Re: Installing ConTeXt Minimals on a Mac

[Alan Bowen <acbowen@princeton.edu>]

Thanks, Michael; this is very helpful. I will prepare a .bash_profile  
file and try it out. Where did you put your .bash_profile file?

Alan

On Aug 31, 2008, at 13;09,32 , Michael Green wrote:

> On Aug 30, 2008, Alan Bowen wrote:
>
>> What follows are some queries that I will be happy to write up for  
>> the
>> wiki. The aim (hope?) is to develop a set of instructions for
>> installing the minimals on a Mac that a Mac user without any real
>> knowledge of unix (such as myself) can follow easily. (There are a
>> number of people scattered around the world who help me in producing
>> various publications; and since they too are not unix savvy, I need
>> such instructions if we are to keep our installations functioning and
>> up to date.)
>>
>> Once the ConTeXt minimals are installed in the Applications folder  
>> and
>> the user can run
>> \starttext
>> Hello world!
>> \stoptext
>> which is where the wiki (Installation>section 1.2) currently leaves
>> off, there still remain a few tasks.
>>
>> Specifically,
>>
>> (a) getting this ConTeXt installation to recognize a personal texmf
>> directory
>>
>> (b) running the various binaries (e.g., texmfstart, ctxtools) in /
>> Applications/ConTeXtMinimals from Terminal
>>
>> (c) establishing synchronization between  PDF output and its ConTeXt
>> source. Currently, it does not seem to work (with TeXShop at least)
>> 	Note, in the latest TeXShop there is
>> Added support for SyncTeX. SyncTeX is new synchronization technology
>> by Jerome Laurens which is included in TeX Live 2008 (but not earlier
>> TeX distributions). The technology is built directly into pdfTeX and
>> XeTeX. In modern TeX distributions, most typesetting actually calls
>> pdfetex (even if using latex to output a dvi file), and thus the
>> technology is available for such typesetting. To use the technology,
>> add the flag --synctex=1
>>
>> Any advice on how to do (a), (b), and (c) will be much appreciated.
>>
>> Alan
>>
>>
>
> I installed ConTeXt Minimals in my home directory's Applications
> folder (not the applications folder for the system as a whole). I'm
> reluctant to write in because my understanding of what I'm doing is
> shallow and I haven't used my solution beyond a few simple tests.
>
> With that said, adding the following three lines to .bash_profile
> seems to work for me.
>
> source ~/Applications/context/tex/setuptex ~/Applications/context/tex
> TEXMFHOME=$HOME/Library/texmf
> TEXMF={$TEXMFHOME,!!$TEXMFPROJECT,!!$TEXMFFONTS,!!$TEXMFLOCAL,!!
> $TEXMFCONTEXT,!!$TEXMFEXTRA,!!$TEXMFMAIN}
>
> Here is how I understand what I did.
>
> (A) I think that the second and third lines (TEXMFHOME ... and
> TEXMF ...) handle issue (a).
>
> I copied them from a message I read on the developer list.
>
> http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/
> 20080607.102038.6212fc3c.en.html
>
> I should add that the author, Oliver Buerschaper wrote to complain
> that additions to the personal texmf tree were not automatically
> recognized. He had to run luatools --generate again after changing
> something. I have no idea if this has been fixed since June, when he
> wrote his message. I assume it has, but haven't tested it.
>
> (B) I think that the first line (source ...) handles issue (b). It
> tells the shell to look for TeX binaries in ~/Applications/context/ 
> tex.
>
> This is the second instruction from the Linux/Mac/BSD section of the
> wiki's installation page, modified for my particular case.
>
> http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_Minimals#Linux.2FMac.2FFreeBSD
>
> Michael
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