From: Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Running Mk-IV using TeXLive 2010
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2010 15:06:26 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.01.1010051503150.7795@ybpnyubfg.ybpnyqbznva> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CAB71A3.9060204@maynard.com>
Does mtxrun --selfupdate help?
On Tue, 5 Oct 2010, Tom Maynard wrote:
> On 10/5/2010 1:07 PM, Florian Wobbe wrote:
>> This is the result of the broken TeXLive 2010 installation. It should have
>> worked out of the box before your failed update attempt. Try again with a
>> clean TeXLive 2010 or install minimals.
>>
> This is the second trap I fell into by following the instructions in the
> manuals: all that rsync stuff jazzed up my TeXLive 2010 installation and I
> had to reinstall. This bad advice is found on the "Running Mark IV" page on
> the wiki. Of course, I wanted to run MkIV and ended up spending another hour
> reinstalling TeXLive to get it back.
The last time I tried, context runs sucessfully out of the box in TL. You
only need to do the rsync stuff if you want the latest beta.
> On my desktop machine I have both TeXLive (for Cygwin) and ConTeXt minimals
> (for Windows) installed, my notebook has only TeXLive. I am no longer
> tempted to update any of these, even if I prefer to stay current.
You should not have any troubles updating the minimals. You can consider
installing minimals on your notebook also (the install size is around
200MB).
> As a newbie, I wanted to try out the Concrete Roman font ... but abandoned
> that quest when it looked like I was going to have to tinker with the
> internals again. I am now staying firmly on the "end user" side of the
> ConTeXt fence.
Using the font should be as easy as
\usemodule[simplefonts]
\setupmainfont[Concrete Roman]
Aditya
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Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-05 17:03 R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
2010-10-05 17:32 ` David Rogers
2010-10-05 17:51 ` Tom Maynard
2010-10-05 17:54 ` R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
2010-10-05 18:07 ` Florian Wobbe
2010-10-05 18:42 ` Tom Maynard
2010-10-05 19:06 ` Aditya Mahajan [this message]
2010-10-05 19:20 ` Tom Maynard
2010-10-05 19:30 ` luigi scarso
2010-10-05 20:39 ` Tom Maynard
2010-10-06 2:07 ` R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
2010-10-06 10:03 ` Mojca Miklavec
2010-10-06 17:19 ` R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
2010-10-06 18:09 ` Mojca Miklavec
2010-10-06 18:46 ` Running Mk-IV using TeXnicCenter Tom Maynard
2010-10-06 18:51 ` Hans Hagen
2010-10-06 19:30 ` Mojca Miklavec
2010-10-06 19:46 ` luigi scarso
2010-10-06 18:48 ` Running Mk-IV using TeXLive 2010 Hans Hagen
2010-10-06 19:24 ` R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
2010-10-05 17:45 ` Florian Wobbe
2010-10-06 2:02 ` R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
2010-10-06 7:32 ` Florian Wobbe
2010-10-06 7:45 ` Hans Hagen
2010-10-06 7:43 ` Hans Hagen
2010-10-06 10:07 ` Mojca Miklavec
2010-10-05 19:03 ` Mojca Miklavec
2010-10-06 2:26 ` R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
2010-10-05 19:13 ` Hans Hagen
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