On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, Maurice Diamantini wrote:
> > Le 10 déc. 03, à 11:39, Patrick Gundlach a écrit : > > > Bob Kerstetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> ... that a user like me with no root access > >> might encounter to get the system to run. In short, someone who can > >> lead me in small steps through the installation process." > >> > >> Do such instructions already exist? Or, if someone can provide that > >> type of help, please contact me offlist and I'll put y'all together. > > > > I have put some instructions at http://levana.de/context/ I could > > help with installation steps. > > I think Hans provided a limited version for a context standalone > distribution. > But I had problem for install it (whith perl) so I give up. > > Also the standard tetex distribution provided with fink (on MacOSX-10.3) > did'n work for me (some itemize bug), and I had to install the texlive > distribution. > > The texlive is very nice because it is complete. But it is very heavy > (only the demo version old on a single CD-ROM : the full texlive > take 1.2 Go and need a DVD !) > I don't have the distribution in the hand, but i think the full texlive is in a DVD, beacause in the same DVD there is a copy of CTAN. I think a runing copy of TeXLive can be extracted from this DVD to a CD-ROM ( or two) > Because it contains all old stuff that any LaTeX/TeX distribution should > contain to be compatible with every TeX based document from the > last few decade ;-) > - every package which was ever able to do multicols > - every package which allows to do clever table > - every package which allows to do verbatim, ... > > But ConTeXt is an independant, modern TeX based distribution (even if > it don't (yet) know about simple html :-). > > So was do we need to be able to switch from LaTeX to ConTeXt? > - a simple standard tetex distib for our old LaTeX document > - a standalone ConTeXt distribution similar to the texlive > in the idea > > This ConTeXt-live should be multiplatform and contain: > - all uptodate reference doc about ConTeXt tools > - all available exemples or model documents > - all contrib extention (m-bib, math, ...) > - the TeX/Metapost and perl distribution. > - all tools (xml, html, ....) > > This could be distibute as iso image and could be > use as simple (no privilege) user. > > This would also make much easier to give acces to context to > beginer (without the need of texmf experience). > > I'm a ConTeXt beginer, but i think that texmf is necesary, expecially for fonts, isn't it? > Also, what is missing for ConTeXt versus LaTeX > 1 - some good LaTeX class emulation > (a simple "table of content" is uggli in ConTeXt) > 2 - some exemples for writing mathemaics using the new Giuseppe > math packages > 3 - some mean to write xml or html FROM ConTeXt (and NOT the reverse!) > 3 - some package or binding to Lilypond (for writing music/midi and xml) > 4 - ... > chears, Zunbeltz _______________________________________________ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
