From: Giuseppe Bilotta <bourbaki@bigfoot.com>
Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: Installation blues
Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2002 09:35:13 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1021963398.20020316093513@bigfoot.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020316004928.A16798@idi.ntnu.no>
Saturday, March 16, 2002 Magnus Lie Hetland wrote:
MLH> Hi!
MLH> I think ConTeXt looks like a great package, and I've thought so for
MLH> quite some time -- but I haven't been able to install it :I
MLH> I tried a while back to install it with MiKTeX, but gave up after a
MLH> while. I recently tried again, but after getting things in place (not
MLH> an easy thing), I got an error message from pdetex because it didn't
MLH> understand an option supplied by texexec. Oh, well, I thought, and put
MLH> it on the back-burner again.
I can only help you with the MiKTeX install (I'm a
ConTeXt-on-MiKTeX user :-)).
First thing: ABSOLUTELY DON'T use the ConTeXt that comes with
MiKTeX. It's outdated and the non-TeX part is badly implemented.
Rather, grab the latest beta from www.pragma-pod.nl or from the
FTP mirror ftp://ftp.wau.nl/pub/pragma/context/beta (the name of
the file is cont-tmf.zip).
Unpack the zip on the LOCAL TeX/MF tree, preserving directory
structure (the .zip is TDS-structured so it will plug in nicely
with whatever else you have there.)
Refresh the filename database.
Navigate to \localtexmf\context\perltk and unpack runperl.exe; copy
it to texexec.exe, texutil.exe and so on and so forth for each
Perl script. (BTW you can also use it for your own Perl scripts.)
Add the path to \localtexmf\context\perltk to your system path
(editing your autoexec.bat if your on Win9x/WinME, setting the
appropriate variable in the Control Panel in WinNT/Win2K/WinXP).
Edit \localtexmf\context\perltk\texexec.ini (if it's not there,
copy texexec.rme to texexec.ini and edit the .ini). FWIW, the
miktex part is set thus in my system:
for miktex set TeXExecutable to pdfetex
for miktex set TeXVirginFlag to --initialize
for miktex set TeXPassString to --alias=context --terminal=oem --enable-write18
for miktex set TeXBatchFlag to --interaction=batchmode
for miktex set MpToTeXExecutable to mptotex
for miktex set MpVirginFlag to --initialize
for miktex set MpPassString to --alias=mpost --terminal=oem
for miktex set MpBatchFlag to
% should be --interaction=batchmode but MiKTeX 2.1 does not support it!
for miktex set TeXFormatFlag to --undump=
for miktex set MpFormatFlag to --undump=
Finally, find your local copy of the miktex.ini file
(\localtexmf\miktex\config\miktex.ini) and in the [ConTeXt]
section add AT LEAST the following line:
pool_size=1000000
I also added:
write18 = enable
just in case I forget to use --enable-write18 in the texexec.ini
file.
--
Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-03-16 8:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-03-15 23:49 Magnus Lie Hetland
2002-03-16 0:07 ` Frans Goddijn
2002-03-16 1:10 ` Magnus Lie Hetland
2002-03-16 4:26 ` Frans Goddijn
2002-03-17 18:54 ` Magnus Lie Hetland
2002-03-17 20:02 ` Frans Goddijn
2002-03-17 20:07 ` Magnus Lie Hetland
2002-03-17 21:01 ` Frans Goddijn
2002-03-17 0:51 ` Fabrice Popineau
2002-03-17 10:28 ` Re[2]: " Giuseppe Bilotta
2002-03-17 11:55 ` Daniel Pittman
2002-03-17 13:24 ` Re[4]: " Giuseppe Bilotta
2002-03-17 18:52 ` Magnus Lie Hetland
2002-03-17 21:36 ` Fabrice Popineau
2002-03-17 11:42 ` Hans Hagen
2002-03-19 18:24 ` Frans Goddijn
2002-03-20 8:55 ` Hans Hagen
2002-03-19 18:51 ` Frans Goddijn
2002-03-16 8:35 ` Giuseppe Bilotta [this message]
2002-03-19 18:58 Frans Goddijn
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