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gour
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 Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2003 6:31 am Post subject: ebuild for ConTeXt package |
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Hi!
I am using ConTeXt macro package (part of teTeX) for my writing needs, but since ConTeXt is in constant and rapid development, I'm interested whether some Gentoo users wrote a separate ConTeXt ebuild to just update ConTeXt?
It would be nice to have one to keep the pace (it's a part of Gentoo philosophy).
Sincerely,
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drini
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| Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2003 10:34 pm Post subject: I would like |
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Well.. I still want to do context. A few years ago I tried, there was like only one or two manuals I could find on the web and following their instruction Iattempted to install context.. result wasn't very good (I was usingm iktex tho).
But now I got spare time again...
so I would like to learn context. You say it comes with tetex
so I'm only looking for some nice documents to start with.
And by the way...
what are the changes from tetex 1.x to tetex2? Tetex 2 enteres stable portage a few weeks ago
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gour
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| Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2003 7:55 am Post subject: Re: I would like |
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| Quote: | | Well.. I still want to do context. |
Me too 
| Quote: | | A few years ago I tried, there was like only one or two manuals I could find on the web and following their instruction Iattempted to install context.. result wasn't very good (I was usingm iktex tho). |
Here is the page with some instructions how to install ConTeXt into your
own texmf tree: http://levana.de/context/.
| Quote: | But now I got spare time again...
so I would like to learn context. You say it comes with tetex
so I'm only looking for some nice documents to start with. |
Here is the url with all the available docs:
http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/
I hope it will help you to get started.
| Quote: | And by the way...
what are the changes from tetex 1.x to tetex2? Tetex 2 enteres stable portage a few weeks ago |
I dont' know since I'm still new with Gentoo and have only teTeX 1.x emerged.
However, imho, ConTeXt is really worth to learn since it is, in one sense, what LaTeX 3 should become. All the features are nicely integrated and there are no clashes between different packages like in LaTeX world.
For me, the real buyer was ability to typeset Unicode documents (utf8) encoding.
I write DocBook documents and then convert them with db2context package (available on http://dblatex.sourceforge.net/). Great 
The best is to visit ConTeXt web site http://www.pragma-ade.com/ and there is even portal on http://www.pragma-ade.com:8080/context.
There is also mailing list with lot of help http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context.
Don't hesitate to reply if you need more info.
Sincerely,
Gour |
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drini
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| Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2003 11:40 pm Post subject: I think tetex includes |
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a quick search (with tetex 2)
find /usr/share/texmf -iname "*context*"
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[code]
morfismo root # find /usr/share/texmf -iname "*context*"
/usr/share/texmf/context
/usr/share/texmf/doc/help/Catalogue/entries/context.html
/usr/share/texmf/doc/context
/usr/share/texmf/doc/context/base/context.rme
/usr/share/texmf/doc/polish/context
/usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/context.map
/usr/share/texmf/fonts/tfm/hoekwater/context
/usr/share/texmf/fonts/type1/hoekwater/context
/usr/share/texmf/metapost/context
/usr/share/texmf/pdftex/config/context
/usr/share/texmf/pdftex/config/context/original-context-symbol.map
/usr/share/texmf/tex/context
/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/context.tex
/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/context
/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/context
[/code]
but no executable it seems
also I searched executables installed by tetex:
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qpkg -l "tetex" | grep bin | grep -i cont
[/code]
but return no results. Perhaps the exectuable has a special name (not "context").
By the way, if you have already gentoo, it's easy to upgrade
run "emerge sync" to update your version packages list
then type "emerge -u tetex"
On some setups the compiliong will fail. I solved it reemerging libwww and there are some other solutions around the forums.
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drini
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| Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2003 11:40 pm Post subject: I think tetex includes |
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a quick search (with tetex 2)
find /usr/share/texmf -iname "*context*"
showed among others
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morfismo root # find /usr/share/texmf -iname "*context*"
/usr/share/texmf/context
/usr/share/texmf/doc/help/Catalogue/entries/context.html
/usr/share/texmf/doc/context
/usr/share/texmf/doc/context/base/context.rme
/usr/share/texmf/doc/polish/context
/usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/context.map
/usr/share/texmf/fonts/tfm/hoekwater/context
/usr/share/texmf/fonts/type1/hoekwater/context
/usr/share/texmf/metapost/context
/usr/share/texmf/pdftex/config/context
/usr/share/texmf/pdftex/config/context/original-context-symbol.map
/usr/share/texmf/tex/context
/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/context.tex
/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/context
/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/context
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but no executable it seems
also I searched executables installed by tetex:
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qpkg -l "tetex" | grep bin | grep -i cont
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but return no results. Perhaps the exectuable has a special name (not "context").
By the way, if you have already gentoo, it's easy to upgrade
run "emerge sync" to update your version packages list
then type "emerge -u tetex"
On some setups the compiliong will fail. I solved it reemerging libwww and there are some other solutions around the forums.
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gour
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| Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2003 10:02 am Post subject: |
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| Quote: | but no executable it seems
also I searched executables installed by tetex:
Perhaps the exectuable has a special name (not "context").
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Well, ConTeXt uses pdf(e)tex for processing files, and I usually invoke it
via texexec.pl Perl script, like:
| Code: | | texexec --pdf somefile.tex. |
It is located in
The best is to start reading different documentation in PDF files for which I provided URLs in my previous post.
Sincerely,
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gour
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| Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2003 6:22 am Post subject: |
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| Quote: | I was thinking about the whole context ebuild thing.
If it needs pdftex, it would be hard to split it from tetex package
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Oops .. It looks I misunderstood you 
I was thinking that you have problems running ConTeXT and not trying to
make ebuild.
Well, to have separate ConTeXt ebuild, it has to fetch cont-tmf.zip archive
from the Pragma-Ade site and to the other required things.
So, ConTeXt package does exist separately from the teTeX, so there is no
problem splitting it from the teTeX, but just writing proper ebuild to
incoporate separate cont-tmf.zip archive into present teTeX tree
Sincerely,
Gour |
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