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→Which ConTeXt distribution to choose?: XeTeX installation
You can use both MikTeX and the stand-alone distr. simultaneously though.
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]]. Comes with the latest ConTeXt as wellSee [[Windows Installation#XeTeX Installation|XeTeX Installation]] to figure out how to install XeTeX on top of standalone distribution.
I don't know never tried XEmTeXand TeX Live. If anyone is willing to share the experince with other users, you're wellcome to do so.
== Stand-alone ConTeXt distribution ==
{{todo|can someone with any experience write something about it?}}
== XeTeX Installation ==
(Until Hans decides to apply that to the <b>standalone distribution</b>, this notes might be of interest for those who want to use XeTeX under Windows.)
* Download ftp://akagi.ms.u-tokyo.ac.jp/pub/TeX/win32/xetex-w32.tar.bz2
* Unpack it. <i>(The easiest way might be with Total Commander; you need a plugin for it, available on the official website)</i>
* Copy the content of <code>bin</code> into <code>texmf-mswin/bin</code> <i>(copy just the missing files, or simply overwrite the others)</i>
* Copy the content of <code>share/texmf</code> to <code>texmf</code>. If you really mind, you can delete the following before copying (but it's not necessary):
** <code>tex/xetex/xelatex</code>
** <code>tex/xetex/generic/hyphen</code>
** <code>tex/xetex/generic/ifxetex</code>
** <code>web2c/xetex/xe[la]tex.fmt</code>
** (<code>doc</code> in case you don't need it)
* <code>web2c/xetex/xetex.pool</code> should go to <code>texmf-mswin/web2c/</code>
=== Building the formats ===
At the first time and when you update ConTeXt, you have to run the following command from console:
texexec --xtx --make --all
=== Using XeTeX ===
You can then compile your document using
texexec --xtx filename
=== Setting up fontconfig ===
* Open <code>setuptex.bat</code> and add the following three lines <i>(here they're surrounded by the best place where they should be put)</i>:
set HOMETEXMF=
set FONTCONFIG_FILE=fonts.conf
set FONTCONFIG_PATH=%TEXMFMAIN%\fonts\conf
set PKGCACHEDIR=%TEXMFMAIN%\fonts\cache
if not "%CTXDEVTXPATH%"=="" SET CTXDEVTXPATH=
* To use fonts that are not installed on the system you should add something like this to <code>C:\Programs\context\usr\local\context\texmf\fonts\conf\fonts.conf</code>:
<dir>c:/Programs/context/usr/local/context/texmf/fonts/opentype/public/lm</dir>
* For the first time and every time when you install a new font that you want to use with XeTeX, issue:
fc-cache -f -v
* To get a list of the available fonts use:
fc-list > list.txt
= Required and Useful Tools =
