Am 26.01.2015 um 14:03 schrieb Mojca Miklavec
On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 1:40 PM, Keith Schultz wrote:
Hi Alex,
The simple answer to your question would be to use this page:
No, in case of ConTeXt that's not correct. The idea would be to handle everything automatically once the modules are uploaded to modules.contextgarden.net. Some discrepancies are intentional, some are "bugs" (read as: nobody noticed that a module was missing and/or bothered requesting it).
That's what I was hoping.
I would suggest that you point them to the Standalone stable release, if you actually need the missing third party modules.
No, wait, let's try to clear things up first.
If modules should be on CTAN and aren't, I'll add them to CTAN. If modules are on CTAN, but not in TeX Live, we should figure out why they are excluded from TeX Live and either make sure that they are either added to TeX Live (if there are no problems with licencing, packaging etc.) or removed from CTAN (in case they are not really useful). We could keep some modules on CTAN if they are useful, but don't qualify for TL inclusion for some obscure reason.
Two modules that are on CTAN but not on TeX Live are the URW font support files. The fonts are non-commercial thus the support files are not included. The fonts are on CTAN and there is a utility to install them to texmf-local. (Probably not needed for MkIV.)
"Don't use TeX Live" could be the proper advice for someone who wants to use the latest version of ConTeXt, but one shouldn't confuse the user just because a module is missing in TL by accident.
I prefer the "Everything is already on your computer, let's try it!" approach. Having to install (and maintain) a second system makes it difficult to convince someone to try ConTeXt. Maybe the install instructions on the wiki should be amended for TL 2014. I look into that once the visualcounter is in TeX Live:-) Axel