From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/22363 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Gavin Sinclair Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Problem following "OpenType installation basics for ConTeXt" article Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 01:13:36 +1000 Message-ID: References: <20050907062707.16465@mail.comp.lancs.ac.uk> <6faad9f0050907085475daec15@mail.gmail.com> <431FEF3C.9080002@wxs.nl> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1126192791 26971 80.91.229.2 (8 Sep 2005 15:19:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 15:19:51 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Sep 08 17:19:43 2005 Return-path: 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 1EDO5w-0004ne-5X for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Sep 2005 17:13:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADF0A127E8; Thu, 8 Sep 2005 17:13:43 +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 20346-05-3; Thu, 8 Sep 2005 17:13:39 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAE99127D3; Thu, 8 Sep 2005 17:13:39 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBB20127CF for ; Thu, 8 Sep 2005 17:13:38 +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 20346-05-2 for ; Thu, 8 Sep 2005 17:13:37 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.198]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C866127D3 for ; Thu, 8 Sep 2005 17:13:37 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 8so1078105nzo for ; Thu, 08 Sep 2005 08:13:36 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=LvKFYtGON5RIwrEEeGKtmsOZO+UuoUx6wwWmeGrwXQTC1DXeqjicOsc2s3hvdFBkOXklUrSXpm7DLSr94gV7b7XmonluvHt+m+7qHXP0p9oe5++KflSonCwhvQg6Co+zn8jMaZBMvMF4nYQjRyJWc1hw4xNs+xMdb/lBWaAxmw4= Original-Received: by 10.36.220.37 with SMTP id s37mr3238011nzg; Thu, 08 Sep 2005 08:13:36 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.36.159.3 with HTTP; Thu, 8 Sep 2005 08:13:36 -0700 (PDT) Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <431FEF3C.9080002@wxs.nl> Content-Disposition: inline X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on smtp.ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:22363 Archived-At: On 9/8/05, Hans Hagen wrote: > > [...] I guess I'll give the mswincontext.zip a try. > > I've hesitated because I don't see any clear instructions anywhere > >and the directory structure in that zip file is unusual for a Windows > >distro. Also don't want to ditch MiKTeX entirely because I'm > >experimenting with LyX. Sigh... > > > >How about just installing ConTeXt myself on top of MiKTeX? Should work,= right? > > just unzip the file in some safe place, running 'setuptex' (in a dos box)= should give you an isolated tex environment; it's on my agenda to provide = a miktex bintree as well, but only for testing since miktex has a rather go= od update mechanism (no reason to duplicate that -) >=20 > [my main reason for putting the minimals on the web is that they provide = isolated environments, which is somethign i need for projects]; they also d= emonstrate what is needed for context By "isolated tex environment" I presume you mean "an environment that only runs in that dos box". Is that right? Does that isolated environment clash with another TeX installation (i.e. MiKTeX in this case)? I'm led to believe TeX installations are very territorial: they can't tolerate other installations on the same computer! Thanks, Gavin