Thanks, Michael; this is very helpful. I will prepare a .bash_profile file and try it out. Where did you put your .bash_profile file? Alan On Aug 31, 2008, at 13;09,32 , Michael Green wrote:

On Aug 30, 2008, Alan Bowen wrote:

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What follows are some queries that I will be happy to write up for the wiki. The aim (hope?) is to develop a set of instructions for installing the minimals on a Mac that a Mac user without any real knowledge of unix (such as myself) can follow easily. (There are a number of people scattered around the world who help me in producing various publications; and since they too are not unix savvy, I need such instructions if we are to keep our installations functioning and up to date.)

Once the ConTeXt minimals are installed in the Applications folder and the user can run \starttext Hello world! \stoptext which is where the wiki (Installation>section 1.2) currently leaves off, there still remain a few tasks.

Specifically,

(a) getting this ConTeXt installation to recognize a personal texmf directory

(b) running the various binaries (e.g., texmfstart, ctxtools) in / Applications/ConTeXtMinimals from Terminal

(c) establishing synchronization between PDF output and its ConTeXt source. Currently, it does not seem to work (with TeXShop at least) Note, in the latest TeXShop there is Added support for SyncTeX. SyncTeX is new synchronization technology by Jerome Laurens which is included in TeX Live 2008 (but not earlier TeX distributions). The technology is built directly into pdfTeX and XeTeX. In modern TeX distributions, most typesetting actually calls pdfetex (even if using latex to output a dvi file), and thus the technology is available for such typesetting. To use the technology, add the flag --synctex=1

Any advice on how to do (a), (b), and (c) will be much appreciated.

Alan

I installed ConTeXt Minimals in my home directory's Applications folder (not the applications folder for the system as a whole). I'm reluctant to write in because my understanding of what I'm doing is shallow and I haven't used my solution beyond a few simple tests.

With that said, adding the following three lines to .bash_profile seems to work for me.

source ~/Applications/context/tex/setuptex ~/Applications/context/tex TEXMFHOME=$HOME/Library/texmf TEXMF={$TEXMFHOME,!!$TEXMFPROJECT,!!$TEXMFFONTS,!!$TEXMFLOCAL,!! $TEXMFCONTEXT,!!$TEXMFEXTRA,!!$TEXMFMAIN}

Here is how I understand what I did.

(A) I think that the second and third lines (TEXMFHOME ... and TEXMF ...) handle issue (a).

I copied them from a message I read on the developer list.

http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/ 20080607.102038.6212fc3c.en.html

I should add that the author, Oliver Buerschaper wrote to complain that additions to the personal texmf tree were not automatically recognized. He had to run luatools --generate again after changing something. I have no idea if this has been fixed since June, when he wrote his message. I assume it has, but haven't tested it.

(B) I think that the first line (source ...) handles issue (b). It tells the shell to look for TeX binaries in ~/Applications/context/ tex.

This is the second instruction from the Linux/Mac/BSD section of the wiki's installation page, modified for my particular case.

http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_Minimals#Linux.2FMac.2FFreeBSD

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