From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/28814 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sanjoy Mahajan Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Newbie questions Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2006 16:46:21 +0100 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1151163994 27717 80.91.229.2 (24 Jun 2006 15:46:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2006 15:46:34 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sat Jun 24 17:46:32 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FuAL9-0005Gr-3D for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sat, 24 Jun 2006 17:46:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id C45951287B; Sat, 24 Jun 2006 17:46:30 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 16216-03-3; Sat, 24 Jun 2006 17:46:26 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06DFB12877; Sat, 24 Jun 2006 17:46:26 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24CA212877 for ; Sat, 24 Jun 2006 17:46:25 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 16216-03-2 for ; Sat, 24 Jun 2006 17:46:23 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mraos.ra.phy.cam.ac.uk (mraos.ra.phy.cam.ac.uk [131.111.48.8]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id 770611286D for ; Sat, 24 Jun 2006 17:46:23 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from skye.ra.phy.cam.ac.uk ([131.111.48.158] ident=mail) by mraos.ra.phy.cam.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FuAKz-0004W9-8O; Sat, 24 Jun 2006 16:46:21 +0100 Original-Received: from sanjoy by skye.ra.phy.cam.ac.uk with local (Exim 3.36 #1) id 1FuAKz-0002OB-00; Sat, 24 Jun 2006 16:46:21 +0100 Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 24 Jun 2006 07:56:54 PDT." X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.7 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:28814 Archived-At: From: Thomas Moore > I have figured out how to download the t-amsl module and can > successfully invoke it as long as the t-amsl.tex file is in the same > folder as my document files. But how do I install it permanently so > that I can invoke it in all my documents? I don't know TeXShop or MacOS but I'm also using teTeX (but on Linux). t-amsl.tex is already in the distribution of ConTeXt that comes with teTeX: $ kpsewhich t-amsl /usr/share/texmf-tetex/tex/context/maths/t-amsl.tex If you don't have t-amsl already in the system path, then the command above won't find it. You could see where similar files live by searching for files that are very likely to exist, such as t-bib or m-graph. If you're using a recent-enough teTeX (I'm using 3.0), then ~/texmf/ is also on the search path and you could put t-amsl.tex somewhere analogous but in ~/texmf/tex/context/. The advantage of ~/texmf over /usr/share/texmf-tetex/ is that the ~/texmf tree, at least in the teTeX 3.0 default texmf.cnf file, is searched without requiring that the file be in the ls-R database, so you don't need to run mktexlsr to regenerate the ls-R databases. The system directories are, in the default config, searched only by looking at the ls-R database (to avoid searching through a directory tree of 6000+ files). One problem to watch for is version skew. The t-amsl.tex that you downloaded might require a more recent ConTeXt than came with teTeX. But maybe that's not an issue since you've been using it in your working directory with no problem. > I am new to ConTexT and TeX (thinking about migrating from > InDesign). Is that for a new edition of _Six Ideas That Shaped Physics_ (an excellent series)? What makes you consider migrating? I haven't used InDesign but I imagine that flowing text around or near figures might be easier with a page-layout program like InDesign (but I'm still learning ConTeXt and as a general rule one can do anything in ConTeXt with enough magic!). On the other hand, math typesetting might be easier and higher-quality in TeX/ConTeXt. Best of luck! -Sanjoy `Never underestimate the evil of which men of power are capable.' --Bertrand Russell, _War Crimes in Vietnam_, chapter 1.