On Feb 21, 2007, at 10:04 PM, Idris Samawi Hamid wrote:

Ahh, but I just use mswincontext, no TeXLive, so install I must ;-)

Idris

What an excellent occasion to switch to something more standard ;-)) Thomas

On Feb 22, 2007, at 5:40 PM, Idris Samawi Hamid wrote:

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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 ;-)

Idris

Idris, 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. 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. Best Thomas

On Feb 22, 2007, at 6:17 PM, luigi scarso wrote:

I would like to test this texlive edition: how can i do (I'm using linux ubuntu) ?

Luigi, you can download the compressed iso image at a CTAN mirror under / systems/texlive/Images. It's 935 MB, so if you're on a slow connection, you'll be back next week... Then, refer to the installation instructions on the wiki: http:// wiki.contextgarden.net/TeX-live The most important thing is that after installation (befor you try to build the formats etc.), you should make sure that the new binaries come in your $PATH before anything else, so something like export PATH="/usr/local/texlive/2007/bin/i386-linux $PATH" should get you going. Once that is done, everything else is almost automatic: the kpathsearch library will find the other parts of the TeX installation relative to the place where its own binaries are, so when you invoke fmtutil-sys --all, all the format files will be placed in the new trees. If you decide you want to revert to your old system, simply remove /usr/local/texlive/2007/bin/i386-linux from your path again. I hope I'm not forgetting anything important... Thomas

luigi scarso wrote:

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especially wrt to fonts and packages. 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.

I would like to test this texlive edition: how can i do (I'm using linux ubuntu) ?

since syncing can be a proble, probably the best way is to download the iso image; here i never bother with installation script, i just copy the trees to one texmf tree; i use my own txmf.cnf file because i want extra trees (texmf-fonts, my dev paths, write18, etc) so i cannot check that part Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

Hi Thomas, On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 09:57:26 -0700, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:

On Feb 22, 2007, at 5:40 PM, Idris Samawi Hamid wrote:

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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/

rpmbuild --rebuild --force http://pmrb.free.fr/texlive/texlive.nosrc.rpm

With a not too bad connection to the Internet and enough disk space, this works quite well (no headaches!).

and maybe also with a very recent rpm. Sadly, my rpm (v4.4.1 on Ubuntu) segfaults with that command. The bug is entered in the Redhat bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=227333 With rpm development happening again, hopefully it'll be fixed. I couldn't get a recent rpm to compile here in order to test whether it's already fixed. -Sanjoy `Not all those who wander are lost.' (J.R.R. Tolkien)

Idris Samawi Hamid wrote:

Hi Thomas,

On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 09:57:26 -0700, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:

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On Feb 22, 2007, at 5:40 PM, Idris Samawi Hamid wrote:

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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 ;-)

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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...

if you don't need latex or else, the minimals are quite convenient, and when you also use scite, the mswintex one is even more convenient going is step further ... some day you'll only need luatex.exe and context.zip btw, i'll make new minimals one of these days

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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.

i'm not sure if xemtex is up to date Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

Hi, I'm working on a crtical edition manual/module for ConTeXt. If you like I can keep you posted on its progress... 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/

On Wed, 21 Feb 2007, Idris Samawi Hamid wrote:

On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 14:49:08 -0700, Willi Egger wrote:

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Hi,

Indeed it is best to unzip the pgf yip in a standalone folder. I installed the context related material in the folder ../tex/context/ third/pgf The rest went into ../tex/generic/pgf. Beyond this you need to fetch the xkeyval package and put it into .../ tex/latex/xkeyval or similar.

After updating the filedatabase it should work.

That's about exactly what I did :-)

This really is neat package, I'm already making and configuring trees...

Also have a look at http://www.fauskes.net/pgftikzexamples/all/ Aditya