On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 01:28:49AM +0100, frantisek holop wrote:
> hmm, on Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 02:37:30PM +0100, Joachim Schipper said that
> > Did you look at texlive_base? It should be a rather solid base for your
> > work.
> > In fact, it might suffice to install texlive_base, untar the ConTeXt
> > files in /usr/local/share/texmf-local, and (re-)build the ls-R files.
> > (Of course, this is not the way to go with a port - texmf-local should
> > probably be reserved for the user - but could work well if you just want
> > to use ConTeXt on a machine with restricted disk space.)
>
> base does not include any fonts.
> context minimal = base - unused engines/binaries + fonts infrastructure.
>
> context minimal clocks about 170M -- uncompressed at the moment,
> so i think the package could be well under 100M with everything,
> and even smaller with the option of not installing xetex and luatex.
Yes, I know base doesn't include any fonts. Where is the problem? Fonts
in traditional format are part of the texmf tree, and while I'm not sure
XeTeX doesn't use fonts from elsewhere, this should still be doable, no?
Joachim
