From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/14599 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tobias Burnus Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Windows xp user wants to begin with context Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 18:13:19 +0100 Sender: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Message-ID: <20040122171319.GA11734@physik.fu-berlin.de> References: <20040122165244.67148.qmail@web21106.mail.yahoo.com> Reply-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1074791680 27499 80.91.224.253 (22 Jan 2004 17:14:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 17:14:40 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Thu Jan 22 18:14:30 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from ref.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.13] helo=ref.ntg.nl) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AjiPW-0002mG-00 for ; Thu, 22 Jan 2004 18:14:30 +0100 Original-Received: from ref.ntg.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13D4710B5D; Thu, 22 Jan 2004 18:13:28 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from up.physik.fu-berlin.de (up.physik.fu-berlin.de [160.45.34.5]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75D9710B0D for ; Thu, 22 Jan 2004 18:12:24 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from g25.physik.fu-berlin.de (g25.physik.fu-berlin.de [160.45.34.125]) by up.physik.fu-berlin.de (8.11.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id i0MHDKX885833; Thu, 22 Jan 2004 18:13:20 +0100 (CET) X-Envelope-From: tburnus@physik.fu-berlin.de X-ZEDV-BeenThere: nukleon Original-Received: from tburnus by g25.physik.fu-berlin.de with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AjiON-0003Cj-00; Thu, 22 Jan 2004 18:13:19 +0100 Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040122165244.67148.qmail@web21106.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Errors-To: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:14599 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:14599 Hello, On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 08:52:44AM -0800, Wilfried Van Hirtum wrote: > I'm a complete ms word user who wants to convert to context to make his mathematical textbooks. I have windows xp on my computer, but nothing (really nothing like perl, editor's or distribution) else. What exactly have i to do make my pc work with context? First, welcome in the club. You need a TeX distribution. There are three possible starting points: a) TeX Live - http://www.tug.org/texlive/ b) fpTeX - http://www.fptex.org/ c) MikTeX - http://www.miktex.org/ If you find someone who has a TeX Live CD it is probably the easiest way. TeX Live is up to date and contains a few editors (if I remember correctly). Otherwise try either fpTeX or MikTeX. (I personally like fpTeX more, it is more similar to Unix's teTeX and part of TeX Live, but it is really a matter of taste.) Both MikTeX and fpTeX should contain a not-too-old version of ConTeXt. I don't know whether you need to install PERL as well or whether it is included with the installer of (a),(b) and/or (c). Otherwise, it is available from http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl/ Having GhostScript (a PostScript viewer) is also nice, it is available from http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/doc/AFPL/get811.htm and you should get GSView too. For an editor, I remember that I used PFE back then 5 (?) years ago. But there are probably better one available. I found this list, but I cannot give a recommondation: http://home.nexgo.de/itsfd/texwin.htm > By the way, don't say to me to read the how to install context manual which are not meant to read by absolute beginners. Well, it requires you to have TeX installed, which is already a false assumption for real beginners ;) > I would appreciate your advise very much. I hope some with more recent experience in TeX on Windows will jump in. Regards, Tobias