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The stand-alone ConTeXt MikTeX is much better great tool for people typsetting in LaTeX. Updating the way that it is always up-to-date, the environment packages is set up properly easy and some special functionality that doesn't work in MikTeX should work here as expected. The only drawbacks (although I don't really dare to call them drawbacks) packages are that downloaded automatically if you have to have some other distribution working in parallel need them. Recently support for ConTeXt has been improved, but if you need LaTeX as well and that the installation and updates are not automatic latest version of ConTeXt, you have to update it manually (though still straightforward<code>ctxtools --update</code>).
You can use both MikTeX and the The stand-alone distrConTeXt is much better in the way that it is always up-to-date, the environment is set up properly and some special functionality that doesn't work in MikTeX should work here as expected. simultaneously thoughThe only drawback (although I don't really dare to call it a drawback) is that you have to have some other distribution working in parallel if you need LaTeX as well.
* <i>(Notes about texmfstart were removed since texmfstart is now part of MikTeXt.)</i>
→Which ConTeXt distribution to choose?: some minor notes about MikTeX have been changed
= Which ConTeXt distribution to choose? =
You can use both MikTeX is great tool for people typsetting in LaTeX. Updating the packages is easy and packages are downloaded automatically if you need them. But on the other hand it's not adapted for ConTeXt well enough. ConTeXt is working in MikTeX 2.4 (and with some manual changes in 2stand-alone distr.5 as well), but some new features aren't and the new updates are sometimes really way behind the timesimultaneously.
There's another (not so popular) TeX distribution, [http://www.fsci.fuk.kindai.ac.jp/kakuto/win32-ptex/web2c75-e.html W32TeX] which is probably the only one so far which includes [[XeTeX]]. See [[Windows Installation#XeTeX Installation|XeTeX Installation]] to figure out how to install XeTeX on top of standalone distribution. MikTeX is planning to add support for [[XeTeX]] in version [http://www.miktex.org/2.7 2.7].
I never tried XEmTeX and TeX Live. If anyone is willing to share the experince with other users, you're wellcome to do so.
* http://www.tug.org/protext/ (MikTeX-based distribution, includes TeXnicCenter, GhostScript and WinEdt)
MikTeX is probably the easiest and most recommended solution for newbies or for those who have already been using LaTeX and don't want to install anything else. MikTeX is very user-friendly, updating is very easy, missing fonts or third-party modules are installed automatically when you first use them.
However, some more experienced users may not always be happy with it:
* using fonts doesn't always work as expected (or at least different than in the stand-alone distribution)
* ConTeXt format is usually recent, but not always the latest
* [[XeTeX]] doesn't work yet with ityet <font color="red">ConTeXt is not working under MikTeX 2.4 any more (please upgrade to the latest MikTeX).</font>
=== MikTeX packages that you need ===
=== Additional steps ===
* If you get error messages like these:
(C:\Programs\MikTeX\tex\context\base\pdfr-ec.tex) [1.1{original-empty.map}{lm-t
Exclude when updating: [unchecked]
After ''Apply''-ing and ''Build''-ing, ''Refresh'' & ''Update'' as described above. This is the MikTeX way for doing <code>texexec --make --en</code>. The latter has no influence since MikTeX doesn't set any system variables and consequently ConTeXt doesn't know where to leave the created formats.
=== Additional settings (for those who use MetaFun) ===
'''MikTeX 2.4'''
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Create a file <code>[localtexmf PATH]\miktex\config\miktex.ini</code> and add the following line to it:
