From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/15034 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "George N. White III" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: RE: Baffling error Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 08:44:53 -0300 Organization: Bedford Institute of Oceanography Sender: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Message-ID: References: Reply-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1082202422 30334 80.91.224.253 (17 Apr 2004 11:47:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 11:47:02 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Sat Apr 17 13:46:50 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from ref.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.13] helo=ref.ntg.nl) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BEoHa-00009r-00 for ; Sat, 17 Apr 2004 13:46:50 +0200 Original-Received: from ref.ntg.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FCB610B6A; Sat, 17 Apr 2004 13:43:15 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: from bionet.bio.dfo.ca (46xt.mar.dfo-mpo.gc.ca [142.176.61.194]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0F4C10B68 for ; Sat, 17 Apr 2004 13:41:35 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: from montigo.bio.dfo.ca ([142.2.20.184]) by bionet.bio.dfo.ca (PMDF V5.2-32 #39490) with ESMTP id <0HWB0052VCMH56@bionet.bio.dfo.ca> for ntg-context@ntg.nl; Sat, 17 Apr 2004 08:44:41 -0300 (ADT) In-reply-to: X-X-Sender: gwhite@montigo.bio.dfo.ca Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:15034 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:15034 On Fri, 16 Apr 2004, Paulo Ney de Souza wrote: > This is part of the problem, I am in a Unix shared environment, where I > have to place a request for the software to be updated and wait another > year ... Shared environments are tricky -- one user may be writing a book and needs assurances that nothing will change while another user needs bug fixes, not to mention questions about "features" that may pose security risks. Fortunately it is not hard to maintain multiple TeX environments on a single shared system. Unless you encounter a bug in pdftex you should be able to use the current version of ConTeXt with the shared binaries. To do this: 1. unzip ConTeXt in to your local texmf tree, e.g., $HOME/texmf 2. create your own $HOME/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf (probably by editing the one from the shared install -- it should be self-documenting) and enable it by setting TEXMFCNF=$HOME/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf Note that you will want to have it put the fmt files in a directory you control, e.g., $HOME/texmf/web2c 3. depending on the shared distro, you may need install the current perl scripts in a directory on your path (recent systems use scripts that run kpathsea to find the updated scripts from $HOME/texmf/context/perltk). If you have space, you can also simply install a complete distro (e.g. TeX Live) in a directory of your choosing. TeX Live and teTeX can even be moved to a new location without breaking things -- normally all you need to do is adjust the PATH variable to reflect the new location. If you do this very often it is worthwhile learning to use the environment-modules package so you can switch between multiple TeX configurations. It is standard on SGI Irix and can be installed from rpm's on linux or compiled from sources (it needs tk/tcl). > I am going to install Linux on my laptop and then move everything over > there and see how does it go ... These days it is easy to have a current TeX on linux, but if TeX is tightly integrated with a project that requires a big shared system moving files to a laptop may not be practical. -- George N. White III Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada