Partick,
I am currently working in a Windows (XP) environment but if it makes a difference and Linux is more suitable for a Tex environment I move to a Unix based one then. Thanks for the reply.
Patrick Gundlach
Could one of you please recommend a document that tells me what to download and how to install and run a Tex application such as "Context" and how to compose and compile a document such as a booklet or more? I like to learn and use Tex and have absolutely no experience with it. Thank you all.
You can take a look at the ConTeXt wiki (see below for address). If you have a current TeX distribution, you are probably ready to go. If not, get one, such as teTeX for Unix or MikTeX for Windows. Tell us more about your environment. Patrick -- ConTeXt wiki and more: http://contextgarden.net _______________________________________________ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context Regards, Loeghmon Tadayon Nejad
I am currently working in a Windows (XP) environment but if it makes a difference and Linux is more suitable for a Tex environment I move to a Unix based one then. Thanks for the reply.
No problem, there are several windows users on this list. But I don't know which distribution is currently preferred. MikTeX? http://www.miktex.org/ You should be able to produce ConTeXt documents out of the box when installed properly. Hope this helps, Patrick -- ConTeXt wiki and more: http://contextgarden.net
Patrick Gundlach wrote:
I am currently working in a Windows (XP) environment but if it makes a difference and Linux is more suitable for a Tex environment I move to a Unix based one then. Thanks for the reply.
No problem, there are several windows users on this list. But I don't know which distribution is currently preferred. MikTeX?
I can't speak for any other distribution, but MikTeX is practically mindlessly easy to install and maintain. And it seems to work.
http://www.miktex.org/ You should be able to produce ConTeXt documents out of the box when installed properly.
Hope this helps,
Patrick
Gary wrote:
Patrick Gundlach wrote:
I am currently working in a Windows (XP) environment but if it makes a difference and Linux is more suitable for a Tex environment I move to a Unix based one then. Thanks for the reply.
No problem, there are several windows users on this list. But I don't know which distribution is currently preferred. MikTeX?
I can't speak for any other distribution, but MikTeX is practically mindlessly easy to install and maintain. And it seems to work.
http://www.miktex.org/ You should be able to produce ConTeXt documents out of the box when installed properly.
Hope this helps,
Patrick
I would definitely not recommend MikTeX. Sooner or later, if your projects are growing, you run into the error: ! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [hash size=35000]. and MikTeX does not provide a way to increase hash size. See the discussion on http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20031205.084314.a5019886.html Sytse
Loeghmon Tadayon Nejad wrote:
Partick,
I am currently working in a Windows (XP) environment but if it makes a difference and Linux is more suitable for a Tex environment I move to a Unix based one then. Thanks for the reply.
there is no difference between windows/mac/linux with regards to tex; it all depends on what other tools and editors you want to use; here we use all platforms mixed: we use windows for development and projects (most convenient for the kind of work we do), linux for (web) server based apps including tex (quite stable); and we will start using macs for some projects, and maybe also as a replacement for the linux file/mail/etc servers (best interface/hardware) Because i want to post a new context zip with svg support, today i spent the whole day trying to get the latest gtk libs on the one year old linux suse 9.1 server; it took me a few minutes to install inkscape on xp but i've given up on linux (it needs tons of latest greatest libs that one need to compile and put in the right non-conflicting places so I will try again when i've received suse 9.3); installing fonts in a tex system is easier -) 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------
On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 12:07:35AM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote:
Because i want to post a new context zip with svg support, today i spent the whole day trying to get the latest gtk libs on the one year old linux suse 9.1 server; it took me a few minutes to install inkscape on xp but i've given up on linux (it needs tons of latest greatest libs that one need to compile and put in the right non-conflicting places so I will try again when i've received suse 9.3); installing fonts in a tex system is easier -)
Same experience here with regard to the latest greates glib libraries. I gave up. Paul -- ************************ *Paul Tremblay * *phthenry@iglou.com * ************************
Am 12.04.2005 um 00:07 schrieb Hans Hagen:
Because i want to post a new context zip with svg support
Big news in a half sentence! What does SVG support mean in ConTeXt / this context? Translation of SVG to MetaPost? Which SVG level/standard? Grüßlis vom Hraban! --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://contextgarden.net
Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
Am 12.04.2005 um 00:07 schrieb Hans Hagen:
Because i want to post a new context zip with svg support
Big news in a half sentence! What does SVG support mean in ConTeXt / this context? Translation of SVG to MetaPost? Which SVG level/standard?
i've implemented a mechanism to process graphics 'kind of runtime' so that one can use for instance svg; think of proper caching of converted images, document dependent transformations, etc. For the svg conversion I use inkscape; of course it's all subjected to testing -) 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------
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