Hi Taco, Actually context, luatex, lualatex and latex are all installed by TL2018 but the only one NOT working is context. This discourages many people to experiment with context before installing a standalone version.
Best regards: OK > On 6 Jun 2018, at 17:19, Taco Hoekwater <t...@elvenkind.com> wrote: > > Hi Otared, > > Since it works for me just fine (TL2018), a wild guess is that the installed > TeXLive did not > install the context scheme at all? > > Best wishes, > Taxo > >> On 6 Jun 2018, at 16:54, Otared Kavian <ota...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> I would like to report (with a rather bad humor) on an issue regarding the >> use of ConTeXt when one starts with TeXLive. >> >> Last week I was at a meeting of mathematicians and several people asked me >> to explain why I am using ConTeXt rather than LaTeX, and show them some of >> the features which (according to me) are fundamentally better thought and >> better designed. >> >> When some of my colleagues were convinced with what I showed them, since >> they had already a version of TeXLive installed on their computer, they >> wanted to try out ConTeXt on their own. So we tried to make some tests with >> their own installation of TeXLive and ConTeXt on their machine, and this is >> when the troubles began, because none of them could run ConTeXt out of the >> box… >> >> I confess that I am not at all a geek and my knowledge of ConTeXt is rather >> elementary, and just sufficient for my own (elementary) needs, therefore I >> could not solve the problems preventing those people to use ConTeXt. >> However, as those people told me, when using LaTeX they don't need any >> further technical knowledge, since any file can be typeset out of the box >> with an installation of TeXLive. >> >> So here is my frustrated question: why we cannot typeset a file « test.tex » >> written in TeX and using ConTeXt commands just by saying >> context test.tex >> in a terminal window (nor using a GUI front end) while one would be able to >> do that if that file were written using LaTeX commands? >> >> I know that it is possible to search on the web and find an answer regarding >> the steps one should take to enable ConTeXt from TeXLive, but it is not >> natural to expect people come to ConTeXt if they cannot use it out of the >> box. By the way, just for testing I installed TeXLive 2018, and could not >> use ConTeXt out of the box… (and I don't remember what I should do to enable >> it…). >> >> Indeed it is always possible to install a standalone version of ConTeXt on >> one's machine, but this pushes us to behave like a sect in the TeX >> community. >> >> I don't know to whom I should write to have ConTeXt enabled in TeXLive when >> one installs it: can anyone give me a hint? >> >> Best regards to all of you, especially those who do an incredible lot of >> work to develop ConTeXt and, who deserve to be better known among TeX users. >> Otared K. >> ___________________________________________________________________________________ >> If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to >> the Wiki! >> >> maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / >> http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context >> webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://context.aanhet.net >> archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ >> wiki : http://contextgarden.net >> ___________________________________________________________________________________ > > Taco Hoekwater > Elvenkind BV > > > > > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the > Wiki! > > maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context > webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://context.aanhet.net > archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ > wiki : http://contextgarden.net > ___________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
