Hi Thomas,
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 09:57:26 -0700, Thomas A. Schmitz
On Feb 22, 2007, at 5:40 PM, Idris Samawi Hamid wrote:
after some testing taco and i found out that tl has recent map files but that there's a problem with rsync and time outs on large trees, which is why my local texlive copy is incomplete; so, it mostly depends on what snapshot one uses
This is exactly why I stick with mswincontext.zip, to avoid headaches like this ;-)
I sympathize, but I think you're a bit unfair here. If I understand Hans's mail right, he was not installing from the image, but rsyncing his trees with TeXLive, and that's where the error was. I've been running the development version for at least three months now (even when it still was called 2006...) and haven't had any troubles, especially wrt to fonts and packages.
Point taken, although for the record I finally abandoned TeXLive a couple of years ago or so because of headaches with getting ever-newer versions of ConTeXt working right, then there was aleph and...
On a linux or OS X box, I would even recommend installing it alongside the minimal and switch between them to test things, but I have no idea if/how this is possible on winblows.
Well, there's setuptex.bat which allows this and I do have a XemTeX tree from Fabrice. Maybe I'll update XemTeX and see what happens. Best Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/