If if you got it installed, you next will need a GUI for running ConTeXt, and if some problem arises, you are further away from the solution than ever. :-(
Sorry, you can't use TeX in a decent way if you can't use a shell (AKA command line AKA Terminal AKA DOS box).
That's not true. Installing mactex doesn't require you to use terminal. It comes with TeXShop. Works out of the box. That was my first ConTeXt experience. Positive. Then I went into some memory problems with MetaPost, then I had to modify some sources (thanks to Mojca) to work with XeTeX. Really a boring experience. Please don't tell me that the tree structure of the TeX distro is easy to understand and traverse.
Please everyone try to become computer literate! (see also works by Friedrich Kittler)
I agree with you. But it depends on what "computer literate" means. For me computer science is the science of algorithms (see the definition of Schneider and Gersting). So, I'm interested in a higher level perspective. Otherwise, I could start from assembler. Note also that I'm always teaching computer programming to students in humanities. I'm asking them big steps into computer literacy. But I cannot exaggerate. I'm teaching them SuperCollider and Nodebox. I'd like to teach ConTeXt focusing in computational typography, not into unix file system (even if it can be very relevant). Note also that from the previous posts I still have not exactly understood what I have to do to install Luatex (the famous minimals), and it seems that many people are confused like me on using system fonts. I'm scared of tweaking my actual XeConTeXt distro because to install it has been a pain. Of course, everyone on the mailing list here is very friendly and helpful, but I'd like not to bore you all with install troubles. Best -a-
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