I second Andrea's opinion -- I'm also looking forward to a
straightforward way of updating ConTeXt and kin. I'm comfortable with
ctxtools --updatecontext,
but much less comfortable updating binaries and fonts, based on my
experience screwing up my installation; a nice Mac OS X interface to
deal with all these would be great. How about allowing installation of
modules from http://modules.contextgarden.net, too?
(I admit that there's probably a good deal of FUD here on my part and
it's not as complicated as I think it is. My guess, though, is that I'm
not alone.)
Jesse
Andrea Valle
Wow, much needed. Looking forward to see it.
Best
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On 11 Jun 2008, at 18:05, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 4:55 PM, Andrea Valle wrote:
Hi Oliver,
I've already assembled a working ConTeXt package based on the minimals that installs via the Apple installer. In other words, it will provide the same seamless installation experience to the user as known from the MacTeX package and, in fact, as known from any decent Mac software.
Fantastic. Exactly what I need. But will you include TeXShop?
You can use the existing TeXShop or any other editor. Besides that, in summer or autumn a new cross-platform editor by Jonathan Kew will be available.
Will the tex file system be local (i.e. separated from the usual locations) ?
You will be able to use PreferencePane to select whether you want to use MacTeX or ConTeXt minimals (and which version), and that will be done globally. /usr/texbin will be a symlink to binaries.
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