Re: mtxrun

[Rudolf Bahr <quasi@quasi.de>]

On Fri, Feb 14, 2020 at 08:59:57PM +0100, Luca Donetti wrote:
> > > So I run explicitly the second one:
> > >   ~/context-lmtx/bin/mtxrun --generate
> > > but I got the same error.
> >
> > This is the wrong binary. As Hans said (and also what I wrote in my
> > message) is that you have to run the one in
> > ~/context-lmtx/tex/texmf-linux-64/bin/



Hi Luca,

> 1) always writing the full path of the correct executable,

I don't know which operating system you're using. On linux instead of writing
the full path I'm using the command "alias" in my ".bashrc" file. So, Adityas
proposal on mtxrun (Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2020 00:24:21 -0500 (EST)) becomes:

alias context='~/context-lmtx/tex/texmf-linux-64/bin/mtxrun --autogenerate --script
                      context'
with 'context-lmtx' being the directory, where I installed context.
With this you invoke your context file with "context your-file.tex"
I cancelled all context stuff in my PATH variable. Don't forget to 'source ~/.bashrc'
afterwards. 

> 2) avoid putting [lmtx path]/bin in PATH,

Yes, this could be a solution too, in my opinion.

> 3) putting [lmtx path]/bin _after_ [lmtx path]/tex/texmf-linux-64/bin in
> the PATH
> 
> I'm asking here because option 1 is correct but not very handy, while 2)
> and 3) are different from what the installer says and they seemed to give
> other problems when I tried them.

I hope this helps you! At least in the case you're using linux.

Best wishes,

Rudolf
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