Hello all, As I cannot use rsynch to update ConTeXt, I was wondering if the MikTeX distribution might provide an alternative route to getting updates. There are questions: 1) The Wiki page on MikTeX (http://wiki.contextgarden.net/MikTeX) still says it's broken. I presume this is out of date? 2) Does MKIV work in MikTeX? 3) How often will the MikTeX distribution be updated with a new ConTeXt? I guess I only need updating a couple of times a year, now that MKIV is looking pretty good. 4) Does TeXworks (which is part of MikTeX distribution) work with ConTeXt? 5) Any opinions or advice? Thanks, Richard Converteam UK Ltd. Registration Number: 5571739 and Converteam Ltd. Registration Number: 2416188 Registered in England and Wales. Registered office: Boughton Road, Rugby, Warwickshire, CV21 1BU. CONFIDENTIALITY : This e-mail and any attachments are confidential and may be privileged. If you are not a named recipient, please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose the contents to another person, use it for any purpose or store or copy the information in any medium. http://www.converteam.com Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail.
Am Wed, 24 Nov 2010 09:27:32 +0000 schrieb Richard Stephens:
Hello all,
As I cannot use rsynch to update ConTeXt, I was wondering if the MikTeX distribution might provide an alternative route to getting updates. There are questions: 1) The Wiki page on MikTeX (http://wiki.contextgarden.net/MikTeX) still says it's broken. I presume this is out of date?
Yes.
2) Does MKIV work in MikTeX?
In principle yes. There is a problem with the search pathes: context finds files everywhere in the texmf-trees. This can lead to problems.
3) How often will the MikTeX distribution be updated with a new ConTeXt?
No idea.
4) Does TeXworks (which is part of MikTeX distribution) work with ConTeXt?
I didn't try but I don't see a reason why not. You will have to add tool which calls context.exe. I had no problems to adapt winedt. -- Ulrike Fischer
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 10:27, Richard Stephens wrote:
As I cannot use rsynch to update ConTeXt, I was wondering if the MikTeX distribution might provide an alternative route to getting updates. There are questions:
Is it a firewall problem or something else?
3) How often will the MikTeX distribution be updated with a new ConTeXt? I guess I only need updating a couple of times a year, now that MKIV is looking pretty good.
You need to ask Christian Schenk about that. ConTeXt is tightly bound to a specific LuaTeX version. So until version of LuaTeX is updated in MikTeX, there is no way to update ConTeXt there (unless somebody does a heavy patching or backporting of features; which won't happen). It is quite possible that LuaTeX will only be updated with MikTeX 2.10. The history of MikTeX says that there have usually been major version releases in intervals from 8 months up to 3 years, so maybe you won't see any ConTeXt update in MikTeX during the next year or two. I used to have two separate trees: one for MikTeX and one from Pragma and if MikTeX failed, I switched the distribution temporary.
4) Does TeXworks (which is part of MikTeX distribution) work with ConTeXt?
There is no reason why it shouldn't. Mojca
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