Re: [NTG-context] i-Installer / minimal TeX installation for ConTeXt?
Gerben Wierda wrote: On Jan 10, 2006, at 21:22, Idris Samawi Hamid wrote: By and by I've found that I am only using ConTeXt for my typesetting needs. I am curious as to whether someone can advise me how best to install a suitable yet minimal TeX installation: without LaTeX, etc. I am currently using Gerben's very helpful i-Installer. If someone can tell me which part of my redistro should stay, I can easily rearrange matters such that such a minimal install is possible. since the minimals have many fonts, they are not that small; they use the [10pt] subsets of cbgreek and cmsuper [karl bery and i hav ebeen playing with subsets and if i'm right tex live now also ships with subsets] which saves many megs; the minimals also don't have latex and other macro packages (only plain tex as this is used in mptopdf); this may safe quite some megs (as well as speeds up file searching) because latex ships with sourcetrees as well also, nothing metafont is included plus a subset of binaries, think of: afm2pl afm2tfm aleph dvips dvitodvi dvitomp dvipdfmx kpseaccess kpsestat kpsewhich mktexlsr mpost mpto pdfetex pltotf texmfstart tftopl ttf2afm ttf2tfm vftovp vptovf (+ xetex) (+ some tool stubs) it's still on taco/mine's agenda to set up a gforce minimal repos at fabrice's server for packagers Hans ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
Re: [NTG-context] i-Installer / minimal TeX installation for ConTeXt?
On Mon, 09 Jan 2006 12:23:17 -0700, David Wooten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings all, By and by I've found that I am only using ConTeXt for my typesetting needs. I am curious as to whether someone can advise me how best to install a suitable yet minimal TeX installation: without LaTeX, etc. I am currently using Gerben's very helpful i-Installer. Perhaps it would vary too much between users to say definitively? Such a distro exists for windows. Someone would have to take responsibility for a Mac setup, and I suppose that's one reason why Hans has not (yet) a similar package for Mac (or Linix) Best -- 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 ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
Re: [NTG-context] i-Installer / minimal TeX installation for ConTeXt?
On Jan 10, 2006, at 21:22, Idris Samawi Hamid wrote: By and by I've found that I am only using ConTeXt for my typesetting needs. I am curious as to whether someone can advise me how best to install a suitable yet minimal TeX installation: without LaTeX, etc. I am currently using Gerben's very helpful i-Installer. If someone can tell me which part of my redistro should stay, I can easily rearrange matters such that such a minimal install is possible. G ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
Re: [NTG-context] i-Installer / minimal TeX installation for ConTeXt?
On Tue, 10 Jan 2006 17:00:19 -0700, Gerben Wierda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 10, 2006, at 21:22, Idris Samawi Hamid wrote: By and by I've found that I am only using ConTeXt for my typesetting needs. I am curious as to whether someone can advise me how best to install a suitable yet minimal TeX installation: without LaTeX, etc. I am currently using Gerben's very helpful i-Installer. If someone can tell me which part of my redistro should stay, I can easily rearrange matters such that such a minimal install is possible. In addition to Hans' comments, I would suggest just taking the independent windows package http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/install/mswincontext.zip and replacing the windows-specific stuff (e.g. batch files and executables) with osx stuff. That should do it! 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 ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
[NTG-context] i-Installer / minimal TeX installation for ConTeXt?
Greetings all, By and by I've found that I am only using ConTeXt for my typesetting needs. I am curious as to whether someone can advise me how best to install a suitable yet minimal TeX installation: without LaTeX, etc. I am currently using Gerben's very helpful i-Installer. Perhaps it would vary too much between users to say definitively? In any case, Thanks very much David ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
