From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/20158 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Skip Collins Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: install help Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 12:13:58 -0400 Message-ID: Reply-To: skip@interbit.com, 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 1114848660 14217 80.91.229.2 (30 Apr 2005 08:11:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2005 08:11:00 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sat Apr 30 10:10:54 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 1DRn3t-0007N2-LJ for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Apr 2005 10:10:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A958127E1; Sat, 30 Apr 2005 10:16:44 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 06492-05; Sat, 30 Apr 2005 10:16:40 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7098127B6; Sat, 30 Apr 2005 10:16:39 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C7C3127D2 for ; Fri, 29 Apr 2005 18:14:00 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 00627-05 for ; Fri, 29 Apr 2005 18:13:59 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.194]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BD0D127C1 for ; Fri, 29 Apr 2005 18:13:59 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 9so1673404nzo for ; Fri, 29 Apr 2005 09:13:58 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=P32g245Nho/j9uu9tIPnsPJeyMGilpIb/eUaMVpp9TPiKaBI4JlM+0nGXWoDboMoy/XLIZGIPLI4yarhbMuNHSM0+hGuiSFLxSPky7xr+uLc2VSK1ezAPdEfenZoq4NlQmGzXwMaHw/qfQwTIcn1RNIih01/QIsq5BfyoLRp/0A= Original-Received: by 10.36.34.12 with SMTP id h12mr212063nzh; Fri, 29 Apr 2005 09:13:58 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.36.100.10 with HTTP; Fri, 29 Apr 2005 09:13:58 -0700 (PDT) Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Content-Disposition: inline X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 30 Apr 2005 10:16:38 +0200 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-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:20158 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:20158 I am a tex/latex veteran user who would like to start using context to test the waters on some small projects. I have a lightly enhanced texlive 2004 full installation on my fedora linux box. So I already have a version of context installed. But since I noticed some problems with mathml output, I thought it might be a good idea to get the latest and greatest from pragma. This is where things got confusing. Are there simple instructions somewhere for upgrading context for texlive in a minimally invasive way? The installation guide at http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/minstall.pdf does not seem to capture all the necessary steps for getting things working right with new versions. The sparse instructions at http://contextgarden.net/Linux_Installation leave me with a non-functioning context and a corrupted /usr/TeX/texmf tree. Am I missing something? I downloaded cont-tmf.zip (which should I choose? current? beta? alpha?) and installed it in ~/texmf. But I ran into problems with latin modern font names (ec vs. cork). So I installed the latest lm font distribution in ~/texmf (lots of manual labor). Then I found that texexec could not find my formats and kept trying to rebuild cont-en.fmt (using 2005-04-28 alpha). When I run texexec as root, this problem does not occur(!?). Checking the mailing lists, it looks like I need to patch texexec. What is the right way to do this? Currently, I am invoking scripts installed in the texlive bin directory. I have not replaced them with the updated versions in the alpha distribution. Do I need to do something like texmfstart --make and manually move each and every script? Sorry for rambling. I guess this goes with the territory when living on the bleeding edge. As you can see, I am in need of some basic guidance for getting a newish context working properly. I have spent some time looking for step-by-step instructions, but all I get is more confused. The contextgarden wiki could be updated with more complete instructions. I would be happy to help with this if I could only figure out the correct recipe.