The fact IMHO is that there's a potentially large base of ConTeXt
users which are willing to learn the syntax but are scared about
terminals, setting paths etc
(well, me too: knowing substantially nothing of unix I'm never
comfortable with unix aspects of my system)
So, an installer is really welcome.
Best
-a-
On 11 Jun 2008, at 22:43, Jesse Alama wrote:
I second Andrea's opinion -- I'm also looking forward to a
straightforward way of updating ConTeXt and kin. I'm comfortable with
ctxtools --updatecontext,
but much less comfortable updating binaries and fonts, based on my
experience screwing up my installation; a nice Mac OS X interface to
deal with all these would be great. How about allowing
installation of
modules from http://modules.contextgarden.net, too?
(I admit that there's probably a good deal of FUD here on my part and
it's not as complicated as I think it is. My guess, though, is
that I'm
not alone.)
Jesse
Andrea Valle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Wow, much needed.
Looking forward to see it.
Best
-a-
On 11 Jun 2008, at 18:05, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 4:55 PM, Andrea Valle wrote:
Hi Oliver,
I've already assembled a working ConTeXt package based on
the minimals
that installs via the Apple installer. In other words, it
will provide
the same seamless installation experience to the user as
known from
the MacTeX package and, in fact, as known from any decent Mac
software.
Fantastic. Exactly what I need. But will you include TeXShop?
You can use the existing TeXShop or any other editor. Besides
that, in
summer or autumn a new cross-platform editor by Jonathan Kew
will be
available.
Will the tex
file system be local (i.e. separated from the usual
locations) ?
You will be able to use PreferencePane to select whether you
want to
use MacTeX or ConTeXt minimals (and which version), and that
will be
done globally. /usr/texbin will be a symlink to binaries.
Mojca
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