On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 08:44:34PM -0500, George Avrunin wrote:
On Thu, 7 Mar 2013 18:47:52 +0000, Tethys wrote:
> I tried various
> other options and ended up with ConTeXt, which I'm generally pretty
> happy with. Except that it doesn't work on F17. At all. And yes, I do
> mind migrating. For new projects, it's not so bad. But for already
> published books, if I want to do a second printing, I want to correct
> a few typos, run make and have a fully typeset PDF that I can send off
> the the printers. I can't currently do that, and retypesetting the
> whole thing in an alternative tool simply isn't a viable option.
>
> Tet
>
Have you tried installing TeX Live directly from CTAN (e.g., download
install-tl-unx.tar.gz and perhaps update regularly using tlmgr)? If
there's a problem with the F17 version, it's possible that the actual TeX
Live 2012, updated from CTAN, would solve it. I don't use ConTeXt (and
I'm on F18 now), so I can't say anything about that. But on F17 I used
TeX Live from CTAN, not the Fedora rpms, and everything I use worked
fine. (I haven't had any problems with the one from the rpms on F18 yet
either, but ...)
I will second the TeXLive distribution from CTAN. I have been using it
since TeXLive 2010, and it has always behaved reliably. I do not have
any ConTeXt document that I can typeset, but I can run the binary.
$ context --version
mtx-context | ConTeXt Process Management 0.52
mtx-context |
mtx-context | main context file:
/opt/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/context.mkiv
mtx-context | current version: 2012.05.30 11:26
Hope this helps,
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