteed>luatools --generate
>    >
>    >LuaTools | error unable to locate texmfcnf.lua
>    >LuaTools | loading
> d:/texlive/2008/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnfShould I
> create the cach
>    >e path C:\Users\fnsteed\? [yes|no] [no]
>    >
>    >fatal error: there is no valid cache path
> defined
> 
> I don't exactly know what that means but clearly I
> cannot use ConTeXt. Can someone help me?

just use the minimals ... then you have the latest binaries and sources

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Re: ConTeXt in texlive

[Wolfgang Schuster]

On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 10:07 AM, Fengnan Gao <fnsteed@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have some problem when using ConTeXt in tl08,
> when I type
>        luatools --generate
> my cmd windows says like this
>   >C:\Users\fnsteed>context --make
>   >
>   >MtxRun | error unable to locate
> texmfcnf.luaShould I create the cache path C:\Us
>   >ers\fnsteed\? [yes|no] [no] y
>   >
>   >fatal error: there is no valid cache path
> defined

Read the item about "texmfcnf.lua"

http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Running_Mark_IV#File_not_found

Wolfgang
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Re: ConTeXt in texlive versus Minimal ConTeXt

[Maurice Diamantini]

Le 13 nov. 08 à 10:45, Hans Hagen a écrit :

> Fengnan Gao wrote:
>> I have some problem when using ConTeXt in tl08,
>> ...
>> I don't exactly know what that means but clearly I
>> cannot use ConTeXt. Can someone help me?
>
> just use the minimals ... then you have the latest binaries and  
> sources


Is there any advantage (for ConTeXt) of using the Texlive (other
than being multi-platform!) or other full xTeX distribution?

If the "minimal ConTeXt" is the only standard way of using a full
ConTeXt, then it could be rename "maximal" ;-)
or more seriously something lire "standard", "hot" or
"independant" (longish)

-- Maurice


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Re: ConTeXt in texlive versus Minimal ConTeXt

[Marcin Borkowski]

Dnia Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 08:31:54AM +0100, Maurice Diamantini napisał(a):
> 
> Le 13 nov. 08 à 10:45, Hans Hagen a écrit :
> 
> > Fengnan Gao wrote:
> >> I have some problem when using ConTeXt in tl08,
> >> ...
> >> I don't exactly know what that means but clearly I
> >> cannot use ConTeXt. Can someone help me?
> >
> > just use the minimals ... then you have the latest binaries and  
> > sources
> 
> 
> Is there any advantage (for ConTeXt) of using the Texlive (other
> than being multi-platform!) or other full xTeX distribution?

Yes.  If you use _both_ ConTeXt and LaTeX (and some of us - including me
- are kind of forced to use LaTeX, too, because of:
* having a number of old LaTeX files which wuold be a trouble to
  convert;
* sending papers to journals accepting LaTeX;
* writing LaTeX stuff to order)

Personally I'd find it inconvenient to have two TeX trees and having to
change my environment to use one or another.  (Possibly, I could arrange
it so that I don't have to change any environment variables, but still,
since I don't need the state-of-the-art MkIV, texlive is ok for me.)

> 
> If the "minimal ConTeXt" is the only standard way of using a full
> ConTeXt, then it could be rename "maximal" ;-)
> or more seriously something lire "standard", "hot" or
> "independant" (longish)

Well, it is "minimal" in the sense of dependencies, I guess.

> 
> -- Maurice

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Re: ConTeXt in texlive versus Minimal ConTeXt

[Hans Hagen]

Maurice Diamantini wrote:
> Le 13 nov. 08 à 10:45, Hans Hagen a écrit :
> 
>> Fengnan Gao wrote:
>>> I have some problem when using ConTeXt in tl08,
>>> ...
>>> I don't exactly know what that means but clearly I
>>> cannot use ConTeXt. Can someone help me?
>> just use the minimals ... then you have the latest binaries and  
>> sources
> 
> 
> Is there any advantage (for ConTeXt) of using the Texlive (other
> than being multi-platform!) or other full xTeX distribution?

tex live is fine for mkii but for mkiv you need recent binaries and 
macros (tex live was frozen before the summer)

> If the "minimal ConTeXt" is the only standard way of using a full
> ConTeXt, then it could be rename "maximal" ;-)

well, if you choose to install only one engine, then it's really much 
smaller -)

(a full tex live installation is about 1.5 gig; i just run context dev 
on top of tex live but in projects and such i use minimals)

Hans


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Re: ConTeXt in texlive versus Minimal ConTeXt

[Hans Hagen]

Marcin Borkowski wrote:

> Well, it is "minimal" in the sense of dependencies, I guess.

and also in the sense that there is much left out that would never be 
used at all; once luatex/mkiv is stable and once we have open type math 
fonts, even more font stuff can go away (since xetex does not need it 
either)

keep in mind that small trees run faster (when kpse is used)

also, they archive better (think of running 10 projects on a machine 
where each needs a frozen tree)

another feature of the minimals is that by default they support 
texmf-project and texmf-fonts which makes separation of project specific 
files (and fonts) as well as commercial fonts more convenient.

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