On May 2, 2008, at 10:36 PM, cidadaum@sapo.pt wrote:
I see... I cringe so much of
Don't. We've all been beginners once and needed help. You just need to learn to follow a systematic approach and read replies to your questions more carefully...
Oh boy. This is really not the place where your personal additions to your TeX installation should go.
Please, where is the right place?
That was indicated in my reply to your first question; quoting myself: I would advise, however, to install additional packages either to the local texmf tree or to you personal tree. These are defined in the file /etc/ texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf as TEXMFLOCAL = /usr/local/share/texmf and TEXMFHOME = $HOME/TEXMF The point is: when SuSE installs a new version of texlive, it will simply overwrite your files (even if you have edited them) or delete the old directories. Moreover, if you make a mistake here, you can simply erase the directory and start over. That's why it is considered good practice to keep ths distribution files and your local/personal additions separate.
Right. My Context is from 2007. The point is that I am so clumsy about installing something on OpenSuse/Linux (I have a Windows machine using MikTex, suppose that doesn't help) that I do it always on line with a repo. Download and install rpm packages (or other files) rarely turns out to be good. But anyway I have tried to install according to the recipe I found on wiki (http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Linux_User_Installation). Didn't manage. If you have no other suggestion I can try again and post the result.
OK, there are several problems here: 1. SuSE's texlive installation has some problems, esp. when you try to use luatex; 2. the latest ConTeXt release will also need the latest latin modern fonts, which (I guess) are not available as a package for SuSE yet. 3. This being said, it is entirely possible to update ConTeXt within your SuSE texlive installation (I have been doing this for several years now). - create directory /usr/local/share/texmf - cd /usr/local/share/texmf - sudo wget http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/current/cont-tmf.zip - sudo unzip cont-tmf.zip - sudo texhash - sudo texexec --make --all --pdftex - sudo texexec --make --all --xtx
Which manual says that ConTeXt expects pure ASCII input?
This one: mp-cb-en.pdf. Quoting from page 1:
"CONTEXT expects a plain ASCII input file. Of course you can use any texteditor or wordprocessor you want, but you should not forget that CONTEXT can only read ASCII input. Most texteditors or wordprocessors can export your file as plain ASCII."
OK, you're right. This is really obsolete (and has been so for several years). We've been collecting such things for a while now, but this is seriously misleading. Hans, any chance of regenerating the m*-cb-en.pdfs and taking this paragraph out? Thomas