Re: Max Chernoff, Bruno, ConTeXt

Hi Dick,

On Thu, 2026-03-19 at 19:02 +0000, Richard Koch wrote:
> So next I bit the bullet. I removed /usr/local/texlive/2026
> and ~/Library/texlive/2026. Then I reinstalled using the
> Unix install script. Luckily this is heavily documented on the
> MacTeX web pages.
>
> This time, the ConTeXt example discussed by Voisin
> and Chernoff worked like a charm. Congratulations!
> Absolutely amazing!

Awesome, glad to hear that it works!

> Making a MacTeX release takes a lot
> of time because it has to be notarized by Apple and then
> uploaded to TUG. So I won't do it until there is clarity
> between Bruno and Chernoff on the syncing issue.
> But if the issue os solely that ConTeXt is using an old
> sync file, maybe that isn't really an issue because we
> have this WORKING method to use ConTeXt sync.
> Please give me some guidance.

I don't personally use SyncTeX, and I suspect that most ConTeXt users
don't either. It would obviously be best if it were working, but I don't
think that it necessarily needs to be a blocker for the MacTeX release.
But I also use a plain text editor and compile everything from the
command line, so I'm probably not the right person to comment on how
important it is :)

> But if the issue os solely that ConTeXt is using an old
> sync file, maybe that isn't really an issue because we
> have this WORKING method to use ConTeXt sync.

I only have Okular and the "synctex" executable installed for testing,
and I can't get either of them to work with ConTeXt (but they both work
with LuaLaTeX). But since you two were able to get ConTeXt working
TeXShop/TeXworks, this suggests that there's something editor-dependent
here, but I don't know enough to know whether it's ConTeXt or my editors
that are faulty. But these recent posts on the ConTeXt mailing list

    https://mailman.ntg.nl/archives/list/[email protected]/message/URJTH64ES43OFEDI4GSUGYRA4ZP3MUB5/

    https://mailman.ntg.nl/archives/list/[email protected]/message/2HZKEF6KGSEPL3MRUAEZ7XDW5TWGYD7Q/

shows that SyncTeX works for at least two other people, so I suspect
that it's my setup that's broken, and not (necessarily) ConTeXt.

Thanks,
-- Max