> On 16 Jul 2015, at 16:44, Marcel Schneider <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On 16 Jul 2015, at 13:21, Hans Aberg <[email protected]> wrote:

> Knowing nothing about, I mixed up ConTeXt you referred to, and ConTEXT, and 
> ended up downloading and istalling a new text editor. At least, this time, 
> that is very useful to me, as ConTEXT will replace for me the use of Gedit, 
> because ConTEXT handles correctly the Kana shift states (about a half of my 
> keyboard layout). However, as it is new, the support of characters like 
> U+2610 or simply precomposed letters with macron or double acute is not yet 
> ensured. When I've some time left I'll write to them, because the project is 
> very promising.

One needs a good UTF-8 text editor as well.

> > It is simplest to just download the whole Tex Live:
> > https://www.tug.org/texlive/
> > There is special package for OS X.
> 
> Unfortunately I've no OS X machine at home nor otherwhere, nor have I Linux 
> at home. Where I use Ubuntu I cannot install this. I'll check if there is a 
> Windows version, but it seems to move me from my urgent goal, so it'll be for 
> a bit later.

The link above has an entry for that, too.

> > Though large, the main distribution lives in a single directory, so it is 
> > easy to throw away.
> 
> Nor will I throw away this software, could I install it.

It is updated yearly, and there is usually no need to keep the old, but one can 
- they end up different directories.

> > There is a ConTeXt users list 
> > <http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context>, as well as support pages 
> > <http://wiki.contextgarden.net/>
> 
> I'll save, thank you.

It hard to figure out from the documentation, so it might be better to ask 
there.


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