Re: [NTG-context] Standalone Installation Question

To: ConTeXt package maintainer for TeXlive distribution: TeXlive as of 2011 or so is compatible under unix type with cygwin. I do not want to use the Microsoft version. There is no reason from me to change code and scripts to work with Microsoft's methods. Also I will not give up the unix developement environment that cygwin delivers to work with ConteXt. I'd like to know the the Context package that was submitted to TeXlive. I presume this was in soure format. How can I get that for the beta/current MKIV and build it myself? Thanks luigi scarso wrote:

On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 3:54 PM, wrote:

Yes I saw the Windows version of Context mentioned and read it, but the documentation is, in this case, wrong or not fully correct. This is because I am now using Context which comes is included in the TexLive distribution, selected with Unix like operating systems. No bat files or other ancillary code or invokations are necessary.

Texlive's Context program would probably not run directly on Microsoft Windows O.S. hm, my experience is the opposite: texlive context runs on Windows, but I don't use it because the standalone also works under Windows. (I use the texlive for all the rest, btw).

I believe that the documentation can be expanded to cover using a Context on Cygwin directly and not the Microsoft port which requires the usage of strange Microsoft pathnames, with C:\ and \ seperators.

Using context on cygwin for cygwin may only have been done in TexLive for Unix like systems, but I'd like to use and test on the bleeding edge MKIV. But, that proves that it can be done. I just don't know what was done.

In this case I think it's better to use the standalone directly on Windows.

-- luigi

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