On Saturday, July 02, 2011 11:03:36 am John Culleton wrote:
> On Saturday, July 02, 2011 10:45:24 am John Culleton 
wrote:
> > Followed this wiki,
> > http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_Minimals
> > 
> >  installed in my personal directory.
> > 
> > Now for the most elementary quetsion: Given the file
> > foo.tex how do I actually run mkiv context on it?
> > I tried
> > mtxrun template.tex
> > and I get the error:
> > ./template.tex:1: unexpected symbol near '\'
> > 
> > template.tex is an outline of a Context file:
> > ---------------------------
> 
> And here is template.tex:
> \starttext
> \startfrontmatter
> \startstandardmakeup
> %\input title.tex
> \stopstandardmakeup
> \completecontent
> %\input preface.tex
> \stopfrontmatter
> \startbodymatter
> Hello world.
> %\input body.tex
> \stopbodymatter
> \startbackmatter
> \completeindex
> \stopbackmatter
> \stoptext
> 
> Tried running it as a plain texexec (MKII) file and got
> this message:
> 
> bash-4.1$ texexec template.tex
> MTXrun | kpse fallback with progname 'context' 
initialized
> in 0.09 seconds
> /usr/local/texlive/2010/../texmf-
> local/scripts/context/ruby/texexec.rb:8:in `require': no
> such file to load -- ftools (LoadError)
>         from /usr/local/texlive/2010/../texmf-
> local/scripts/context/ruby/texexec.rb:8:in `<main>'
> 
> I have a standard texlive 2010 installation. I have been
> able to run ordinary tex, pdftex etc. files before today.
> I also was able to run Context files without a problem.
> 
> I will switch to an old partition that has no minimals
> installation and see if that will fly on the same file.

OK instead I ran 
/home/safe/context/tex/setuptex
again, then 
context template.tex
and it worked as a user. The setuptex must be run in each 
console I use. I'll create a script to simplify things in 
case I forget again.
-- 
John Culleton

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