From: Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>,
Nigel King <nigel@nigelking.me.uk>
Subject: Re: LuaTex on Windows PCs
Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2019 17:35:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a3c8df3a-7c5b-897c-e3bc-10cba34d6457@xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9F352B8E-9188-4FD6-8DF6-99285DE43E29@nigelking.me.uk>
On 3/4/2019 4:58 PM, Nigel King wrote:
> Hi All,
> I have been using ConTeXt on Macs for >20 years. Having written a
> particular piece of code for others to operate who have PCs, I am now
> stuck.
>
> I upgraded to LuaTeX some time ago as recommended on this list.
>
> IT do not seem to be able to install a working version of LuaTeX on PCs.
> I have directed them to ConTeXt Garden but they have had no luck.
>
> Do any of you have guaranteed pointers to a simple installation on PCs?
> Simple editing and creating (from ConTeXt) the PDFs is all that is required.
The installation page really needs an update ... the starting point is
here:
https://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_Standalone
download
http://minimals.contextgarden.net/setup/context-setup-mswin.zip
http://minimals.contextgarden.net/setup/context-setup-win64.zip
unzip someplace, then run
first-setup.bat
etc
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-03-04 15:58 Nigel King
2019-03-04 16:35 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2019-03-04 21:12 ` Jan Tosovsky
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