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* Re: Installing ConTeXt Minimals on a Mac
@ 2008-09-01  0:05 Michael Green
  2008-09-01 16:06 ` Alan Bowen
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From: Michael Green @ 2008-09-01  0:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Alan Bowen wrote:
> 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

.bash_profile should be saved as a text file at the top level of your  
user account. That is, it should go right alongside the directories  
that are standardly installed, like Documents, Library, Movies, Music,  
Pictures, Public, and Sites.

Note 1: the dot in front means it won't be visible in the Finder,  
absent further fiddling and trickery.

Note 2: if you're using TeXShop, I think that these sorts of  
instructions go in "engine" files. If you look at the "mac newbie"  
installation instructions, you'll see that the bit about "source ..."  
is put into an engine file. I suspect, though I don't know, that the  
TEXMFHOME and TEXMF lines would be incorporated in a similar way.

This may be an easier route to trying this sort of thing out than  
using .bash_profile. It may be *much* easier if you're supporting  
other people. Again, I don't know.

By the way, Oliver B's problem appears to be resolved. Changes in the  
personal texmf tree are picked up now, without further intervention by  
the user.

Good luck!

Michael

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* Installing ConTeXt Minimals on a Mac
@ 2008-08-30 10:16 Alan Bowen
  2008-09-01  7:16 ` Mojca Miklavec
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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







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2008-09-01 17:27       ` Alan Bowen
2008-09-01 17:43         ` Mojca Miklavec
2008-09-01 20:18           ` Alan Bowen
2008-09-01 21:19             ` Mojca Miklavec
2008-09-01 21:43               ` Alan Bowen
2008-09-01 22:24                 ` Andrea Valle
2008-09-01 22:02               ` Aditya Mahajan
2008-09-01 20:43           ` Alan Bowen
2008-09-01 21:38             ` Mojca Miklavec
2008-09-01 22:13               ` Alan Bowen
2008-09-01 22:22                 ` Mojca Miklavec
2008-09-01 22:50                   ` Alan Bowen
2008-09-01 23:03                     ` Alan Bowen
2008-09-02  8:04                     ` Mojca Miklavec
2008-09-02 16:18                       ` Alan Bowen
2008-09-01 22:24                 ` Aditya Mahajan
2008-09-02 18:42               ` Alan Bowen
2008-09-02 18:54                 ` Mojca Miklavec
2008-09-02 19:34                   ` Alan Bowen
2008-09-03 16:22                     ` Mojca Miklavec

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