Idris Samawi Hamid wrote:

On Mon, 09 Jan 2006 12:23:17 -0700, David Wooten wrote:

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Greetings all,

By and by I've found that I am only using ConTeXt for my typesetting needs. I am curious as to whether someone can advise me how best to install a suitable yet minimal TeX installation: without LaTeX, etc. I am currently using Gerben's very helpful i-Installer.

Perhaps it would vary too much between users to say definitively?

Such a distro exists for windows. Someone would have to take responsibility for a Mac setup, and I suppose that's one reason why Hans has not (yet) a similar package for Mac (or Linix)

a minimal is: - the smallest complete context tree possible (lots of fonts) - platform related binaries (minimal trees can be used (and are faster than the distributed big ones) and i myself prefer such small trees in server processes) i do generate them for all platforms that i run into but i must admit that i don't keep the mac binaries as up to date as needed; the reason is that Gerben keeps his installer very up to date, so for the average tex user on the mac a minimal tree is mainly a reference tree; the best person to ask hwo to do a latexless install on the mac is Gerben Hans

On Tue, 10 Jan 2006 17:00:19 -0700, Gerben Wierda wrote:

On Jan 10, 2006, at 21:22, Idris Samawi Hamid wrote:

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By and by I've found that I am only using ConTeXt for my typesetting needs. I am curious as to whether someone can advise me how best to install a suitable yet minimal TeX installation: without LaTeX, etc. I am currently using Gerben's very helpful i-Installer.

If someone can tell me which part of my redistro should stay, I can easily rearrange matters such that such a minimal install is possible.

In addition to Hans' comments, I would suggest just taking the independent windows package http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/install/mswincontext.zip and replacing the windows-specific stuff (e.g. batch files and executables) with osx stuff. That should do it! 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/