Re: [NTG-context] texlive vs. Context minimal on Windows

2013-09-03 Thread john Culleton
On Sat, 31 Aug 2013 12:12:28 -0400 john Culleton j...@wexfordpress.com wrote: On Sat, 31 Aug 2013 11:40:57 -0400 john Culleton j...@wexfordpress.com wrote: Just found a zip file which may contain the full context distro for windows. Stay tuned for success/failure notice. Failure.

Re: [NTG-context] texlive vs. Context minimal on Windows

2013-09-03 Thread john Culleton
On Sat, 31 Aug 2013 23:44:30 +0200 Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote: On 8/31/2013 5:40 PM, john Culleton wrote: If there were a way to download minimals or the full context suite for windows as an iso image I would be home free. But fate is not so kind to me. installing the garden via

Re: [NTG-context] texlive vs. Context minimal on Windows

2013-09-03 Thread Hans Hagen
On 9/1/2013 6:56 PM, john Culleton wrote: On Sat, 31 Aug 2013 23:44:30 +0200 Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote: On 8/31/2013 5:40 PM, john Culleton wrote: If there were a way to download minimals or the full context suite for windows as an iso image I would be home free. But fate is not so kind

[NTG-context] texlive vs. Context minimal on Windows

2013-08-31 Thread john Culleton
I know that Context Minimals is more up to date than texlive, which is updated yearly. But texlive when installed on Windows adds a menu under programs that is very handy for beginners. I don't have an internet conection for my windows partition. (Some nonsense about a driver for my ethernet

Re: [NTG-context] texlive vs. Context minimal on Windows

2013-08-31 Thread Mari Voipio
On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 3:43 PM, john Culleton j...@wexfordpress.com wrote: when a user downloads Context Minimals on a Windows partition what must they do to run the programs such as context and mtxrun? Go to a text console? In Windows it is called Command Prompt, but yes. Unless you also

Re: [NTG-context] texlive vs. Context minimal on Windows

2013-08-31 Thread john Culleton
On Sat, 31 Aug 2013 16:26:48 +0300 Mari Voipio mari.voi...@iki.fi wrote: On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 3:43 PM, john Culleton j...@wexfordpress.com wrote: when a user downloads Context Minimals on a Windows partition what must they do to run the programs such as context and mtxrun? Go to a text

Re: [NTG-context] texlive vs. Context minimal on Windows

2013-08-31 Thread john Culleton
On Sat, 31 Aug 2013 11:40:57 -0400 john Culleton j...@wexfordpress.com wrote: Just found a zip file which may contain the full context distro for windows. Stay tuned for success/failure notice. -- John Culleton Wexford Press Free list of books for self-publishers:

Re: [NTG-context] texlive vs. Context minimal on Windows

2013-08-31 Thread Mari Voipio
Hello! On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 6:40 PM, john Culleton j...@wexfordpress.com wrote: Just fyi TeXlive when installed on Windows also loads a program submenu, and one of the entries there is texworks. So I can pretty much insulate my users from dreaded (by some) command line. That was the reason

Re: [NTG-context] texlive vs. Context minimal on Windows

2013-08-31 Thread Hans Hagen
On 8/31/2013 5:40 PM, john Culleton wrote: If there were a way to download minimals or the full context suite for windows as an iso image I would be home free. But fate is not so kind to me. installing the garden via rsync (one can even be more monimal with an initial --engine=luatex install

Re: [NTG-context] texlive vs. Context minimal on Windows

2013-08-31 Thread Hans Hagen
On 8/31/2013 6:15 PM, Mari Voipio wrote: TeXworks may not be the world's most advanced editor, but good enough with highlighting and it allows doing everything by clicking as opposed to using the unfamiliar command line interface. And frankly, TeXWorks looks more like Windows than SciTe, so it