On Dec 21, 2007 9:17 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote:

Create $HOME/texmf. Download justtex.zip, and cont-tmf.zip, cont-fnt.zip from pragma's website, and unzip them inside $HOME/texmf. Download the font files from TeX Gyre and unzip then in $HOME/texmf.

Do I need to set the TEXMFHOME environment variable? Also: will downloading linuxtex.zip to the same place give me up-to-date luatex, or will it just mess up my installation?

Remake the formats, move the stubs and few programs to the path, and you are done.

Is there a command to remake the pdftex and xetex formats together? Rather than moving programs, might it be easier to add ~/texmf/<whatever>/bin to the PATH?

The only drawback of this is that you have to update manually. ctxtools --updatecontext unzip the file in TEXMFLOCAL, and not TEXMFHOME, so it does not work with this setup.

Hmm... will the rsync update work, or do I need to download the zips? Thanks for the suggestion; I'll report back on what works. --Joel

I'm trying to put everything together so potential problems are easily identifiable, and so that a recipe or shell script can perhaps be put on the wiki. On Dec 23, 2007 5:08 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote:

Also, if you already have a working TeX distribution, you can write a few rsync calls yourself. At http://minimals.contextgarden.net/current/ you have: - current ConTeXt - almost-latest binaries - fonts any you can combine the stuff from there in some arbitrary way.

So, since I have a working TeX from Ubuntu, I want to put all the "new" stuff in my TEXMFHOME (A.K.A. ~/texmf). To this end, I could use some help putting the rsync calls together. In each case the command will take the form "rsync --recursive --perms --compress --checksum --times --links --verbose rsync://<something>/ ~/texmf/<somewhere>", which I'll abbreviate in this email as "rsync -rvzctlp rs://cg.net/minimals/current/... ~/texmf/..." (so lines don't get broken at inconvenient times). The basic ConTeXt stuff gets pulled in, as Mojca suggested, thus: rsync -rvzctlp rs://cg.net/minimals/current/context/current/ ~/texmf/ Next, I want to get the up-to-date binaries, for which I'd like to do something like rsync -rvzctlp rs://cg.net/minimals/current/bin/[*]/linux/ ~/texmf/ where I either need to write a separate line for each of {common, context, luatex, metapost, pdftex, xetex}, or have a single command that includes them all. (Since I intend to put this all in a shell script, a bit of duplication isn't a problem.) This will put "/current/bin/[package]/[system]/bin/[whatever]" into "~/texmf/bin/", where I think they belong in an installed system. The manuals seem to be in a somewhat odd place (under bin!); I'd use rsync -rvzctlp rs://cg.net/minimals/current/bin/man/ ~/texmf/ but no programs should care where they are; this is my own use. In fact, perhaps I should put the man pages where the man system can find them. I'll leave this for another day. NB: I have no idea whether I need the stuff in "/current/base" or "/current/misc", nor where in the texmf tree they would go. I won't be installing any modules now, so I can ignore that part of the tree. The fonts are, like the binaries, in a "/current/fonts/[group]/fonts/[format]/..." tree, and the installed system should have them in "~/texmf/fonts/[format]/...", so I need another four lines of the sort rsync -rvzctlp rs://cg.net/minimals/current/fonts/[*]/ ~/texmf/ where [*] is one of {common, new, old, other}. (Are there any I really don't need or want?) I add ~/texmf/bin to the front of my PATH. And then I follow all that up with a rebuilding of the format files with texexec -- make --all texexec -- make --all --xtx texexec -- make --all --lua (Will the formats be made in TEXMFHOME or somewhere else?) If this passes the sanity check with you guys, and if I can get answers to the stuff I'm unsure on, I'll try it & report back. --Joel

Hello all, I used Context to write an entire novel in 2005 (under Fedora linux). Since then I didn't do any work in Context until now. I am now coming back to write a second book (under Ubuntu this time), and found myself totally confused with all this new business of luatex, mkii, mkiv, installation, etc. This set of messages touches many of those issues, but it is not organized in such a way that I can follow a step-by-step procedure to use the latest Context. I even question whether I need to use luatex. Could any of the Context gurus give me an advice or provide a document to update my Context in ubuntu? Thank you Ciro -- Have you read THE GUITAR MAKER ? Check it out: http://www.TheGuitarMakerExploration.com On Dec 26, 2007 6:14 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote:

On Dec 26, 2007 1:56 AM, Joel C. Salomon wrote:

...

I'm trying to put everything together so potential problems are easily identifiable, and so that a recipe or shell script can perhaps be put on the wiki.

On Dec 23, 2007 5:08 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote:

...

Also, if you already have a working TeX distribution, you can write a few rsync calls yourself. At http://minimals.contextgarden.net/current/ you have: - current ConTeXt - almost-latest binaries - fonts any you can combine the stuff from there in some arbitrary way.

So, since I have a working TeX from Ubuntu, I want to put all the "new" stuff in my TEXMFHOME (A.K.A. ~/texmf). To this end, I could use some help putting the rsync calls together.

That's OK, but I would neverthelees suggest you to put the files under TEXMFLOCAL, since TEXMFHOME is usually searched recursively for files and thus much slower (well, it depends on texmf.cnf).

(One question though: doesn't Ubuntu provide pretty recent files already, or is that only in unstable versions?)

...

In each case the command will take the form "rsync --recursive --perms --compress --checksum --times --links --verbose rsync://<something>/ ~/texmf/<somewhere>", which I'll abbreviate in this email as "rsync -rvzctlp rs://cg.net/minimals/current/... ~/texmf/..." (so lines don't get broken at inconvenient times).

The basic ConTeXt stuff gets pulled in, as Mojca suggested, thus: rsync -rvzctlp rs://cg.net/minimals/current/context/current/ ~/texmf/

That's OK.

...

Next, I want to get the up-to-date binaries, for which I'd like to do something like rsync -rvzctlp rs://cg.net/minimals/current/bin/[*]/linux/ ~/texmf/ where I either need to write a separate line for each of {common, context, luatex, metapost, pdftex, xetex}, or have a single command that includes them all.

common is taken from TeXLive, so you prabably don't need it. context are usually one-liners + mtxrun & texmfstart (the latter two might be needed).

rsync -rvzctlp rsync://contextgarden.net'/minimals/current/bin/xetex/linux/bin/ minimals/current/bin/pdftex/linux/bin/ minimals/current/bin/metapost/linux/bin/ minimals/current/bin/luatex/linux/bin/' x

Where the only requirement is to have x in PATH before TeXLive binaries.

(Note that the trailing slash makes the difference.) Once upon a time you would also need xetex.pool, metapost.mem, pdftex.pool, but they're gone now :) (you may remove "bin" in the lines above)

If you make a single call, it will be faster.

...

(Since I intend to put this all in a shell script, a bit of duplication isn't a problem.) This will put "/current/bin/[package]/[system]/bin/[whatever]" into "~/texmf/bin/", where I think they belong in an installed system.

The location is up to you. Just make sure it's in PATH.

...

The manuals seem to be in a somewhat odd place (under bin!);

These are not the manuals, but man pages (OK, that's documentation indeed, but the important thing is to place them parallel to bin in order to make them work).

I have texmf-osx-intel/bin/ [xetex, pdftex, ...] texmf-osx-intel/man/man1/ [man pages]

...

I'd use rsync -rvzctlp rs://cg.net/minimals/current/bin/man/ ~/texmf/

That should work if you have the binaries in ~/texmf/bin

...

but no programs should care where they are; this is my own use. In fact, perhaps I should put the man pages where the man system can find them. I'll leave this for another day.

NB: I have no idea whether I need the stuff in "/current/base" or "/current/misc", nor where in the texmf tree they would go.

No, you don't need that. You have it already.

Now, concerning fonts [IMPORTANT]: I would really really love to split them somehow since they're huge (there's only TeX Gyre, LM, Antykwa & some AMS, but they still take quite some space), but I have no idea how. Hans has suggestes some non-TDS compliant way. Any ideas wellcome. The *important* warning means: things (locations) may change concerning fonts in the future.

...

The fonts are, like the binaries, in a "/current/fonts/[group]/fonts/[format]/..." tree, and the installed system should have them in "~/texmf/fonts/[format]/...", so I need another four lines of the sort rsync -rvzctlp rs://cg.net/minimals/current/fonts/[*]/ ~/texmf/ where [*] is one of {common, new, old, other}. (Are there any I really don't need or want?)

You probably don't need "other" (these are times & platino math fonts).

new: OpenType (for XeTeX and LuaTeX) old: metrics/encodings/maps for pdfTeX common: mostly math-related metrics/encodings/maps + AMS fonts

It depends. If you already have fonts on your system and if you don't need TeX Gyre, you don't need to fetch any fonts at all. You can follow the pattern mentioned above to fetch all the fonts at once.

...

I add ~/texmf/bin to the front of my PATH.

OK.

...

And then I follow all that up with a rebuilding of the format files with texexec -- make --all texexec -- make --all --xtx texexec -- make --all --lua (Will the formats be made in TEXMFHOME or somewhere else?)

They're usually made in TEXMFLOCAL. But I guess that you also have some command on ubuntu which does that.

...

If this passes the sanity check with you guys, and if I can get answers to the stuff I'm unsure on, I'll try it & report back.

LuaTeX might need some additionas variables, but well ... ask in case of problems.

Majca

___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki!

maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________

On Wed, 26 Dec 2007, Mojca Miklavec wrote:

(One question though: doesn't Ubuntu provide pretty recent files already, or is that only in unstable versions?)

Ubuntu 7.10 ships with context 2007.04.17. For me that is not recent enough. Aditya