Hello, Is there anyone who updated ConTeXt MkIV in TL2010? Is there more information about how this can be done safely? (where you copy and what to run ...) I am interested in the latest updates, but I do not want to get into trouble with a bad update. Last time I stopped in ConTeXt TL2009 quite work and I had to completely install TL2010. Thanks Jaroslav
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 3:11 PM, Jaroslav Hajtmar
Hello, Is there anyone who updated ConTeXt MkIV in TL2010? Is there more information about how this can be done safely? (where you copy and what to run ...) The best and only way to run mkiv is minimals, not texlive; texlive is ok for mkii (as also minimals, anyway).
-- luigi
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 15:11, Jaroslav Hajtmar wrote:
Hello, Is there anyone who updated ConTeXt MkIV in TL2010? Is there more information about how this can be done safely? (where you copy and what to run ...)
You may use tlmgr update --all but this will only update some minor trivial fixes (for example I just commited fixes for Antykwa Poltawskiego after the font has been released). If you want to have the latest ConTeXt, you also need to update luatex, but also some other tools have changed since TL release. I would suggest to install minimals if you want the latest ConTeXt ... or at least wait for Taco's new server. Apart from that you are free to put the latest ConTeXt into texmf-local, replace luatex binary with the one from minimals and update mtxrun script manually. It is not nice & clean to do it, but it should work. (If anything breaks badly, you might end up installing from scratch, but well ...) Mojca
Thanx... Mojca Will simultaneously use the ConTeXt minimals and ConTeXt in the TL2010? Does anyone with experience? I'd hate to spoil the installation Jaroslav Dne 22.9.2010 15:31, Mojca Miklavec napsal(a):
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 15:11, Jaroslav Hajtmar wrote:
Hello, Is there anyone who updated ConTeXt MkIV in TL2010? Is there more information about how this can be done safely? (where you copy and what to run ...)
You may use tlmgr update --all but this will only update some minor trivial fixes (for example I just commited fixes for Antykwa Poltawskiego after the font has been released).
If you want to have the latest ConTeXt, you also need to update luatex, but also some other tools have changed since TL release.
I would suggest to install minimals if you want the latest ConTeXt ... or at least wait for Taco's new server. Apart from that you are free to put the latest ConTeXt into texmf-local, replace luatex binary with the one from minimals and update mtxrun script manually. It is not nice& clean to do it, but it should work. (If anything breaks badly, you might end up installing from scratch, but well ...)
Mojca
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 18:43, Jaroslav Hajtmar wrote:
Thanx... Mojca Will simultaneously use the ConTeXt minimals and ConTeXt in the TL2010? Does anyone with experience? I'd hate to spoil the installation
I have two installations of TeX Live, one is somehow globally set somewhere (MacTeX 2010), I initialize one with export PATH=~/bin:~/soft/texlive/2010/bin/x86_64-darwin:$PATH in .bash_profile (and that one is used in Terminal/shell if I don't do anything extra). In addition I have zillions of ConTeXt minimals lying around. Every time when I want to switch to ConTeXt minimals, I execute . ~/context/tex/setuptex (or add ~/context/tex/texmf-osx-64/bin to PATH variable - which is equivalent to executing setuptex). I could have added ~/context/tex/texmf-osx-64/bin to PATH in .bash_profile and then minimals would be used by default and I would have to modify path whenever I would want to use TeX Live. Basically all you need to do to change the distribution used is to change PATH. Mojca
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