On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 09:57:32PM +0100, Jonas Stein wrote: > >> In that case one should better run mtxrun instead of luatools (they > >> are equivalent at the moment, but luatools is becomming obsolete). > > > > Ahhh ... I guess that needs some divine inspiration to know ... > > > >> And yes, texmfcnf.lua should be carefully designed to match the > >> structure of texmf trees in debian. > > > > Of course, looking into it I graasped that now. > > > > Why on earth can mtxrun not simply load the main texmf.cnf like > > any other program in the TeX world and initialize the values from > > there I ask myself. > > > > I am slowly giving up on ConTeXt. It is changing in arbitrary directions > > far too often, and still things like multi-user support are not > > here since ages. I know, it is primary Hans' system and it has to > > work primarily on his computer, but that means that distributing > > it within any distribution system is plain pain :-( > > > > All that of course relates only to MkIV. I guess I will just add > > one sentence to the README.Debian: > > MkIV is not suppored on Debian. If you know how to set it > > up you can do it yourself and educate the maintainer, > > otherwise simply use MkII or the ConTeXt minimals. > > Its so sad to read this but no other reply on this thread till now. > As far i have looked into the .deb packages the bug should be in the > current stable versions too. > > The ideas behind context are so nice and could save us from so > much latex-pain. If there are no context-packages, that work > out of the box it will be a project for developers. > Developers are known to code and not to write documentation...
Use MkII it is tried, documented and stable. It is unfair to complain about something as " changing in arbitrary directions" when it is declared "beta" and "ever evolving" with big red letters every where :) > Is there any hope that context will become a replacement of latex? I don't think this have been a goal. Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
