On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 4:36 PM, Andrea Valle wrote:
Hi to all, I've briefly presented ConTeXt to the students of my course in Visual Identities. They were all enthusiastic. So they asked me if I can give an introductory but "real" seminar. At my lab the students are all on macosx 10.4/5. Now the probem: All my students comes from humanities, no computer science background at all. I cannot ask them to be aware of low level installation aspects. My ideal would be something like the standard ConTeXt I was working with an year ago. One installs MacTeX and can start working. Now, we need easy font switching. I'm actually using XeTeX. But it has been complicated to set it up. I don't think I can have my students dig into installations ("patch this" etc). Is there any chance to have luatex into the next MacTeX distro? Any ideas?
Oliver (who's comming to the meeting with the same probability as you are :) is preparing an installer for Mac, but his last notification was: "I have put it aside for a while since the tools for packaging are buggy." Actually, it should not be that much work to make the minimals behave the same was as MacTeX, but I don't have enough motivation and skills to dig into a proper installer. TeX Live 2008 will include LuaTeX, and so will MacTeX (if they create it). Have you ever tried to install minimals (http://minimals.contextgarden.net/)? Mojca