Re: [NTG-context] Problem following "OpenType installation basics for ConTeXt" article

Gavin Sinclair wrote:

On 9/8/05, Mojca Miklavec wrote:

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Gavin Sinclair wrote:

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Adam Lindsay wrote:

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(This doesn't look like the problem here, but) Are you running the latest ConTeXt? There was a bug in the OpenType support in TeXFont that was fixed in the distribution as of a couple months ago.

I believe so. I installed ConTeXt for the first time about 10 days ago. It was a MiKTeX package, so I'm relying on that being up to date.

Don't rely on it. MikTeX has just updated ConTeXt (after two months). Once during the last weekend and once on Monday (5.9.). However, the format is from 27.7., 6 official releases ago. Minimal ConTeXt distribution (or replacing some files in teTeX for example) is the best way if you want to keep up-to-date. (MikTeX has some other advantages however.)

Thanks for the tip. texexec --version tells me

context : ver: 2005.06.27 cont-en : ver: 2005.06.27 fmt: 2005.8.31 mes: english

which is pretty uncool. I guess I'll give the mswincontext.zip a try. I've hesitated because I don't see any clear instructions anywhere and the directory structure in that zip file is unusual for a Windows distro. Also don't want to ditch MiKTeX entirely because I'm experimenting with LyX. Sigh...

How about just installing ConTeXt myself on top of MiKTeX? Should work, right?

just unzip the file in some safe place, running 'setuptex' (in a dos box) should give you an isolated tex environment; it's on my agenda to provide a miktex bintree as well, but only for testing since miktex has a rather good update mechanism (no reason to duplicate that -) [my main reason for putting the minimals on the web is that they provide isolated environments, which is somethign i need for projects]; they also demonstrate what is needed for context Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------