From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/988 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thomas Porter Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: context w/ fptex? Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:12:09 -0400 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <19991006131209.A22999@vasili.rlf.org> Reply-To: txporter@mindspring.com NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035391829 28803 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 16:50:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 16:50:29 +0000 (UTC) Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:988 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:988 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]. ...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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "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."