Re: [NTG-context] Installing ConTeXt Minimals on a Mac

2 Sep 2008

      On Sep 1, 2008, at 17;38,50 , Mojca Miklavec wrote:
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On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 10:43 PM, Alan Bowen   
wrote:
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On Sep 1, 2008, at 13;43,19 , Mojca Miklavec wrote:
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On Sep 1, 2008, at 12;24,41 , Mojca Miklavec wrote:
For setting HOMETEXMF you can help yourself, though it would be  
nice
if we provided a solution that worked out of the box. But I would
like
to get a confirmation from Hans that it's OK to do that.
I have modified the texmf.cnf in
./Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf/web2c with the lines
export HOMETEXMF=~/Library/texmf
export
TEXMF='{$TEXMFHOME,$TEXMFLOCAL,!!$TEXMFOS,!!$TEXMFCONTEXT,!!
$TEXMFEXTRA,!!$TEXMFMAIN}'
but ConTeXt still does not find my personal texmf folder
I probably told you wrong, but:
1.) you have HOMETEXMF first and then TEXMFHOME: these need to be
equal
2.) unless you are following (3), don't modify the file in texmf/,
but create
/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-local/web2c/texmf.cnf
instead, else the file will be overwritten at first update
3.) even then I'm not completely sure, but I guess that  
environmental
variables override settings in texmf.cnf, so you either need to
a) modify setuptex (rename it and run the renamed file instead of
setuptex)
b) only export PATH and not run setuptex at all; in that case values
from texmf.cnf will be used
- maybe you need to run "mktexlsr" or "luatools --generate"
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OK. One quick reply just to see if I am on track.
I have created /Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-local/web2c/
texmf.cnf
where texmf.cnf now has
export HOMETEXMF=~/Library/texmf
export TEXMF='{$HOMETEXMF,$TEXMFLOCAL,!!$TEXMFOS,!!$TEXMFCONTEXT,!!
(hopefully the line continues ...)
The lines you have written here belong to "setuptex", not to
texmf.cnf. The syntax for setuptex is slightly different.
HOMETEXMF     = ~/Library/texmf
# single line
TEXMF = {$HOMETEXMF,!!$TEXMFPROJECT,!!$TEXMFFONTS,!!$TEXMFLOCAL,!! 
$TEXMFCONTEXT,!!$TEXMFEXTRA,!!$TEXMFMAIN}
But try putting™
  export HOMETEXMF=~/Library/texmf
# single line
  export TEXMF='{$HOMETEXMF,$TEXMFLOCAL,!!$TEXMFOS,!!$TEXMFCONTEXT,!! 
$TEXMFEXTRA,!!$TEXMFMAIN}'
into setuptex (replace the old variables). The problem is that if you
adapt texmf.cnf only, you still override those settings with setuptex.
I hope I have understood this properly.  I now have
HOMETEXMF     = ~/Library/texmf
TEXMF = {$HOMETEXMF,!!$TEXMFPROJECT,!!$TEXMFFONTS,!!$TEXMFLOCAL,!!
in my /ConteXtMinimals/tex/texmf-local/texmf.cnf.

I have also inserted the lines
export HOMETEXMF=~/Library/texmf
and
export TEXMF='{$HOMETEXMF,$TEXMFLOCAL,!!$TEXMFOS,!!$TEXMFCONTEXT,!! 
$TEXMFEXTRA,!!$TEXMFMAIN}'

into a file formed by copying the content of setuptex.

But before I can test this, assuming that so far is so good, I need to  
turn my setuptex (which is natively a .tex file) into unix executable.  
How do I do this?

Alan
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There is one thing that you could try (I never use TeXShop, but
there's a change that it works):
~/Library/TeXShop/Engines/ConTeXt-pdfTeX.engine
#!/bin/bash
export PATH=/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-osx-intel:$PATH
texexec "$1"
~/Library/TeXShop/Engines/ConTeXt-luaTeX.engine
#!/bin/bash
export PATH=/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-osx-intel:$PATH
export TEXMFCACHE=/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-cache
context "$1"
~/Library/TeXShop/Engines/ConTeXt-XeTeX.engine
#!/bin/bash
export PATH=/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-osx-intel:$PATH
texexec --xtx "$1"
(sorry for two different proposals - I should probably only send you a
single one)
Mojca
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