Re: integratie context/Latex2e (MikTeX 1.11)

Re: integratie context/Latex2e (MikTeX 1.11)

[Hans Hagen]

Erik.Cuynen wrote:

> As I understand from the manual, one has to process files with:
>         context <filename>
> Can you provide the necessary information/files to have this working?

You should first generate a ftm file. Can you search for that in the
miktex manuals? 

Just like plain.fmt and latex.fmt, you should make a context.fmt,
probably doing something like:

  tex   --ini cont-nl   % dutch version 

or 

  miktex -ini cont-nl 

Then you can run context by 

  tex &cont-nl 

or something alike. 

Just start searching for 'generating formats' in the manuals. 

You need a rather large memory setup, so also search for 'memory'. 

(When you manage to find out, we make a nice description.)

Hans

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Re: (continued) howto integrate context with existing Latex2e (MikTeX 1.11)

[Erik.Cuynen]

<prompt> cd \texmf\tex\latex\context

first: generate fmt file as follows:

<prompt> tex   --ini cont-nl   

untils processing halts and something like this appears:

loading        : Context Core Macros / Navigation
) (core-ref.tex
loading        : Context Core Macros / Cross Referencing
) (core-obj.tex
loading        : Context Core Macros / Object Handling
) (core-01a.tex
loading        : Context Core Macros (a)
! Missing number, treated as zero.
<to be read again>
                   u
\s!unknown ->u
              nknown
\v!compareprocessaction ...telement {#1}#2
                                          \let \p!doprocessaction =\g...
\next2 #1,->\p!doprocessaction {#1}
                                   \doprocesscommaitem
\nextcommaitem ...}\doprocesscommaitem #1,
                                          ]\relax \advance \commaleve...
\processaction ... [#3]\p!doprocessaction
                                          \expandactions
...
l.16118                 \c!regels=]

?

press RETURN, RETURN, RETURN, RETURN (as many times as necessary)

the following files were created:

CONTEXT  CON        18,590  10-29-98  1:17p context.con
CONTEXT  COM        23,136  10-29-98  1:17p context.com
CONT-NL  LOG        18,327  10-29-98  1:18p cont-nl.log
CONT-NL  DVI           308  10-29-98  1:18p cont-nl.dvi
CONT-NL  FMT     3,431,120  10-29-98  1:18p cont-nl.fmt
CONT-NEW LOG           925  10-29-98  1:21p cont-new.log
CONT-NEW TUI            88  10-29-98  1:21p cont-new.tui

then run context by:

<prompt> tex &cont-nl 

which displays:

Dit pakket is gebaseerd op Plain TeX. Er wordt gebruik gemaakt van een
aangepaste versie van het mark mechanisme van J. Fox (1987) en onderdelen
van het sidefloat mechanisme van D. Comenetz (1993). De functionaliteit
van D.E. Knuth's Plain TeX (3.141592) is grotendeels beschikbaar en kan
zonder problemen worden gebruikt. Dit pakket gebruikt TaBlE, ontworpen
door
M.J. Wichura (1988), die ook het auteursrecht bezit. Er worden slechts een
paar hulpfiles gegenereerd, waarvan er enkele moeten worden bewerkt door
TeXUtil (1998.07.07). Het blokmechanisme heeft versienummer 1996.03.10.

Copyright 1990-1998 / PRAGMA / J. Hagen - A.F. Otten

systeem        : cont-new geladen
(cont-new.tex)
systeem        : cont-old geladen
(cont-old.tex
loading        : Context Old Macros
)
systeem        : cont-fil geladen
(cont-fil.tex
loading        : Context File Synonyms
)
korps          : 12pt romaan wordt geladen
specials       : tex,postscript,rokicki geladen

*

<prompt> \end

Vergeet niet TeXUtil en zonodig ConTeXt nog eens te runnen.

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Okay, so far so good I presume; what should be done next?
Please keep in mind that I more or less used to LaTeX; will I still be
albe to Latex <filename> by including context.sty (something like this) or
is a different approach necessary?

Can someone send me a relatively simple context file so I can quickly test
if everything is processed as it should?

Thanks!
Erik

PS what is meant by: "Vergeet niet TeXUtil en ..." nog eens te runnen?

integratie context/Latex2e (MikTeX 1.11)

[Erik.Cuynen]

Hi,

due to a coincidence, I became aware of the existence of ppchtex. It can
be easily implemented in Latex2e as follows:

\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article}
\usepackage{m-chemie}
\begin{document}
...
\end{document}

Details on the syntax are explained in document ppch-ned.pdf (in dutch).
However, 
	I got also interested very much in the context package. The
context pdf manual looks so overwelming that I would like to try it out
immediately. With this mail, I hope to get the necessary information on
how to extend the existing MikTeX installation with CONTEXT.
As I understand from the manual, one has to process files with:
	context <filename>
Can you provide the necessary information/files to have this working?

Thank you very much!

Erik Cuynen

PS I already downloaded con-tex.zip but a file contex.exe seems missing;
unless I do something wrong?
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