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, -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
