I gave it a try and it works quite nice. Since I am currently using
Context/MKII (Installed via the TexLive 2008 distribution) for my
documents, your solution would provide even me with a fairly simple
method to use the current minimals installation and to try out MKIV.
Even switching between "Context-2009-06-11-beta", "gwTeX" and
"TeXLive-2008" by using the TeX Distribution system preference panel
works.
A Testdocument works with "TeXLive-2008" (texexec
produktvorschlag.tex) as well as with your installation
"Context-2009-06-11-beta" (context produktvorschlag.tex)
:-)
Would it be possible to install (optionally perhaps) third party
modules like t-letter and t-simplefonts also?
Yeah, that should be doable. The Apple installer definitely supports
packages with several (optional) components. And I think it's a very
nice thing to have right out of the box. I'll put it on the roadmap.
In the meantime you may install any third party material manually (see
below).
Or can I install these third party modules by myself in your
"Context-2009-06-11-beta" tree (downloading first-setup.sh in your
folder "/usr/local/context/2009-06-11-beta" failed for me, perhaps
due to missing rights?)?
Well, you can. If you want these modules to be available to all local
users of your Mac place the entire directory hierarchy of each module
in the tree /usr/local/context/2009-06-11-beta/texmf-local. You'll
need admin access though since /usr/local/context is a protected
system directory.
If you want the modules to be available only to yourself put their
files in ~/Library/texmf (where ~ denotes your home directory). For
this you don't need admin rights. Be warned though that the ~/Library/
texmf tree is shared with TeXLive. Hence anything you put there
supersedes older versions of the same stuff contained in TeXLive and
this might cause some funny interferences when you run an old ConTeXt
from the TeXLive distribution ...
In both cases you need to issue
luatools --generate
before ConTeXt recognizes the new additions. If you installed the
modules in the system location you need to repeat this step for each
local user.
Note that this package is still experimental so ~/Library/texmf (as
well as most other things) might be subject to change.
Oliver
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