Installation blues

[Magnus Lie Hetland <magnus@hetland.org>]

Hi!

I think ConTeXt looks like a great package, and I've thought so for
quite some time -- but I haven't been able to install it :I

I tried a while back to install it with MiKTeX, but gave up after a
while. I recently tried again, but after getting things in place (not
an easy thing), I got an error message from pdetex because it didn't
understand an option supplied by texexec. Oh, well, I thought, and put
it on the back-burner again.

Suddenly I remembered a phrase from the installation manual: "When you
are using teTeX or derived distributions, you can usually stick to the
regular updates [...]". After investigated, I realised that this meant
that ConTeXt was included in teTeX -- and that fpTeX was a Windows
port. Yay!

The installation of fpTeX went without any problems (really a great
distribution), but using ConTeXt still wasn't as easy as I would like.
(I still haven't been able to make it work.) First of all, the
texexec.exe included (which is basically runperl.exe, I guess) doesn't
accept spaces in the directory name, and since the default
installation location is in "C:\Program Files\..." that is definitely
a problem. I moved it (and texexec.pl) somewhere else, as well as
copying texexec.rme to a texexec.ini in the same location (why isn't
this done by default?).

Now I am able to run texexec, but for some reason I get an error from
pdfeTeX... It can't find my tex files... Even when I run it without
texexec on a file in the current directory (e.g. test.tex) I get the
error message

! I can't find file `test.tex'.

What could be the problem now?

(If this question belongs on the pdftex list instead, or perhaps even
a separate fpTeX list, I apologise.)

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Magnus Lie Hetland                                  The Anygui Project
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