Re: [NTG-context] The windows minimal exe installer

2008-09-09 Thread Yue Wang
Isn't that available already? (No windows to test.) if I choose --engine=luatex, most binaries and scripts will still be downloaded ( including mpost, kpse*, dvips/dvipdfmx and knuth's font tools) [not windows specific] because they are stated in mtx-update. while in fact only luatex, context,

Re: [NTG-context] The windows minimal exe installer

2008-09-08 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Mon, 8 Sep 2008, Yue Wang wrote: That's already working (should be at least). I mean the GUI installer. Windows users seldom do command line job:) btw, I mailed a bug report to [EMAIL PROTECTED] one week ago, but it seems that no one received it:( When I use minimals in Linux, in MKII,

Re: [NTG-context] The windows minimal exe installer

2008-09-08 Thread Yue Wang
OK, I update the minimals and get the following: sent 348 bytes received 101193 bytes 15621.69 bytes/sec total size is 73454574 speedup is 723.40 mtx update | running command: rsync -rpztlv --stats contextgarden.net::'minimals/current/bin/common/linux/ minimals/current/bin/context/linux/

Re: [NTG-context] The windows minimal exe installer

2008-09-08 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Yue Wang wrote: no mp related binaries except mpost. That is probably the new MPlib based metapost that no longer needs the external helper programs. The metapost version should be higher than 1.005 if this is the case. Best wishes, Taco

Re: [NTG-context] The windows minimal exe installer

2008-09-08 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi, btw, I mailed a bug report to [EMAIL PROTECTED] one week ago, but it seems that no one received it:( This is true, at that time there was almost nobody from the distribution team on the list. http://lists.launchpad.net/context/msg0.html My reply didn't reach you since you were also

Re: [NTG-context] The windows minimal exe installer

2008-09-08 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Yue Wang wrote: This is MetaPost, version 1.091 (kpathsea version 3.5.7) (./a-mpgraph.mp a-mpgraph.mp a-mpgraph.mpx ! Unable to make mpx file. The question is: how much of mpware is needed by texexec --mptex. I assume that just dvitomp is enough, but I am not sure? Best wishes, Taco

Re: [NTG-context] The windows minimal exe installer

2008-09-08 Thread Hans Hagen
Taco Hoekwater wrote: Yue Wang wrote: This is MetaPost, version 1.091 (kpathsea version 3.5.7) (./a-mpgraph.mp a-mpgraph.mp a-mpgraph.mpx ! Unable to make mpx file. The question is: how much of mpware is needed by texexec --mptex. I assume that just dvitomp is enough, but I am not

Re: [NTG-context] The windows minimal exe installer

2008-09-08 Thread Yue Wang
Hi, Taco: That is probably the new MPlib based metapost that no longer needs the external helper programs. The metapost version should be higher than 1.005 if this is the case. I know that in your tug presentation. However: systems : system commands are enabled systems :

[NTG-context] The windows minimal exe installer

2008-09-07 Thread Yue Wang
Hi, For automatic environment setup, I think there are two values should be changed for better directory support: TEXMFCNF -- ...\texmf\web2c (why did it find texmf-local/context on my machine ?) TEXMF --- {...} // add values like texmf-fonts, texmf-project, texmf-extra, etc. defined in

Re: [NTG-context] The windows minimal exe installer

2008-09-07 Thread Yue Wang
btw, I think Windows users are not command line experts. I think the minimal installer can add more options. for example, which distribution to choose (MKIV or XeTeX or pdfTeX), which fonts to be download (TeXGyre, Kurier, Iwona...) according to the distribution (in MKIV and XeTeX, download otf,

Re: [NTG-context] The windows minimal exe installer

2008-09-07 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 6:33 AM, Yue Wang wrote: btw, I think Windows users are not command line experts. I think the minimal installer can add more options. for example, which distribution to choose (MKIV or XeTeX or pdfTeX), Isn't that available already? (No windows to test.) which fonts to

Re: [NTG-context] The windows minimal exe installer

2008-09-07 Thread Yue Wang
That's already working (should be at least). I mean the GUI installer. Windows users seldom do command line job:) btw, I mailed a bug report to [EMAIL PROTECTED] one week ago, but it seems that no one received it:( When I use minimals in Linux, in MKII, anything that have something to do with