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more caveats on installation
===Installing XeTeX===
The best and easiest way of installing XeTeX on MacOSX is by using Gerben Wierda's [http://www.rna.nl/tex.html i-Installer]. After that, there is currently ([[1 December]] [[2004]]) one configuration file change that you are ''likely '' to need.(If you don't find the configuration line that follows, just jump to [[#Basic Installation|Basic Installation]] on this page!)
XeTeX currently doesn't accept or ignore the <tt>-translate-file</tt> option that Hans has chosen as a default for normal ConTeXt operation. I haven't figured out how to run different "profiles" or configurations within my current installation, so I just edited the following line in <tt>/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/context/config/[[texexec.ini]]</tt> (or wherever <tt>texexec</tt> finds its configuration file) from:
for tetex set TeXPassString to -progname=context
I believe that's all that's necessary to change from the default or commonly recommended settings. I run ConTeXt with both pdfetex and XeTeX under this configuration, and it seems to work well enough (except for a minor warning in pdfTeX).
====Basic Installation====
After XeTeX being installed and ConTeXt being updated, you should make a format with <tt>texexec</tt>:
texexec --make --xtx en
