From: Thomas Porter <txporter@mindspring.com>
Subject: context w/ fptex?
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:12:09 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19991006131209.A22999@vasili.rlf.org> (raw)
Since Ispend most of my time at work in front of a WIN98 box as opposed to my
beloved Linux box at home, I thought I would investigate some of the win32 TeX
offerings. I got miktex, but it did not seem to come with support for context
right out of the box, so I decided to try fptex, since it is based on tetex and
web2c. fptex installed just fine, with gs and winedit, but when I tried to run
texexec, it could not find it.
I searched the install dir's and did not find a texexec.pl, so Iloaded the
cont-tmf.zip into the texmf tree. I have active state perl installed, but when
I tried to run texexec.pl, it did not like the line used to invoke kpsewhich,
like this:
$IniPath = `$kpsewhich --format="other text files" -progname=context
texexec.ini` ;
Evidently, it did not interpolate the $kpsewhich variable, but tried to execute
"$kpsewhich" directly. At any rate, I took the '$' off and it ran OK.
So then I tried 'perl c:\tex\texmf\context\preltk\texexec.pl --make en' and got
errors related to paths in texmf.cnf. Fixed those and finally ran into errors
with pool sizes. Tweaked texmf.cnf to look more like my Linux one as far as
context-related pool, hash, string, etc sizes went, and reran. Finally got
errors on memory being exceeded like so:
(c:/TEX/texmf/tex/context/base/font-cmr.tex
Runaway argument?
{\unexpanded \setvalue {12ptrm
! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [main memory size=263001].
<argument> ...b}}} {\unexpanded \setvalue {12ptrmb
sb}{\doloadfont {12pt}{rm}...
Anyone else running context with fptex 2.4.2? Any suggestions for a better
win32 tex to go with? Any pointers to how to make context work with miktex, if
I go back that way?
This would be pretty neat to get to work under win98. I admire the people who
have worked so hard to get TeX to work under DOS/WIN in spite of all its
limitations.
Thanks in advance
--
Tom Porter txporter@mindspring.com
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"On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament],
'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will
the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the
kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."
next reply other threads:[~1999-10-06 17:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-10-06 17:12 Thomas Porter [this message]
1999-10-07 8:25 ` Hans Hagen
1999-10-07 14:27 ` Thomas Porter
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