First baby steps with MKIV

First baby steps with MKIV

[John Culleton]

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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:
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-- 
John Culleton

"Death Wore Black" Police procedural: 
http://www.deathworeblack.com/

"Create Book Covers with Scribus"
http://booklocker.com/books/4055.html

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Re: First baby steps with MKIV

[yoraxe]

Am 02.07.2011 16:45, schrieb John Culleton:
> 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?

context foo
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Re: First baby steps with MKIV

[John Culleton]

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On Saturday, July 02, 2011 10:47:20 am yoraxe wrote:
> Am 02.07.2011 16:45, schrieb John Culleton:
> > 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?
> 
> context foo

Not quite. First I have to issue a special command to put 
the context installation in play. So I created a script 
"Context" like this:
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source /home/safe/context/tex/setuptex
context $1
--------------------------------
-- 
John Culleton

"Death Wore Black" Police procedural: 
http://www.deathworeblack.com/

"Create Book Covers with Scribus"
http://booklocker.com/books/4055.html

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Re: First baby steps with MKIV

[luigi scarso]

On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 6:00 PM, John Culleton <john@wexfordpress.com> wrote:
> --------------------------------------
>
> source /home/safe/context/tex/setuptex
>
> context $1
>
> --------------------------------
better

source /home/safe/context/tex/setuptex /home/safe/context/tex
context $1
-- 
luigi
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Re: First baby steps with MKIV

[John Haltiwanger]

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On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 9:03 AM, luigi scarso <luigi.scarso@gmail.com>wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 6:00 PM, John Culleton <john@wexfordpress.com>
> wrote:
> > --------------------------------------
> >
> > source /home/safe/context/tex/setuptex
> >
> > context $1
> >
> > --------------------------------
> better
>
> source /home/safe/context/tex/setuptex /home/safe/context/tex
> context $1
> --
>

I haven't seen this before. What is the advantage of the second argument to
source ?

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Re: First baby steps with MKIV

[John Culleton]

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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. 


-- 
John Culleton

"Death Wore Black" Police procedural: 
http://www.deathworeblack.com/

"Create Book Covers with Scribus"
http://booklocker.com/books/4055.html

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Re: First baby steps with MKIV

[John Culleton]

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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

"Death Wore Black" Police procedural: 
http://www.deathworeblack.com/

"Create Book Covers with Scribus"
http://booklocker.com/books/4055.html

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Re: First baby steps with MKIV

[Khaled Hosny]

On Sat, Jul 02, 2011 at 11:21:19AM -0400, John Culleton wrote:
> 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.

If you only have minimals (no texlive for example), then you can simply
prepend <minimals>/tex/texmf-linux/bin to your PATH.

Regards,
 Khaled

-- 
 Khaled Hosny
 Egyptian
 Arab
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