Re[2]: Problem installing context with miktex

Re[2]: Problem installing context with miktex

[Luis A. Apiolaza]

Hi Hans,

Yes, I copied texexec.rme into texexec.rme after making a few
modifications in the file, namely setting the program to use miktex
and setting a few paths.

My tex installation tree looks like: d:\tex\texmf\... and
d:\tex\localtexmf\...

When I run texexec --verbose I get:

TeXExec 2.5 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2001

locating ini file : kpsewhich not found in path
locating ini file : found by searching
reading : .\texexec.ini
setting : 'TeXShell' to 'miktex' for 'all'
setting : 'UsedInterfaces' to 'en nl de uk' for 'all'
setting : 'UserInterface' to 'en' for 'all'
setting : 'TeXExecutable' to 'tex' for 'all'
setting : 'MpExecutable' to 'mpost' for 'all'
setting : 'MpToTeXExecutable' to 'mpto' for 'all'
setting : 'DviToMpExecutable' to 'dvitomp' for 'all'
setting : 'DviSpecialScript' to 'dvispec' for 'all'
setting : 'MpFormat' to 'metafun' for 'all'
setting : 'TeXFormatFlag' to '&' for 'all'
setting : 'MpFormatFlag' to '&' for 'all'
setting : 'TeXFontsPath' to 'd:/tex/texmf;d:/tex/localtexmf;' for
'all'
setting : 'TeXFormatPath' to 'd:/tex/localtexmf/miktex/fmt' for 'all'
setting : 'ConTeXtPath' to 'd:/tex/texmf/tex/context/base' for 'all'
setting : 'SetupPath' to 'd:/tex/texmf/tex/context/user' for 'all'
setting : 'TexScriptsPath' to 'd:/tex/texmf/context/perltk' for 'all'
setting : 'TeXExecutable' to 'pdfetex' for 'miktex'
setting : 'TeXVirginFlag' to '--initialize' for 'miktex'
setting : 'TeXBatchFlag' to '--interaction=batchmode' for 'miktex'
setting : 'MpToTeXExecutable' to 'mptotex' for 'miktex'
setting : 'MpVirginFlag' to '--initialize' for 'miktex'
setting : 'MpPassString' to '' for 'miktex'
setting : 'MpBatchFlag' to '--interaction=batchmode' for 'miktex'
setting : 'TeXFormatFlag' to '--undump=' for 'miktex'
setting : 'MpFormatFlag' to '--undump=' for 'miktex'

used setting : TeXShell = miktex
used setting : SetupPath = d:/tex/texmf/tex/context/user
used setting : UserInterface = en
used setting : UsedInterfaces = en nl de uk
used setting : TeXFontsPath = d:/tex/texmf;d:/tex/localtexmf;
used setting : MpExecutable = mpost
used setting : MpToTeXExecutable = mptotex
used setting : DviToMpExecutable = dvitomp
used setting : TeXProgramPath =
used setting : TeXFormatPath = d:/tex/localtexmf/miktex/fmt
used setting : ConTeXtPath = d:/tex/texmf/tex/context/base
used setting : TeXScriptsPath =
used setting : TeXExecutable = pdfetex
used setting : TeXVirginFlag = --initialize
used setting : TeXBatchFlag = --interaction=batchmode
used setting : MpBatchFlag = --interaction=batchmode
used setting : TeXPassString =
used setting : TeXFormatFlag = --undump=
used setting : MpFormatFlag = --undump=
used setting : MpVirginFlag = --initialize
used setting : MpPassString =
used setting : MpFormat = metafun
used setting : FmtLanguage =
used setting : FmtBodyFont =
used setting : FmtResponse =
used setting : TcXPath =

If I try to run texexec test.tex I get the error message I mentioned
in my previous mail. If test.tex contains:
\starttext
\framed{Is it working?}
\stoptext

the only file I get has extension .tmp and it looks like:
\unprotect
\setupsystem[\c!gebied={d:/tex/texmf/tex/context/user/}]
\protect

Just in case I am running ActiveState Perl 5.6.1.628, Miktex 2.0 in
Windows NT 4.00.1381 SP6, 512 Mb RAM and plenty of HD space. Any help
will be appreciated.

Cheers,

Luis

-- 
Dr Luis A. Apiolaza
Quantitative Geneticist
CRC for Sustainable Production Forestry
School of Plant Science
University of Tasmania
GPO Box 252-55
Hobart TAS 7001
Australia

phone:   +61-3-6226 2213
fax:     +61-3-9229 2698
email:   mailto:luis.apiolaza@utas.edu.au

'There is no intellectual exercise which is not
ultimately useless'
Jorge Luis Borges
http://www.utas.edu.au/docs/plant_science/
;-)

On 7/7/2001 you wrote:

Hans> At 03:15 PM 7/6/01 +1000, Luis A. Apiolaza wrote:

>>But I do not get any output from the file. I don't know if the error
>>message "the name specified..." is produced by context or Perl. Any
>>ideas?

Hans> I don't recognize that message.

Hans> Did you copy texexec.rme into texexec.ini and activate the miktex section?

Hans> You can get a bit more info about what texexec does, when you say: 

Hans> texexec --verbose 

Hans> at least the paths shown should be ok

Hans> Hans
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Re: Re[2]: Problem installing context with miktex

[Hans Hagen]

Hi, 

>Just in case I am running ActiveState Perl 5.6.1.628, Miktex 2.0 in
>Windows NT 4.00.1381 SP6, 512 Mb RAM and plenty of HD space. Any help
>will be appreciated.

well, there are miktex users on this list; is there anyone who uses miktex
on win nt? 

is pdftex / pdfetex recognized as a valid program? 

Hans

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Re[4]: Problem installing context with miktex

[Giuseppe Bilotta]

Saturday, July 07, 2001 Hans Hagen wrote:

HH> Hi, 

>>Just in case I am running ActiveState Perl 5.6.1.628, Miktex 2.0 in
>>Windows NT 4.00.1381 SP6, 512 Mb RAM and plenty of HD space. Any help
>>will be appreciated.

HH> well, there are miktex users on this list; is there anyone who uses miktex
HH> on win nt? 

HH> is pdftex / pdfetex recognized as a valid program? 

It is, provided the user downloaded and installed the appropriate
level. MiKTeX comes with different levels. IIRC, pdfTeX and
pdf-e-TeX are provided by some of the "uppermost" levels (5, 6 or
something of the sort). I always get it all, so I don't know for
sure.

--
Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

RE: Re[2]: Problem installing context with miktex

[Richard Hensh]

I'm running MiKTeX on a Win2k machine and I was able to install and use
ConTeXt with no problems. The latest version of MiKTeX (2.1 - large)
automatically installs ConTeXt. From there, it's easy to create the format
files or download and install the latest version.

regards
ricky

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl [mailto:owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl]On
Behalf Of Hans Hagen
Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2001 10:17 AM
To: Luis A. Apiolaza
Cc: Context Support List
Subject: Re: Re[2]: Problem installing context with miktex

Hi,

>Just in case I am running ActiveState Perl 5.6.1.628, Miktex 2.0 in
>Windows NT 4.00.1381 SP6, 512 Mb RAM and plenty of HD space. Any help
>will be appreciated.

well, there are miktex users on this list; is there anyone who uses miktex
on win nt?

is pdftex / pdfetex recognized as a valid program?

Hans

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                      Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands
 tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com
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Re: Re[2]: Problem installing context with miktex

[Eckhart Guthöhrlein]

At 16:17 07.07.2001 +0200, Hans Hagen wrote:
> >Just in case I am running ActiveState Perl 5.6.1.628, Miktex 2.0 in
> >Windows NT 4.00.1381 SP6, 512 Mb RAM and plenty of HD space. Any help
> >will be appreciated.
>
>well, there are miktex users on this list; is there anyone who uses miktex
>on win nt?
>
>is pdftex / pdfetex recognized as a valid program?

Well, I followed the discussion, but I don't know what the problem is. I'm 
using MikTeX 2.1 with Windows 2000 SP1, ActivePerl 5.6.0.623, and 
everything works fine. I followed the instructions as Luis seems to have 
done it, set up the paths etc. Just to make sure: do you have a complete 
MikTeX installation *including pdfetex*? Did you add /texmf/context/perltk 
to your path, with runperl.exe renamed in this directory? (Don't want to 
insult your intelligence...)
I tried without pdfetex on my machine, but my error message differs ('The 
command "pdfetex" has been written incorrectly or cannot be found.') The 
lines Luis has in his .tmp file, are they written by texexec? I assume 
this, so a problem calling pdfetex might be the reason. If not, I don't 
have any more ideas for now.
Btw, I can recommend upgrading to miktex 2.1, the automatic package 
updating is a nice feature (well, at least for LaTeX users with dozens of 
add-on packages, but the context archive is not yet up-to-date, i think, so 
knowing the manual way is always an advantage).

Eckhart

Re: Re[2]: Problem installing context with miktex

[Marcela I. Avalos]

Yes, I set the paths, renamed the scripts to use .exe for the scripts.
However, when I run texexec everytime I get an error saying that the
commands are not recognized. The only command that works is --verbose. I
will certainly upgrade to Miktex 2.1 (this afternoon, Australian time) and
see if context works in that case. MOst probably I will ask a few questions
later.

Cheers,

Luis
----- Original Message -----
From: Eckhart Guthöhrlein <eckhart_guthoehrlein@public.uni-hamburg.de>
To: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>; Luis A. Apiolaza <luis.apiolaza@utas.edu.au>
Cc: Context Support List <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2001 3:59 AM
Subject: Re: Re[2]: Problem installing context with miktex

> At 16:17 07.07.2001 +0200, Hans Hagen wrote:
> > >Just in case I am running ActiveState Perl 5.6.1.628, Miktex 2.0 in
> > >Windows NT 4.00.1381 SP6, 512 Mb RAM and plenty of HD space. Any help
> > >will be appreciated.
> >
> >well, there are miktex users on this list; is there anyone who uses
miktex
> >on win nt?
> >
> >is pdftex / pdfetex recognized as a valid program?
>
> Well, I followed the discussion, but I don't know what the problem is. I'm
> using MikTeX 2.1 with Windows 2000 SP1, ActivePerl 5.6.0.623, and
> everything works fine. I followed the instructions as Luis seems to have
> done it, set up the paths etc. Just to make sure: do you have a complete
> MikTeX installation *including pdfetex*? Did you add /texmf/context/perltk
> to your path, with runperl.exe renamed in this directory? (Don't want to
> insult your intelligence...)
> I tried without pdfetex on my machine, but my error message differs ('The
> command "pdfetex" has been written incorrectly or cannot be found.') The
> lines Luis has in his .tmp file, are they written by texexec? I assume
> this, so a problem calling pdfetex might be the reason. If not, I don't
> have any more ideas for now.
> Btw, I can recommend upgrading to miktex 2.1, the automatic package
> updating is a nice feature (well, at least for LaTeX users with dozens of
> add-on packages, but the context archive is not yet up-to-date, i think,
so
> knowing the manual way is always an advantage).
>
> Eckhart
>
>

Re[2]: Problem installing context with miktex

[Luis A. Apiolaza]

Hi Hans,

Yes, I copied texexec.rme into texexec.rme after making a few
modifications in the file, namely setting the program to use miktex
and setting a few paths.

My tex installation tree looks like: d:\tex\texmf\... and
d:\tex\localtexmf\...

When I run texexec --verbose I get:

TeXExec 2.5 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2001

locating ini file : kpsewhich not found in path
locating ini file : found by searching
reading : .\texexec.ini
setting : 'TeXShell' to 'miktex' for 'all'
setting : 'UsedInterfaces' to 'en nl de uk' for 'all'
setting : 'UserInterface' to 'en' for 'all'
setting : 'TeXExecutable' to 'tex' for 'all'
setting : 'MpExecutable' to 'mpost' for 'all'
setting : 'MpToTeXExecutable' to 'mpto' for 'all'
setting : 'DviToMpExecutable' to 'dvitomp' for 'all'
setting : 'DviSpecialScript' to 'dvispec' for 'all'
setting : 'MpFormat' to 'metafun' for 'all'
setting : 'TeXFormatFlag' to '&' for 'all'
setting : 'MpFormatFlag' to '&' for 'all'
setting : 'TeXFontsPath' to 'd:/tex/texmf;d:/tex/localtexmf;' for
'all'
setting : 'TeXFormatPath' to 'd:/tex/localtexmf/miktex/fmt' for 'all'
setting : 'ConTeXtPath' to 'd:/tex/texmf/tex/context/base' for 'all'
setting : 'SetupPath' to 'd:/tex/texmf/tex/context/user' for 'all'
setting : 'TexScriptsPath' to 'd:/tex/texmf/context/perltk' for 'all'
setting : 'TeXExecutable' to 'pdfetex' for 'miktex'
setting : 'TeXVirginFlag' to '--initialize' for 'miktex'
setting : 'TeXBatchFlag' to '--interaction=batchmode' for 'miktex'
setting : 'MpToTeXExecutable' to 'mptotex' for 'miktex'
setting : 'MpVirginFlag' to '--initialize' for 'miktex'
setting : 'MpPassString' to '' for 'miktex'
setting : 'MpBatchFlag' to '--interaction=batchmode' for 'miktex'
setting : 'TeXFormatFlag' to '--undump=' for 'miktex'
setting : 'MpFormatFlag' to '--undump=' for 'miktex'

used setting : TeXShell = miktex
used setting : SetupPath = d:/tex/texmf/tex/context/user
used setting : UserInterface = en
used setting : UsedInterfaces = en nl de uk
used setting : TeXFontsPath = d:/tex/texmf;d:/tex/localtexmf;
used setting : MpExecutable = mpost
used setting : MpToTeXExecutable = mptotex
used setting : DviToMpExecutable = dvitomp
used setting : TeXProgramPath =
used setting : TeXFormatPath = d:/tex/localtexmf/miktex/fmt
used setting : ConTeXtPath = d:/tex/texmf/tex/context/base
used setting : TeXScriptsPath =
used setting : TeXExecutable = pdfetex
used setting : TeXVirginFlag = --initialize
used setting : TeXBatchFlag = --interaction=batchmode
used setting : MpBatchFlag = --interaction=batchmode
used setting : TeXPassString =
used setting : TeXFormatFlag = --undump=
used setting : MpFormatFlag = --undump=
used setting : MpVirginFlag = --initialize
used setting : MpPassString =
used setting : MpFormat = metafun
used setting : FmtLanguage =
used setting : FmtBodyFont =
used setting : FmtResponse =
used setting : TcXPath =

If I try to run texexec test.tex I get the error message I mentioned
in my previous mail. If test.tex contains:
\starttext
\framed{Is it working?}
\stoptext

the only file I get has extension .tmp and it looks like:
\unprotect
\setupsystem[\c!gebied={d:/tex/texmf/tex/context/user/}]
\protect

Just in case I am running ActiveState Perl 5.6.1.628, Miktex 2.0 in
Windows NT 4.00.1381 SP6, 512 Mb RAM and plenty of HD space. Any help
will be appreciated.

Cheers,

Luis

-- 
Dr Luis A. Apiolaza
Quantitative Geneticist
CRC for Sustainable Production Forestry
School of Plant Science
University of Tasmania
GPO Box 252-55
Hobart TAS 7001
Australia

phone:   +61-3-6226 2213
fax:     +61-3-9229 2698
email:   mailto:luis.apiolaza@utas.edu.au

'There is no intellectual exercise which is not
ultimately useless'
Jorge Luis Borges
http://www.utas.edu.au/docs/plant_science/
;-)

On 7/7/2001 you wrote:

Hans> At 03:15 PM 7/6/01 +1000, Luis A. Apiolaza wrote:

>>But I do not get any output from the file. I don't know if the error
>>message "the name specified..." is produced by context or Perl. Any
>>ideas?

Hans> I don't recognize that message.

Hans> Did you copy texexec.rme into texexec.ini and activate the miktex section?

Hans> You can get a bit more info about what texexec does, when you say: 

Hans> texexec --verbose 

Hans> at least the paths shown should be ok

Hans> Hans
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Hans>                       Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands
Hans>  tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com
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