Hi all,
I do a lot of LaTeX writing as my stuff is very math intensive, but
I have a lot of interest in ConTeXt as I would like my books to look better.
Anyway, I try on and off to get ConTeXt running so I can experiment.
I just spent a pleasurable day playing. Here is what I found.
It was pretty easy to install the newest minimals. I just followed the
instructions and installed it in a local place separate from my texlive2009
installation.
I spent a lot of time with a direct update of ConTeXt into my
texlive2009 folder (yes, I know I was doomed but I was on a roll).
I found the usual errors running either
luatools --generate
or
mtxrun --generate
and also
context --make
All the files needed to make this work are actually installed, but
the problem is the way luatools finds stuff and caches it.
Something is wrong there. The files that are in the folder can't
be located.
Also, with my local minimals installed and trying to add ConTeXt to my
texlive2009, luatools seemed to find the ConTeXt stuff from both
minimals and texlive2009. That was not good, but temporarily removing
the minimals did not change the bad results, still I have no idea how
to get luatools to ignore the minimals folder when it is setting up the cache.
Finally, this all started because I am tired of my bad chemical drawings in my
books and wanted to use the package m-ch-en in LaTeX. The original
context supplied with texlive2009 wouldn't let me compile a m-ch-en source
so since I am still heavily using LaTeX, I wanted to update luatex, context
etc to see if I could get it to work.
I still can't use context from texlive2009, but with my updates I can
compile m-ch-en source. So at least a small win.
The ConTeXt stuff is fascinating and I am moving towards it, but I need
to do it in baby steps and I need to do it with a concomittant LaTeX
installation. So I will eagerly await any sort of a fix for a LaTeX/ConTeXt
combined world while I continue to learn and move away for LaTeX.
As a long time user of LaTeX, I know its limitations very well and ConTeXt
will allow me to do more interesting things.
Keep up the good work. I read the digest every day and look around the wiki
too.
Thanks!
Jim Peterson
___
If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the
Wiki!
maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net
archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/
wiki : http://contextgarden.net
___
