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* If you have a broad bandwith internet connection, use Gerben Wierda's iInstaller to install the latest TeXlive tree and (afterwards) the latest ConTeXt beta.
* You can also buy a TeXlive DVD.
==Configuration of texmfstart==
Versions of ConTeXt later than April 2006, use a new Ruby script (set up by Hans Hagen and Taco Hoekwater) called texmfstart.rb which has to be configured properly. Actually it is still possible to use the "old" script based on Perl, but for instance when one says
texexec example.tex
in order to typeset the file example.tex, you'll see in the log file a warning like
warning: use 'texmfstart texexec' instead
Since ConTeXt is developing very fast, it is likely that one day or another the "old" script would become orphan. (Recall that according to some theoretician physicists the velocity of ConTeXt development is a counter-example to the fact that the velocity of light is an upper limit for all velocities...). Since I (i.e. Otared K.) and many other Mac users had difficulties to do this, thanks to help and insights from Mojca M. and Taco H. I explain below how I did configure texmfstart on my machine. To be more precise, I should say that I have teTeX and ConTeXt installed (and updated quite often...) with Gerben Wierda's i-Installer. Actually in what follows nothing is specific to Mac OS X: it is very likely that on any Unix like system texmfstart can be configured in the same way.
* In principle on your computer there is a directory (or folder...) named
/usr/local/teTeX/bin/
if, as it is very likely, you have installed TeX in /usr/local. Otherwise with the command
locate /teTeX/bin/
in a Terminal window find the directory teTeX/bin/. In this directory there should be a subdirectory named
powerpc-apple-darwin7.9.0
or something like that (depending on the type of the processor you have). Go there with the command cd (change directory): for instance in my case I would say:
cd powerpc-apple-darwin7.9.0
or even if you know already the path to this directory you can say
cd /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin7.9.0/
* Find the path to the file "texmfstart.rb" (which has been installed during your TeX and ConTeXt installation): in the Terminal window type
locate texmfstart.rb
It may happen that several such files exist. For instance on my system I have two "texmfstart.rb",
/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/scripts/context/ruby/texmfstart.rb
/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/scripts/context/ruby/texmfstart.rb
the second one is old, while the first one is recent and has been installed by Gerben's i-Installer. I assumed (remember we are using ConTeXt...) that the newer one is the right one...
* In the Terminal window (while you are in the directory powerpc-apple-darwin7.9.0) type:
sudo emacs texmfstart
and after giving an su (super user) password, in the editor's window type the following code (given by Taco H.), that is the two following lines:
#!/bin/sh
ruby /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/scripts/context/ruby/texmfstart.rb $@
This means that using the "shell sh" we create a new command executed with ruby (the last "$@" is a placeholder which is replaced by an argument when texmfstart is executed).
Indeed you can create a file named texmfstart with any text editor provided you manage to put (or copy) it in the above mentioned directory powerpc-apple-darwin7.9.0.
* Save and exit emacs by typing
[CTRL]-X [CTRL]-S
and then
[CTRL]-X [CTRL]-C
* At this point we have created a script named texmfstart... Now we have to make it executable, so in the Terminal window (while you are in the
directory powerpc-apple-darwin7.9.0) type
sudo chmod +x texmfstart
("chmod" stands for change mode, "+x" means add the executable bit to the file texmfstart).
* Now if in any (other) Terminal window you type, for instance
texmfstart
or
texmfstart --version
you should get the version of texmfstart and a series of example usage (more or less cryptic to the non specialist...).
* If you go to a directory where you have a file named for instance example.tex, then you can typeset it with ConTeXt by saying:
texmfstart texexec example.tex
and now you shouldn't have the "warning: use 'texmfstart texexec' instead". Indeed you can make several variation on the above command by giving it more "switches" and optional arguments.
And you are done!
==MacOS 9 (Classic)==
