Taco Hoekwater wrote:

For a larger project with ConTeXt that should not depend on the availability of perl. We needed a very large section of Texutil (--ref and --figures), so it made sense to port the entire program to C.

What about using another script language like TCL that can be made into a single file executable? The dependency seems to be "no external reference" and not "no perl" -- isn't it possible to compile a perl prog into an executable?

Essentially, we will have TeX and Texutil and bits of Texexec in a single executable, completely without disk-based versions of the tui and tuo file.

Will this be available for the public? From time to time the question aroses on this list to get a ConTeXt environment without installing a full TeX distribution -- maybe you will have the answer to this :-) Uwe -- voiceINTERconnect www.voiceinterconnect.de ... smart speech applications from germany

Hans Hagen wrote:

http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/linuxtex.zip.bz2 22 M (works ok, all you need for context, run setuptex and you got your tree, fonts etc) http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/macosxtex.zip.bz2 22 M (untested) http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/mswintex.zip.bz2 22 M (works ok)

Wow -- this looks very nice. What version of macosx is it for? (for now I only have 10.1 ...)

http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/tex.iso.bz2 120 M (unzips to an ISO which runs context + everything from cd, for the moment win, including perl/ruby)

Who is maintaining this one? What is needed to expand it for the other systems? Uwe -- voiceINTERconnect www.voiceinterconnect.de ... smart speech applications from germany

Hello, Hans Hagen wrote:

http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/tex.iso.bz2 120 M (unzips to an ISO which runs context + everything from cd, for the moment win, including perl/ruby)

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Who is maintaining this one? What is needed to expand it for the other systems?

i maintain it, and what i need is a version of scite for linux and the mac that can run from cdrom (many linux things have hard coded paths);

With regard to what, perl? In this case, the EVAL mechanism of Thomas Esser works reasonable well. Besides, de facto all Linux have a standard perl at /usr/bin/perl as defined by the FHS and LSB. One cannot assume that ruby is installed, but if then it is installed at /usr/bin/ruby.

when users provide proper *any editor* setups i can add them as well

Well, regarding editors, one can write a script like: ---------------------------------- #!/bin/sh if [ -z "$EDITOR" ]; then command -v editor 2>/dev/null && EDITOR=editor [ -z "$EDITOR ] && EDITOR=vi fi ---------------------------------- I think I should have a look at the ConTeXt Live CD. Regards, Tobias, who wonders why he is only receiving ConTeXt emails via one email address and not via the other, since mailman claims that I'm subscribed.

At 14:03 19/03/2004, you wrote:

Hans Hagen wrote:

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http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/linuxtex.zip.bz2 22 M (works ok, all you need for context, run setuptex and you got your tree, fonts etc)

Oh, and what is justtex.zip.bz2?

I can generate small trees, and justtex is the base system, on top of that i put the texmflocal tree, some more fonts, and binaries; justtex is a subset of tex live

And why are these archives zip.bz2?

the zip itself is uncompressed which bzip2's nicely Hans

Taco Hoekwater wrote:

Incidentally: yes, I have a tex.c. That may in fact become GPL-ed sometime in the future, if and when our finished project deviates sufficiently from tex.c+texutil.c

Very nice -- looking forward to this beast. I think it does run context, doesn't it? Uwe -- voiceINTERconnect www.voiceinterconnect.de ... smart speech applications from germany