From: Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Minimals - how to use?
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 18:53:10 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0804221850380.24178@nqv-yncgbc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080422131640909997.38e462e5@gmail.com>
On Tue, 22 Apr 2008, David wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:15:42 +0200, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 6:08 AM, David wrote:
>>>
>>> Now my stupid question: How do I actually *use* the
>>> minimal ConTeXt installation?
>>
>> Hello David,
>>
>> I have the following line in my .bash_profile (but you can issue that
>> manually if you want to use LaTeX from the other distribution as
>> well):
>>
>> . context/tex/setuptex context/tex
>>
>> Mojca
>>
>> PS: I will add that instruction at the end of first-setup.sh
>
>
> Thank you - this was indeed the step I was missing, and now it works.
>
> For my purposes (my requirements are not large, I'm not in a hurry, and
> I don't want to waste time learning multiple ways of doing things), I
> have decided to do everything strictly in mkiv - no mkii and no latex.
> I want to learn the future habits and methods now, and drop the old
> ones right away. For me, is the command
>
> texexec --lua myfile.tex
>
> the best way to work, or is there something else I should switch to?
> (e.g. mtxrun or something)
context filename
context is a stub present in texmf-context/scripts/context/stub/unix and
says
#!/bin/sh
mtxrun --script context "$@"
Aditya
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-22 22:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-22 4:08 David
2008-04-22 7:15 ` Mojca Miklavec
2008-04-22 20:16 ` David
2008-04-22 21:13 ` Mojca Miklavec
2008-04-22 22:53 ` Aditya Mahajan [this message]
2008-04-23 5:22 ` David
2008-04-23 7:18 ` Diego Depaoli
2008-04-23 10:51 ` Mojca Miklavec
2008-04-23 10:53 ` Mojca Miklavec
2008-04-23 11:34 ` Yue Wang
2008-04-24 8:00 ` Mojca Miklavec
2008-04-23 14:00 ` Jan-Erik Hägglöf
2008-04-23 14:47 ` Arthur Reutenauer
2008-04-23 14:59 ` Taco Hoekwater
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