On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 12:38 PM, frantisek holop <[email protected]> wrote: > anyway, i am fine with a "monolithic" texlive package, i am > sure it was difficult to put it together as it is (good > job Edd).
I have to admit first that due to the nature of my work I have to use LaTeX and plain TeX. I know that ConTeXt is undergoing rapid development and that if you ara involved in that process you might have a need to use something on the cutting edge. I have couple questions for you. 1. Is there are relatively painless way to updated just certain fonts and components of TeXLive as it is the case with MikTeX. I know that the answer to that question used to be NO but that was before. Even if the answer is to previous question is NO you probably could get a way with installing texlive-base, a few other dependences, and fonts that you use. You would then just hush TeX tree and you should be able to go. You can check the minimal ConTeXt dependences from this Debian web-site http://packages.debian.org/etch/texlive-context Now look also this Wiki article from TeXLive web-page http://wiki.contextgarden.net/TeX_Live "TeXLive in principle offers no option to update between release cycles. But of course, you will want to update ConTeXt as soon as Hans releases a new version. This is easy to achieve: the installation process has created a skeleton directory /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local. It is empty right after installation. cd to this directory, download the latest cont-tmf.zip from the pragma website. Then unzip this archive and run texexec --make --all again. This will update your installation and the formats to the latest available version. When you want to update again later, simply repeat the process, overwriting all older files when unzipping." 2. Are you sure that you have to install TeXLive to begin with? I have heard that lots of people who use ConTeXt have alternative method of installing ConTeXt to Unix. I would check these documents http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Installation and in particular http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_Minimals Best, Predrag
