Re: Module documentation

["Wolfgang Schuster" <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>]

On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 4:25 PM,  <richard.stephens@converteam.com> wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> I have been using Context for a while now and have learnt a lot from the
> manuals and wiki.  I now want to start to use features that are not
> documented.  On the wiki
> (http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Official_ConTeXt_Documentation#ConTeXt_Sources)
> I found the following command for producing a pdf output for a module:
>
> texmfstart texexec --module kpse:core-tab.tex
>
> which seems ideal for learning more.  When I run the above command line it
> creates a .ted file but then complains:
>
> "I can't find the format file 'cont-en.fmt'!"
>
> On Luigi Scarso's page
> (http://wiki.contextgarden.net/User:Luigi.scarso/modules.pdf) he suggests
> the following:
>
> texexec --module --pdf core-tab.tex
>
> but this returns no output at all, and no pdf.
>
> I am working on Windows.  I installed (this week) from the
> context/install/mswincontext.zip on the Pragma site and normally build from
> the Scite editor.
>
> Can anyone suggest what I'm doing wrong?

The mswincontext package use local settings for the paths and you can
use them only with scite or the setup script. You could try to add the path
for the setuptext script to the global path variables to use LuaTeX etc.
systemwide or you use the command line from scite.

Wolfgang
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