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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