Stand alone Context editing environment

Stand alone Context editing environment

[David Arnold]

All,

At:

http://www.pragma-ade.com/download-1.htm

There is:

http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/install/mswincontext.zip

Can someone explain to me what this is? If it is downloaded and  
unzipped, is it ready to go? Is there documentation of this  
particular zip? Is there an editor in this zip configured and ready  
to go?

Very curious.

Re: Stand alone Context editing environment

[Idris Samawi Hamid]

> http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/install/mswincontext.zip

is all that I use. Dump it as C:\ConTeXt

add it to your PATH, or add a

CALL setuptex C:\ConTeXt\tex

to you batch files, editor, whatever, before invoking texexec

read the README

and u're good to go. Just need to be clear on which TeX system gets  
called, which is what

setuptex

does.

Even when I need LaTeX, I just dump the XemTeX files into this tree.

I hope Hans makes an installer for it, so your grandmother can install it  
too!

-))

Best
Idris
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Department of Philosophy
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO 80523

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Re: Stand alone Context editing environment

[Hans Hagen]

David Arnold wrote:

> All,
>
> At:
>
> http://www.pragma-ade.com/download-1.htm
>
> There is:
>
> http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/install/mswincontext.zip
>
> Can someone explain to me what this is? If it is downloaded and  
> unzipped, is it ready to go? Is there documentation of this  
> particular zip? Is there an editor in this zip configured and ready  
> to go?

the slightly bigger variant is cdwincontext, which has also scite ruby 
and perl; if you put that on a windows machine, and run the bat file in 
the root path you have a stand alone environment (in projects, this is 
what we give authors)

Hans

Re: Stand alone Context editing environment

[Miguel Queiros]

> http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/install/mswincontext.zip
> 
> Can someone explain to me what this is? If it is downloaded and  
> unzipped, is it ready to go? Is there documentation of this  
> particular zip? Is there an editor in this zip configured and ready  
> to go?

I'm using it. You just need to install Perl and Ruby.

Take a look at: http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2005/014223.html

If you had instaled Miktex on Windows before you should note that
you might need to take Miktex from your PATH. I had to do it.

Miguel Queirós

Re: Stand alone Context editing environment

[David Arnold]

Hans,

I don't see cdwincontext on

http://pragma-ade.com/download-1.htm

Where can I find it?

On Jan 18, 2006, at 3:28 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:

> David Arnold wrote:
>
>> All,
>>
>> At:
>>
>> http://www.pragma-ade.com/download-1.htm
>>
>> There is:
>>
>> http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/install/mswincontext.zip
>>
>> Can someone explain to me what this is? If it is downloaded and   
>> unzipped, is it ready to go? Is there documentation of this   
>> particular zip? Is there an editor in this zip configured and  
>> ready  to go?
>
> the slightly bigger variant is cdwincontext, which has also scite  
> ruby and perl; if you put that on a windows machine, and run the  
> bat file in the root path you have a stand alone environment (in  
> projects, this is what we give authors)
>
> Hans
> _______________________________________________
> ntg-context mailing list
> ntg-context@ntg.nl
> http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

Re: Stand alone Context editing environment

[Ville Voipio]

> Can someone explain to me what this is? If it is downloaded and  
> unzipped, is it ready to go? Is there documentation of this  particular 
> zip? Is there an editor in this zip configured and ready  to go?

Here is a step by step of how it should go (i.e. what I did with success):

1. Get perl and install it. I use ActivePerl:
      http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl/?mp=1

2. Get ruby and install it. I used:
      http://rubyinstaller.rubyforge.org/

3. Check that perl and ruby work. Go to the command prompt (Start -> 
Run... "cmd") and execute the two commands:
      ruby --version
      perl --version
    These should give some information on ruby and perl. It really does 
not matter what they say, as long as the interpreters are found.

4. Download mswincontext.zip

5. Unzip the contents under c:\temp. You should get c:\temp\isoimage.

6. Create a new folder c:\context

7. Copy everything under c:\temp\isoimage into c:\context. There should 
be one folder (/usr) and a few files.

8. Open the folder c:\context and double-click cdemo.bat

9. Now you should see the editor open with a few files. Press F7 to 
compile one of the files. If everything goes smoothly, you are done. If 
not, read these instructions again carefully. If you cannot get it work, 
mail the list.


A few notes on the procedure above:

- perl and ruby per se have nothing to do with ConTeXt, ConTeXt just 
needs them. So, if you have another perl and ruby (e.g. through cygwin), 
they are fine as long as they are in the system path. If you can get 
through step #3 without doing #1 and #2, fine.

- It is up to you to choose the location where you unzip the file in 
step #5, no magic there. Just that you know where the files are.

- The actual location of the ConTeXt in step #6 tree does not matter. I 
use c:\context, but you might use something else. However, I would not 
use anything with a space in the name (e.g. c:\Program Files\context), 
as that may confuse things. (Has anybody tried lately?)

- After you have verified everything works in step #9, you can toss 
cdemo.bat away and use cstart.bat to start everything. Make a link to it 
somewhere so that you can start the system by a shortcut or through the 
Start menu. Do not move the batch script anywhere, it has to be run in 
the root directory of the distribution (e.g. c:\context).

- Make sure you have something Acrobatish installed, otherwise you won't 
see the results in step #9.

Good luck!

- Ville


P.S. Is this information already in the Wiki? I found only some short 
notes, but this might be somehow important for beginners. I can put it 
there if neeeded.

Re: Stand alone Context editing environment

[Henning Hraban Ramm]

Am 2006-01-19 um 09:35 schrieb Ville Voipio:

>> Can someone explain to me what this is? If it is downloaded and   
>> unzipped, is it ready to go? Is there documentation of this   
>> particular zip? Is there an editor in this zip configured and  
>> ready  to go?
>
> Here is a step by step of how it should go (i.e. what I did with  
> success):

Thank you, I'm wikifying that.
see http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Windows_Installation


Greetlings from Lake Constance!
Hraban
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Re: Stand alone Context editing environment

[Ville Voipio]

Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
> Thank you, I'm wikifying that.
> see http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Windows_Installation

Oh, great if you do it (then I don't need to). Thanks.

> Greetlings from Lake Constance!

Greetings from slightly cool (-22 'C at the moment) Finland.

- Ville

Re: Stand alone Context editing environment

[Mojca Miklavec]

On 1/19/06, Miguel Queiros wrote:
>
> > http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/install/mswincontext.zip
> >
> > Can someone explain to me what this is? If it is downloaded and
> > unzipped, is it ready to go? Is there documentation of this
> > particular zip?

See isoimage\usr\local\context\tex\setuptex.bat:

REM Installatie van Minimal ConTeXt
REM
REM Instellingen ten behoeve van CONTEXT (TEX) installatie.
REM Deze file moet worden aangeroepen in de file
REM "autoexec.bat" die te vinden is onder c:\. Voeg aan die
REM file toe:
REM
REM   call c:\tex\setuptex.bat
...

Haven't you noticed/read this? :)

> > Is there an editor in this zip configured and ready
> > to go?

Scite (as was already described, execute cdemo.bat).

> If you had instaled Miktex on Windows before you should note that
> you might need to take Miktex from your PATH. I had to do it.

No, there's no need to remove MikTeX from PATH. I've put an
"pragmatex.bat" into path with the content (one line only):

C:\context\misc\context\usr\local\context\tex\setuptex.bat
C:\context\misc\context\usr\local\context\tex

I've also written this on
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Windows_Installation, but my edits need
a revision.

Mojca