On 10/1/06, Mojca Miklavec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 9/29/06, Taco Hoekwater wrote: > > Steve Peter wrote: > > > There is now a MikTeX package manager for Linux. > > > > And it is best not to use it since it ships a context that > > believes it is running on windows...
ConTeXt should adjust to the differences (see ruby/tex.rb), but someone may need to search out the bugs and report them. > But then it has to be fixed, not thrown away ... I bet that the main > reason is one of the many "if (MikTeX)" switches in the source code > assuming that MikTeX is running on windows. Are there any MikTeX/Lunux > users around? (I work on windows 99% of time, but if I manage to > install MikTeX on the linux partition, I'll give it a try.) > > The other thing is: I have no idea how the executables are created. I > sent quite a few requests, so that now finally the ruby scripts are > used instead of the old perl-based ones. But I don't have the > slightest idea how they work under Linux. I have ConTeXt under MikTeX and also on Fedora Core 5 both using the Aug. 8 release from a separate texmf-cont tree, so I didn't install the MikTeX version at all (I did steal texmfstart.exe from W32tex). There were some problems in the MikTeX-2.5 betas due to different command-line switches in linux (and W32TeX) versions of pdftex, but I thought that had been fixed in the final version. There are some system specific flags set in base/tex.rb to deal with any lingering differences, so if there are problems I'd compare the options for pdftex and see if they are reflected in tex.rb. -- George N. White III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia _______________________________________________ ntg-context mailing list [email protected] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
