Context modules not on CATN and not in TeX Live
Hi! I'm trying to learn ConTeXt working through some examples I found on Context Garden and the internet. Since I already have TeX Live 2014 installed I could run most of the examples. When I ran into a problem, I installed the standalone version and compared the supplied modules. The following modules are not part of Context in TeX Live 2014.
Some are on CTAN, some are missing there. Since TeX Live takes the files from CTAN, it would be nice to put the missing modules there. What is the correct way to do that? I ask because I want to give a tutorial about ConTeXt at the Dante meeting in april and it would be nice to tell the audience that everything they need is already part of TeX Live and no extra installation is required. Axel -- Man sollte das mal mit ConTeXt betrachten.
Hi Alex, The simple answer to your question would be to use this page: http://www.ctan.org/upload/ http://www.ctan.org/upload/ BUT, the MISSING modules or packages are so-called third party! It should be the responsibility of the AUTHORS, to upload the to CTAN! Also, e.g cmscbf and cmttbf are no longer needed in mkiv! They are for use with mkii! Furthermore, you should concertrate on using ONLY MKIV! Especially, since your audience seem to be introductory. MKII is frozen and IMHO outdated! I would suggest that you point them to the Standalone stable release, if you actually need the missing third party modules. Hope this helps. regards Keith.
On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 1:40 PM, Keith Schultz wrote:
No, in case of ConTeXt that's not correct. The idea would be to handle everything automatically once the modules are uploaded to modules.contextgarden.net. Some discrepancies are intentional, some are "bugs" (read as: nobody noticed that a module was missing and/or bothered requesting it). I was offline for a while and will explain this later in detail. I just wanted to make sure that nobody starts uploading cmscbf and alike to CTAN.
BUT, the MISSING modules or packages are so-called third party! It should be the responsibility of the AUTHORS, to upload the to CTAN!
No, that's not the case with ConTeXt modules. They are synced automatically.
It's not so much outdated, but it's certainly frozen and certainly not worth spending too much effort in it. (With an exception of occasional support for XeTeX which is still an up-to-date engine.)
I would suggest that you point them to the Standalone stable release, if you actually need the missing third party modules.
No, wait, let's try to clear things up first. If modules should be on CTAN and aren't, I'll add them to CTAN. If modules are on CTAN, but not in TeX Live, we should figure out why they are excluded from TeX Live and either make sure that they are either added to TeX Live (if there are no problems with licencing, packaging etc.) or removed from CTAN (in case they are not really useful). We could keep some modules on CTAN if they are useful, but don't qualify for TL inclusion for some obscure reason. "Don't use TeX Live" could be the proper advice for someone who wants to use the latest version of ConTeXt, but one shouldn't confuse the user just because a module is missing in TL by accident. Mojca
Hi Mojca, Thank you for clarifying a few things. I have not seen any information how to contribute modules to ConTeXt or how they are passed up the stream! A few caveats though! 1) Who „authorizes“ ConTeXt modules for CTAN ? 2) Do not CTAN and TeXLive have pretty much the same guidelines? 3) Who gets to decide what is really „Useful“ ? I did not mean to say do not use TDS! Besides, one can always install the „missing“ modules in the TeXLive tree, if they really want them! regards Keith.
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On 1/26/2015 2:57 PM, Keith J. Schultz wrote:
1 : the ctan maintainers, but in general they accept everything that suits tex and friends (of course it will only accept legally correct items) 2 : i think that texlive has more strict rules with respect to licenses 3 : quality control is not part of the picture nor is maintainance or useability ... i suppose something can end up on ctan that is unuseable, broken and unmaintained ... it's user driven - : for texlive it can make sense to also provide the right information for inclusion and installation and that is what the garden packager does (you cannot expect texlive maintainers to keep track of all that)
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Hi Hans, You misunderstood me. I am aware how CTAN and TeXLive works. Mocja, said HE would do the upload to CTAN. Also, he mentioned that WE could keep some modules kept on CTAN if deemed useful! My question is more about how ConTeXt controls these things or is responsible? regards Keith.
Am 26.01.2015 um 14:03 schrieb Mojca Miklavec
That's what I was hoping.
Two modules that are on CTAN but not on TeX Live are the URW font support files. The fonts are non-commercial thus the support files are not included. The fonts are on CTAN and there is a utility to install them to texmf-local. (Probably not needed for MkIV.)
I prefer the "Everything is already on your computer, let's try it!" approach. Having to install (and maintain) a second system makes it difficult to convince someone to try ConTeXt. Maybe the install instructions on the wiki should be amended for TL 2014. I look into that once the visualcounter is in TeX Live:-) Axel
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