Re: [NTG-context] Minimals (was: Ideas for restructuring the ConTeXt garden?)

On Sunday 13 March 2011 07:25:03 luigi scarso wrote:

On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 6:03 AM, Pontus Lurcock wrote:

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On Sat 12 Mar 2011, mathew wrote:

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My experience on Ubuntu is that if you install the ConTeXt minimals in your path, they break a bunch of stuff from TeXLive, such as pdfcrop.

I have the minimals installed but with no automatic setup in .bashrc or similar. So when I need to run ConTeXt, I fire up a new terminal and explicitly ‘source /path/to/minimals/context/tex/setuptex’ before doing anything else. Anything I run in a different terminal just gets the standard paths for the system's TeXLive installation.

this is the right way to work with minimals (in linux is easy than windows).

Except if one works principly with ConTeXt, in which case it is much nicer to have /path/to/minimials by default in PATH. I do the opposite: if ever I need to use latex (lualatex!), this works just fine, except for a few programs such as bibtex for which I just define special aliases: tbibtex -> /usr/local/texlive/2010/bin/x86_64-linux/bibtex etc. I guess that `luatex' is a problem. Maybe the minimals could evolve slightly so that there be *no* name conflicts with texlive except for ConTeXt itself, of course? (It appears that pdfcrop gets broken through a confusion over luatex, perhaps other texlive programs as well.) Alan