On May 2, 2008, at 10:36 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I see... > I cringe so much of
Don't. We've all been beginners once and needed help. You just need to learn to follow a systematic approach and read replies to your questions more carefully... >> Oh boy. This is really not the place where your personal additions to >> your TeX installation should go. > > Please, where is the right place? That was indicated in my reply to your first question; quoting myself: I would advise, however, to install additional packages either to the local texmf tree or to you personal tree. These are defined in the file /etc/ texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf as TEXMFLOCAL = /usr/local/share/texmf and TEXMFHOME = $HOME/TEXMF The point is: when SuSE installs a new version of texlive, it will simply overwrite your files (even if you have edited them) or delete the old directories. Moreover, if you make a mistake here, you can simply erase the directory and start over. That's why it is considered good practice to keep ths distribution files and your local/personal additions separate. > > Right. My Context is from 2007. The point is that I am so clumsy about > installing something on OpenSuse/Linux (I have a Windows machine using > MikTex, suppose that doesn't help) that I do it always on line with a > repo. Download and install rpm packages (or other files) rarely turns > out to be good. But anyway I have tried to install according to the > recipe I found on wiki > (http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Linux_User_Installation). Didn't > manage. If you have no other suggestion I can try again and post the > result. > OK, there are several problems here: 1. SuSE's texlive installation has some problems, esp. when you try to use luatex; 2. the latest ConTeXt release will also need the latest latin modern fonts, which (I guess) are not available as a package for SuSE yet. 3. This being said, it is entirely possible to update ConTeXt within your SuSE texlive installation (I have been doing this for several years now). - create directory /usr/local/share/texmf - cd /usr/local/share/texmf - sudo wget http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/current/cont-tmf.zip - sudo unzip cont-tmf.zip - sudo texhash - sudo texexec --make --all --pdftex - sudo texexec --make --all --xtx >> Which manual says >> that ConTeXt expects pure ASCII input? > > This one: mp-cb-en.pdf. Quoting from page 1: > > "CONTEXT expects a plain ASCII input file. Of course you can use any > texteditor or wordprocessor > you want, but you should not forget that CONTEXT can only read ASCII > input. Most > texteditors or wordprocessors can export your file as plain ASCII." > OK, you're right. This is really obsolete (and has been so for several years). We've been collecting such things for a while now, but this is seriously misleading. Hans, any chance of regenerating the m*-cb-en.pdfs and taking this paragraph out? Thomas ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________
