Hi all, I do a lot of LaTeX writing as my stuff is very math intensive, but I have a lot of interest in ConTeXt as I would like my books to look better. Anyway, I try on and off to get ConTeXt running so I can experiment. I just spent a pleasurable day playing. Here is what I found. It was pretty easy to install the newest minimals. I just followed the instructions and installed it in a local place separate from my texlive2009 installation. I spent a lot of time with a direct update of ConTeXt into my texlive2009 folder (yes, I know I was doomed but I was on a roll). I found the usual errors running either luatools --generate or mtxrun --generate and also context --make All the files needed to make this work are actually installed, but the problem is the way luatools finds stuff and caches it. Something is wrong there. The files that are in the folder can't be located. Also, with my local minimals installed and trying to add ConTeXt to my texlive2009, luatools seemed to find the ConTeXt stuff from both minimals and texlive2009. That was not good, but temporarily removing the minimals did not change the bad results, still I have no idea how to get luatools to ignore the minimals folder when it is setting up the cache. Finally, this all started because I am tired of my bad chemical drawings in my books and wanted to use the package m-ch-en in LaTeX. The original context supplied with texlive2009 wouldn't let me compile a m-ch-en source so since I am still heavily using LaTeX, I wanted to update luatex, context etc to see if I could get it to work. I still can't use context from texlive2009, but with my updates I can compile m-ch-en source. So at least a small win. The ConTeXt stuff is fascinating and I am moving towards it, but I need to do it in baby steps and I need to do it with a concomittant LaTeX installation. So I will eagerly await any sort of a fix for a LaTeX/ConTeXt combined world while I continue to learn and move away for LaTeX. As a long time user of LaTeX, I know its limitations very well and ConTeXt will allow me to do more interesting things. Keep up the good work. I read the digest every day and look around the wiki too. Thanks! Jim Peterson
On 08/09/2010 03:15 AM, James K. Peterson wrote:
The ConTeXt stuff is fascinating and I am moving towards it, but I need to do it in baby steps and I need to do it with a concomittant LaTeX installation. So I will eagerly await any sort of a fix for a LaTeX/ConTeXt combined world while I continue to learn and move away for LaTeX.
As a long time user of LaTeX, I know its limitations very well and ConTeXt will allow me to do more interesting things.
TeXLive 2010 should solve many (if not all) of your problems. Best wishes, Taco
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James K. Peterson
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Taco Hoekwater