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#REDIRECT Installation is done by the <code>mtx-update.lua</code> which is already part of ConTeXt. If you already have a working installation, you should be able to use it through the generic <code>mtxrun</code>: [[New actually this is a little lie for the moment; even the most recent mtx-update.lua needs to be updated itself in order for the process to work]. mtxrun --script update --platform=<your platform> --engine=<a TeX engine> --texroot=<install dir> --update Platform can be ''win'', ''linux'', ''linux-64'', ''osx-ppc'', ''osx-intel'' or ''sun'' (default: ''win'');engine can be ''pdftex'', ''xetex'', ''luatex'', ''all'', or a comma-separated list of any of those (default: ''all''). If you want to specify a list of engines, you would have to protect it on most shells: <code>--engine='xetex, luatex'</code>, for example. TeX root, obviously, is the location of your installation (the directory where texmf trees like texmf, texmf-local, etc. are to be found), default: ''tex'' (relative to the current directory). Most of the task of <code>mtx-update</code> is to run <code>rsync</code> to synchronize your local installation with the repository. It is assumed that Unix users (including Mac OS X) would have an rsync client installed by default on their system; for Windows an rsync binary is provided as part of the initial setup (see next paragraph). If you ''don't'' have an installed ConTeXt distribution, you must download from http://minimals.contextgarden.net/setup/ the appropriate zip archive for your system, and run the shell / batch script in the top-level directory (which should be called <code>context</code>); it is a very simple script that sets the necessary environment to run mtx-update, and it accepts exactly the same switches as mtx-update. By default it will install a ConTeXt Minimals distribution suitable for pdfTeX on your system; the top-level directory for that distribution will be <code>context/tex</code> until you tell it otherwise (Implementationwith the <code>--texroot</code> switch)]].
Talk:ConTeXt Standalone (view source)
Revision as of 15:27, 6 February 2008
, 15:27, 6 February 2008moved that "little lie" to talk page until it becomes true
