Re: Installing ConTeXt Minimals on a Mac

[Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>]

On Mon, 1 Sep 2008, Alan Bowen wrote:

> Mocja---I will start with the second proposal and save the first for 
> tomorrow.
>
> On Sep 1, 2008, at 17;38,50 , Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 10:43 PM, Alan Bowen <acbowen@princeton.edu> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Sep 1, 2008, at 13;43,19 , Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>>> 
>>>>> On Sep 1, 2008, at 12;24,41 , Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> For setting HOMETEXMF you can help yourself, though it would be nice
>>>>> if we provided a solution that worked out of the box. But I would
>>>>> like
>>>>> to get a confirmation from Hans that it's OK to do that.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I have modified the texmf.cnf in
>>>>> ./Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf/web2c with the lines
>>>>> export HOMETEXMF=~/Library/texmf
>>>>> export
>>>>> TEXMF='{$TEXMFHOME,$TEXMFLOCAL,!!$TEXMFOS,!!$TEXMFCONTEXT,!!
>>>>> $TEXMFEXTRA,!!$TEXMFMAIN}'
>>>>> but ConTeXt still does not find my personal texmf folder
>>>> 
>>>> I probably told you wrong, but:
>>>> 1.) you have HOMETEXMF first and then TEXMFHOME: these need to be
>>>> equal
>>>> 2.) unless you are following (3), don't modify the file in texmf/,
>>>> but create
>>>> /Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-local/web2c/texmf.cnf
>>>> instead, else the file will be overwritten at first update
>>>> 3.) even then I'm not completely sure, but I guess that environmental
>>>> variables override settings in texmf.cnf, so you either need to
>>>> a) modify setuptex (rename it and run the renamed file instead of
>>>> setuptex)
>>>> b) only export PATH and not run setuptex at all; in that case values
>>>> from texmf.cnf will be used
>>>> - maybe you need to run "mktexlsr" or "luatools --generate"
>>>>> 
>>> 
>>> OK. One quick reply just to see if I am on track.
>>> 
>>> I have created /Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-local/web2c/
>>> texmf.cnf
>>> where texmf.cnf now has
>>> export HOMETEXMF=~/Library/texmf
>>> export TEXMF='{$HOMETEXMF,$TEXMFLOCAL,!!$TEXMFOS,!!$TEXMFCONTEXT,!!
>> 
>> (hopefully the line continues ...)
>> 
>> The lines you have written here belong to "setuptex", not to
>> texmf.cnf. The syntax for setuptex is slightly different.
>> 
>> HOMETEXMF     = ~/Library/texmf
>> # single line
>> TEXMF = 
>> {$HOMETEXMF,!!$TEXMFPROJECT,!!$TEXMFFONTS,!!$TEXMFLOCAL,!!$TEXMFCONTEXT,!!$TEXMFEXTRA,!!$TEXMFMAIN}
>> 
>> But try putting
>>  export HOMETEXMF=~/Library/texmf
>> # single line
>>  export 
>> TEXMF='{$HOMETEXMF,$TEXMFLOCAL,!!$TEXMFOS,!!$TEXMFCONTEXT,!!$TEXMFEXTRA,!!$TEXMFMAIN}'
>> 
>> into setuptex (replace the old variables). The problem is that if you
>> adapt texmf.cnf only, you still override those settings with setuptex.
>> 
>> There is one thing that you could try (I never use TeXShop, but
>> there's a change that it works):
>> 
>> 
>> ~/Library/TeXShop/Engines/ConTeXt-pdfTeX.engine
>> 
>> #!/bin/bash
>> export PATH=/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-osx-intel:$PATH
>> texexec "$1"

Shouldn't that be

export PATH=/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-osx-intel/bin:$PATH

(Note the /bin at the end of the path, and same for all commands below).

Aditya
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