For a while I thought it doesn't make sense for me to add to this
thread, but there appears to be
a complete ignorance among many power ConTeXt users about "abnormal"
ways to
use ConTeXt, and maybe even computers.
I believe that there are keyboard people and mouse people. I myself
am mostly
On Sun, 2008-06-15 at 01:05 +0200, Diego Depaoli wrote:
> Furthermore let me doubt that a simplified installation it's enough to
> persuade new users since ConTeXt requires manuals reading which is
> universally considered a waste of time.
In many cases, the nouveau Linux culture or Win/Mac users
2008/6/14 Mojca Miklavec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> That's not a general solution, but if you need it for yourself, you
> can put the following to some file and execute it whenever you want:
>
> rsync -av rsync://contextgarden.net/minimals/current/context/beta/
> /path/to/your/texmf/
> rsync -av rsync
What could perhaps occur is this:
Get PC-BSD's PBI technology working with something like DarwinPorts or
whatever BSD ports tree exists for the Mac. IIRC, they now have a
relatively automated way of getting from ports to PBI's.
But you would need cooperation, legal protection or licensing for the
Am 2008-06-14 um 19:36 schrieb Thomas A. Schmitz:
> bundle that does just what you like is lilypond. A wonderful
> typesetting application, all in one installer, not complex to install.
> It has been broken on intel mac for half a year now. Nobody has the
> knowledge or the time or the energy to fi
On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 6:35 PM, Jesse Alama wrote:
> "Thomas A. Schmitz" writes:
>
> The basis for my own comments in this thread do not lie in a preference
> for graphical tools, but rather for a straightforward way to stay
> up-to-date with the whole of ConTeXt in a way that ctxtools does not
>
On Jun 14, 2008, at 3:57 PM, Andrea Valle wrote:
> Thomas, I do not know what Oliver is actually doing.
> But just 2c:
> - suppose you have a ConTeXt distro (the minimal) inside a mac app.
> At the end a mac app is typically a folder containing different
> programs/libraries etc
> - suppose y
Hello,
I'm a clarinetist, I used lilypond, realy great tool.
I'm using linux since 10 years, vim is my editor. I'm not a mouse-adict user.
But as Donal Knuth seems to say : I can't act like mathematician, it's
not what I am.
Il like lilypond, and Contex. I like the may they manage to produce
beau
"Thomas A. Schmitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Jun 14, 2008, at 1:07 PM, Oliver Buerschaper wrote:
>
>> Actually, I strongly disagree with the opinion that the only way to
>> properly interact with TeX is via the command line.
>>
>> Counter example: in Mac application development your IDE of
On Friday 13 June 2008 09:52:13 am Andrea Valle wrote:
> Concerning posters (at least that "graphic" category of posters):
>
> If you have to move a graphic element by hand in search of fine
> tuning (which is optical in design, helas, not computational) the
> only way in batch-processing based sw
> Who said that "the only way to properly interact with TeX is via the
> command line"? What I said is: you can provide all the GUI tools you
> want, at some point (and this will be rather sooner than later)
> problems will crop up, and these problems will be impossible to
> resolve if you don't wa
What I said is: you can provide all the GUI tools you
want, at some point (and this will be rather sooner than later)
problems will crop up, and these problems will be impossible to
resolve if you don't want to use the command line, don't want to learn
about PATH settings, don't want to learn abou
On Saturday 14 June 2008 07:07:53 am Oliver Buerschaper wrote:
> Actually, I strongly disagree with the opinion that the only way to
> properly interact with TeX is via the command line.
>
The amount of interaction with TeX in any form is minimal. If it runs
to completion fine, if it stalls one
Actually, I strongly disagree with the opinion that the only way to
properly interact with TeX is via the command line.
In fact you gain a lot when trying to
track down a problem ...
Furthermore, in my humble opinion interaction with TeX should
concentrate on programming the actual typesetti
On Jun 14, 2008, at 1:07 PM, Oliver Buerschaper wrote:
> Actually, I strongly disagree with the opinion that the only way to
> properly interact with TeX is via the command line.
>
> Counter example: in Mac application development your IDE of choice
> will almost certainly be Xcode. Although it d
On Saturday 14 June 2008 03:40:58 am Taco Hoekwater wrote:
> Alan Stone wrote:
> > Wow... this is a good one:
> >
> > Linux Distribution chooser: answer some questions and there you
> > go... http://www.zegeniestudios.net/ldc/
> >
> > Results were *very* close to your suggestions.
>
> That was fun!
>> If if you got it installed, you next will need a GUI for running
>> ConTeXt, and if some problem arises, you are further away from the
>> solution than ever.
>> :-(
>>
>> Sorry, you can't use TeX in a decent way if you can't use a shell
>> (AKA
>> command line AKA Terminal AKA DOS box).
>>
>>
Dne sobota 14. junija 2008 je luigi scarso napisal(a):
> >> Linux Distribution chooser: answer some questions and there you go...
> >> http://www.zegeniestudios.net/ldc/
> >>
> >> Results were *very* close to your suggestions.
> >
> > That was fun! It actually proposed the distro I'm using (Mandriv
>> Linux Distribution chooser: answer some questions and there you go...
>> http://www.zegeniestudios.net/ldc/
>>
>> Results were *very* close to your suggestions.
>
> That was fun! It actually proposed the distro I'm using (Mandriva).
Even for me (I'm using ubuntu)
--
luigi
_
Yue Wang wrote:
> BTW, Hans, why do LuaTeX still needs type1 format of LM fonts? please
> check type-ini.tex. fonts like rm-lmr* can be substitude by opentype
> format instead. Only math typefaces of the type1 font is needed now.
> Maybe this is because the LuaTeX math mode support?
it uses the l
Bart C. Wise wrote:
> Try:
> texexec --make en
just
texexec --make
or
texexec --make en metafun
-
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On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 4:49 AM, Yue Wang wrote:
> Hi.
>
>> Packaging ruby: you only unzip it and set the path.
>> A stripped-down ruby: probably parsing (even if manually) ruby scripts
>> from ConTeXt to determine which packages are needed, and delete the
>> rest of the tree/ruby libraries :)
>>
>
Try:
texexec --make en
Bart
On Friday 13 June 2008 7:54:57 pm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> After updating my system with rsync to get the latest binaries of
> context I got this message:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> texexec --xtx greek_exp.tex
> system : cont-new loaded
> (/home/adsm/texmf
Alan Stone wrote:
> Wow... this is a good one:
>
> Linux Distribution chooser: answer some questions and there you go...
> http://www.zegeniestudios.net/ldc/
>
> Results were *very* close to your suggestions.
That was fun! It actually proposed the distro I'm using (Mandriva).
_
Wow... this is a good one:
Linux Distribution chooser: answer some questions and there you go...
http://www.zegeniestudios.net/ldc/
Results were *very* close to your suggestions.
Alan
On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 8:20 AM, Alan Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Thanks all for kindly posting your pr
On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 3:54 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> After updating my system with rsync to get the latest binaries of
> context I got this message:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> texexec --xtx greek_exp.tex
> system : cont-new loaded
> (/home/adsm/texmf/tex/context/base/cont-new.tex
>
Yue Wang wrote:
>
>
> BTW, Hans, why do LuaTeX still needs type1 format of LM fonts? please
> check type-ini.tex. fonts like rm-lmr* can be substitude by opentype
> format instead. Only math typefaces of the type1 font is needed now.
rm-lm* actually are math fonts. The TFM metrics contain inform
Hi Khaled,
On Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:52:27 -0600, Khaled Hosny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
experimental in the beta
\setcharactermirroring[1]
It does work perfectly with unidirectional texts (RTL or LTR), but when
mixing bi-directional text, like Arabic text between brackets inside
English li
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