Thanks, Otared! That is very helpful indeed. I now have access to each of the ConTeXt trees via TeXShop—and a sensible way to explore why the ConTeXt betas since August 5 have not worked so well with my files.
All best, Alan On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 1:54 PM, Otared Kavian <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Alan, > > Using TeXShop on MacOS X you can create two files named « > mkiv-stable.engine » and « mkiv-testing.engine » and put them in the folder > > Library/TeXShop/Engines > > The first file « mkiv-stable.engine » contains the following: > #!/bin/bash > > source [path-to-your-context-minimal-stable-folder]/tex/setuptex > context --autogenerate --synctex=1 "$1" > > and the second file « mkiv-testing.engine » contains > #!/bin/bash > > source [path-to-your-context-minimal-testing-folder]/tex/setuptex > context --autogenerate --synctex=1 "$1" > > (personnaly I add also > rm -f *.tui *.log *.tuo *.xdv *.mp *.tmp *.top *-mpgraph.* > *-mpgraph-temp.dvi *.tuc > at the end of each of the files to remove auxiliary files, but you must be > careful with removing such files as *.mp…). > > Then when you open anew TeXShop, you'll see in a small menu on top of each > of your TeX file where you can choose to typeset your file with either > mkiv-stable or mkiv-testing. > Or you can add at the top of your TeX file the following line: > %!TEX TS-program = mkiv-stable > or > %!TEX TS-program = mkiv-testing > > In case you would like to use mkii you should replace the line > context --autogenerate --synctex=1 "$1" > with > texexec --autogenerate --synctex=1 "$1" > and create an engine file named « mkii.engine » > That's it. > I hope this would be useful to you. > Best regards: OK > > On 31 août 2013, at 14:12, Alan Bowen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I would like to install two ConTeXt trees on my laptop, one for work in > progress and another for testing, and to run them using TeXShop (if that is > feasible). > > > > Are there any instructions for this? I have searched the wiki and > TeXShop help files but have not seen anything that indicates how to do this. > > > > I currently have a system-wide installation of the ConTeXt standalone. > > > > Alan > > > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > > If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry > to the Wiki! > > > > maillist : [email protected] / > http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context > > webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net > > archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ > > wiki : http://contextgarden.net > > > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > > > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to > the Wiki! > > maillist : [email protected] / > http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context > webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net > archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ > wiki : http://contextgarden.net > > ___________________________________________________________________________________ >
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