garden's vs. pragma's minimals
On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 9:44 AM, Alan Stone wrote:
Thanks for your extensive comments Aditya. It's (finally) *much* clearer now.
Now you have two options: Either isolate minimal context from the one provided by the distribution, or make them co-exist. Isolating them is easy, the minimals even come with a script "setuptex" which does that. So, you just source setuptex before running context. If you want minimals and distribution tex to coexits, things are a bit tricky. You need to understand how the tex distribution works, which is an intangled (for the want of a better word) mess.
I'll take the isolation option then.
A question about the minimals...
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_Minimals mentions "The Minimals are an attempt to provide the same functionality as the current Pragma's minimal ConTeXt distributions in the zip files."
What's the difference (in provided functionalities) between the contextgarden minimals and the pragma ones ?
The binaries at PRAGMA haven't been updated since August, and you can only update ConTeXt using "download, unzip" approach, which makes you download the whole zip (independent of how much has changed), and doesn't update binaries. With minimals on the garden, only a single file will be updated in case that a single file has changed (rsync rules!!!). Minimals might have some files (fonts, binaries) missing (but feel free to request them) + standalone environment missing as well. Mojca
Thanks Mojca. Have a nice weekend, Alan On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 5:31 PM, Mojca Miklavec < mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks for your extensive comments Aditya. It's (finally) *much* clearer now.
Now you have two options: Either isolate minimal context from the one provided by the distribution, or make them co-exist. Isolating them is easy, the minimals even come with a script "setuptex" which does that. So, you just source setuptex before running context. If you want minimals and distribution tex to coexits, things are a bit tricky. You need to understand how the tex distribution works, which is an intangled (for
On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 9:44 AM, Alan Stone wrote: the
want of a better word) mess.
I'll take the isolation option then.
A question about the minimals...
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_Minimals mentions "The Minimals are an attempt to provide the same functionality as the current Pragma's minimal ConTeXt distributions in the zip files."
What's the difference (in provided functionalities) between the contextgarden minimals and the pragma ones ?
The binaries at PRAGMA haven't been updated since August, and you can only update ConTeXt using "download, unzip" approach, which makes you download the whole zip (independent of how much has changed), and doesn't update binaries. With minimals on the garden, only a single file will be updated in case that a single file has changed (rsync rules!!!).
Minimals might have some files (fonts, binaries) missing (but feel free to request them) + standalone environment missing as well.
Mojca
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