From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/33480 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Idris Samawi Hamid" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: tex live and context Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 10:22:33 -0700 Organization: Colorado State University Message-ID: References: <5FBF59B9-3D1A-4AE4-8F3A-EF019602FB59@uni-bonn.de> <4CB783E5-4708-4B1B-9D12-FFD738C53DFC@uni-bonn.de> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1172165092 28064 80.91.229.12 (22 Feb 2007 17:24:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 17:24:52 +0000 (UTC) To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Feb 22 18:24:45 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HKHgR-0001wm-DI for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 22 Feb 2007 18:24:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCBF02043B; Thu, 22 Feb 2007 18:21:49 +0100 (CET) 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 25264-06-2; Thu, 22 Feb 2007 18:21:42 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85F5820427; Thu, 22 Feb 2007 18:21:42 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6012B20434 for ; Thu, 22 Feb 2007 18:21:40 +0100 (CET) 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 25264-06 for ; Thu, 22 Feb 2007 18:21:35 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from parker.ACNS.ColoState.EDU (parker.acns.colostate.edu [129.82.100.125]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B4A6203D6 for ; Thu, 22 Feb 2007 18:20:57 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from lamar.ColoState.EDU (lamar.acns.colostate.edu [129.82.100.75]) by parker.ACNS.ColoState.EDU (AIX5.3/8.11.6p2/8.11.0) with ESMTP id l1MHMY67901458 for ; Thu, 22 Feb 2007 10:22:37 -0700 Original-Received: from ihamid.libarts.colostate.edu (ihamid [129.82.187.69] (may be forged)) by lamar.ColoState.EDU (AIX5.2/8.11.6p2/8.11.0) with ESMTP id l1MHMYl11776050 for ; Thu, 22 Feb 2007 10:22:34 -0700 In-Reply-To: <4CB783E5-4708-4B1B-9D12-FFD738C53DFC@uni-bonn.de> User-Agent: Opera Mail/9.01 (Win32) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 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: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:33480 Archived-At: Hi Thomas, On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 09:57:26 -0700, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: > On Feb 22, 2007, at 5:40 PM, Idris Samawi Hamid wrote: > >>> after some testing taco and i found out that tl has recent map >>> files but >>> that there's a problem with rsync and time outs on large trees, >>> which is >>> why my local texlive copy is incomplete; so, it mostly depends on >>> what >>> snapshot one uses >> >> This is exactly why I stick with mswincontext.zip, to avoid >> headaches like >> this ;-) > I sympathize, but I think you're a bit unfair here. If I understand > Hans's mail right, he was not installing from the image, but rsyncing > his trees with TeXLive, and that's where the error was. I've been > running the development version for at least three months now (even > when it still was called 2006...) and haven't had any troubles, > especially wrt to fonts and packages. Point taken, although for the record I finally abandoned TeXLive a couple of years ago or so because of headaches with getting ever-newer versions of ConTeXt working right, then there was aleph and... > On a linux or OS X box, I would > even recommend installing it alongside the minimal and switch between > them to test things, but I have no idea if/how this is possible on > winblows. Well, there's setuptex.bat which allows this and I do have a XemTeX tree from Fabrice. Maybe I'll update XemTeX and see what happens. Best Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/