Re: Using existing tex styles

[Taco Hoekwater <taco.hoekwater@wkap.nl>]

>>>>> "Marc" == Marc van Dongen <dongen@cs.ucc.ie> writes:

    Marc> Hi there, I have just installed Context and read some of the
    Marc> documentation.  To be precice, I have red: ConTEXt an
    Marc> Excursion (nice to see Hasselt being promoted this way) and
    Marc> some of the on-line short articles.

    Marc> Maybe I missed something, but I could not find anything
    Marc> about using existing tex styles. Is this possible?  Sorry if
    Marc> I missed something. I'm just starting.

there are some presentation styles in the distribution and some files
for submission to TeX journal (ntg's maps), but other than that you
are on your own for the moment. we are working on that, but it is not
hard to design your own. have a look at the s-pre-* and s-map* things.

    Marc> Also I had problems installing (I am using TeTeX 1.0) which
    Marc> runs without problems. I have tried to install ConTeX
    Marc> properly for about three times and then gave up.

    Marc> What didn't seem to work was that I to comlete the ``texec
    Marc> --make uk en'' command. This failed over and over again. I
    Marc> followed the instructions in - How to install ConTEXt and -
    Marc> TeXEXEC explained; Is this a known problem?

I'm guessing what your problem is (not enough information), but there
was an obvious problem in my teTeX: the search path did not include
the etex subdirectories while context uses pdfetex as a default. I now
have these lines in texmf.cnf:

TEXINPUTS.context =.;$TEXMF/{pdftex,etex,tex}/{context,plain,generic,}//
TEXINPUTS.cont-nl =.;$TEXMF/{pdftex,etex,tex}/{context,plain,generic,}//
TEXINPUTS.cont-en =.;$TEXMF/{pdftex,etex,tex}/{context,plain,generic,}// 

greetings, taco