Re: [NTG-context] installing two ConTeXt trees

On 9/4/2013 9:05 AM, Otared Kavian wrote:

On 3 sept. 2013, at 19:14, Aditya Mahajan wrote:

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[…] the synctex.gz file is not anymore deleted (however a utility file [file-name].tuc remains).

That (not deleting tuc file) is delebrate (as it saves time in successive runs). If you want to delete the tuc file, you can use --purgeall instead of --purge.

Thanks Aditya: actually that utility file .tuc can be deleted for some situations (for instance when one does a small test) and kept for others. Maybe for those who do not use ConTeXt from a Terminal, but rather from editors like TeXShop or TeXWorks, one could have a feature to pass typesetting options to mkiv, for instance like a \setuptypesetting command, to be put in the first five lines of a document, which accepts various parameters such as for example \setuptypesetting[purge=yes,synctex={yes,zipped},engine=mkiv]

to pass options to mkiv. But this is probably too complicated.

as an experiment i now also check the preamble for a ctxfile specification make a file "preferences.ctx", put it someplace in the tree and run mtxrun --generate: <?xml version='1.0' standalone='yes'?> ctx:job ctx:messagedefault flags ctx:flags ctx:flagpurge ctx:flagsynctex=zipped then you can say: % ctxfile=preferences \starttext whatever \stoptext ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------