Hi Thomas, On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 09:57:26 -0700, Thomas A. Schmitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Feb 22, 2007, at 5:40 PM, Idris Samawi Hamid wrote: > >>> after some testing taco and i found out that tl has recent map >>> files but >>> that there's a problem with rsync and time outs on large trees, >>> which is >>> why my local texlive copy is incomplete; so, it mostly depends on >>> what >>> snapshot one uses >> >> This is exactly why I stick with mswincontext.zip, to avoid >> headaches like >> this ;-) > I sympathize, but I think you're a bit unfair here. If I understand > Hans's mail right, he was not installing from the image, but rsyncing > his trees with TeXLive, and that's where the error was. I've been > running the development version for at least three months now (even > when it still was called 2006...) and haven't had any troubles, > especially wrt to fonts and packages. Point taken, although for the record I finally abandoned TeXLive a couple of years ago or so because of headaches with getting ever-newer versions of ConTeXt working right, then there was aleph and... > On a linux or OS X box, I would > even recommend installing it alongside the minimal and switch between > them to test things, but I have no idea if/how this is possible on > winblows. Well, there's setuptex.bat which allows this and I do have a XemTeX tree from Fabrice. Maybe I'll update XemTeX and see what happens. Best Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ _______________________________________________ ntg-context mailing list [email protected] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
