Re: [NTG-context] Documentation about CTX installation on MacOS X

Le 3 janv. 2022 à 09:22, Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context a écrit :

Am 03.01.22 um 08:09 schrieb Jean-Pierre Delange via ntg-context:

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Thank you very much for your quick answer to you both Fabrice and Henning ! It seems there is no detailed documentation about peculiar aspects of CTX on MacOS. For instance, the use of fonts database on unix-like and MacOS are a bit different (but not quite a lot) and this command : mtxrun --script fonts —reload Works fine with this one based on fontconfig: fc-cache -v -f

I don’t remember to have used this for years. ConTeXt AFAIK doesn’t use fontconfig. (LilyPond does…)

fc-cache -v -f works fine on MacOS aswell as on Linux; try some command like this one : fc-list : file family |grep \/Library which list all fonts and their location

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There is some adaptation in the transition from Linux to MacOS, because one has to play and to look for the fonts paths which are a bit different with Mac than the Unix paths …

Of course, but that is basic MacOS knowledge and not specific to ConTeXt.

You’re right !

You might want to set:

OSFONTDIR='/System/Library/Fonts//:/Library/Fonts//:~/Library/Fonts//:/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Fonts// #:~/FontExplorer\ X/Font\ Library//'

ICCPROFILES='~/Library/ColorSync/Profiles//:/Library/ColorSync/Profiles//:/System/Library/ColorSync/Profiles//:'

PATH=~/lmtx/tex/texmf-osx-64/bin:/Library/TeX/texbin:... (whereever you installed ConTeXt)

context, latex, mtxrun, mtxrun.lua are installed in /Users/xxx/context/tex/texmf-osx-64/bin … I’ve forgotten that CTX doesn’t exist no more since it replacement by Luametatex ! I still use ConTeXt MKIV ...

I also suggest to install everything personal in ~/texmf (same on Linux) and not in texmf-local or texmf-project, at least if you are planning to have parallel installations (which make sense if you want to keep a "stable" version but also want to check out new features/bugfixes).

I thought that all personal fonts should be added in texmf-fonts ? By the way, it might be useful to have . setuptex command. How to deal with such a situation, when mtxrun command doesn’t work ?

Hraban

Thanks you very much, Hraban, for these advices ! JP

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