hmm, on Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 11:59:04AM +0100, Edd Barrett said that > Yes, well thats down to the way I have packaged it. I was under the > impression that context was based upon some other tex engine. If you > really want I can try separating it out.
context is primarily pdftex based (but can be used with xetex and luatex) try downloading a recent zip (http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/current/cont-tmf.zip) for a file list but it includes documentation and fonts and font mappings as well. > I had a probelm when including graphics into context last year > "convert: command not found". I cant find my post on the context list > unfortunatly. If you are a context user, please go ahead and try and > report back :) i will have a look, but context uses pdftex's graphic facilities which in turn use libpng and friends, i doubt this. i cannot say for sure at the moment. > TL-2008 has a network installer, I did consider harnessing it, but > opted not to. > > No-one says you *have* to use the packages/ports. Go get the network > installer and install exactly which subset you want. The binaries > installed in this way work on OpenBSD-4.3/i386 only (I make the > binaries that go on the TeX Live CDROM and thats what I built em on). > We are not like solaris where a binary will work for 10 years in the > future. maybe if you compile them statically :] > Also note that there are MikTeX tools for UNIX, but I have not tried > them. If I didnt have so much uni junk coming up I would have a look > at this. thanks for the heads up. as i am a context-only user some kind of network installer would be more than nice. please note that a context only port might be on the way: context people are tackling this bloat problem on their own: with a self-contained "minimal" context installation. -f -- what a day may bring, a day may take away.
