texlive

[Suvayu Ali]

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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Suvayu

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