[NTG-context] i-Installer / minimal TeX installation for ConTeXt?

Idris Samawi Hamid ishamid at colostate.edu
Wed Jan 11 06:16:43 CET 2006


On Tue, 10 Jan 2006 17:00:19 -0700, Gerben Wierda <Gerben.Wierda at rna.nl>  
wrote:

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

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