Hi, I've MacTeX + Minimals. I use minimals with Smultron. http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_Minimals/Mac_Installation Best -a- On 21 Jan 2009, at 23:20, Mojca Miklavec wrote:

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 9:09 PM, David Rogers wrote:

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Hello all

I'm going to do a clean re-install of my machine (Tiger on PPC) soon, and I'd like guidance on methods of installing ConTeXt. I assume that (a) TeX Live 2008 with its tlmgr utility, or (b) ConTeXt minimals, are the two realistic possibilities - is this correct?

What I'd like:

- A clear way of keeping ConTeXt mkiv usable and up to date with Hans's latest version

- An installation method that will continue to be maintained, and that is expected to be used by the majority of ordinary users of ConTeXt in the future

...So should I go for TeX Live, or the minimals, or something else I don't know about yet?

I would suggest MacTeX 2008 + minimals.

I have both, with manually slightly updated ConTeXt in MacTeX 2008. MacTeX is nice since it "always works" (includes LaTeX and dozens of fonts and other packages that might be missing in minimals) and you have a backup system in case that the "latest alpha" in minimals gets broken.

I have this in ~/.bash_profile: #. context/tex/setuptex context/tex

and I keep commenting/uncommenting it as needed (or just execute that line in bash). The nice thing about minimals is that it doesn't interfere with other TeX distributions, so you can have it installed in parallel and it doesn't take too much space when compared with TeX Live.

You need some additional hacks to get the minimals working in gui applications. Oliver started writing an installer that could simplify matters a bit, but got stuck with some external bugs at some point and didn't publically release anything yet.

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