From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/20767 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: How do Windows users call texexec etc. Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2005 21:58:44 +0200 Message-ID: <42A89F74.9070107@wxs.nl> References: <200506091527.58426.john@wexfordpress.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1118347003 22912 80.91.229.2 (9 Jun 2005 19:56:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2005 19:56:43 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Jun 09 21:56:39 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DgT69-0000Fr-3v for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Jun 2005 21:53:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2370A12801; Thu, 9 Jun 2005 21:58:07 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 02510-04-8; Thu, 9 Jun 2005 21:58:03 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D155127F2; Thu, 9 Jun 2005 21:58:03 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 271CD127F2 for ; Thu, 9 Jun 2005 21:58:03 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 02510-04-7 for ; Thu, 9 Jun 2005 21:58:02 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mailrelay02.solcon.nl (maillb.solcon.nl [212.45.32.200]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A522127ED for ; Thu, 9 Jun 2005 21:58:02 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from server-1.pragma-net.nl (dsl-212-84-128-085.solcon.nl [212.84.128.85]) by mailrelay02.solcon.nl (8.12.11/SQL-8.12.11-5/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j59JvvdU029804 for ; Thu, 9 Jun 2005 21:57:57 +0200 Original-Received: by server-1.pragma-net.nl (Postfix, from userid 65534) id 5CA3F1A68A; Thu, 9 Jun 2005 21:27:06 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.53] (unknown [10.100.1.53]) by server-1.pragma-net.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1208417D12 for ; Thu, 9 Jun 2005 19:27:05 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <200506091527.58426.john@wexfordpress.com> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.85.1, clamav-milter version 0.85 on mailrelay02 X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on smtp.ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:20767 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:20767 John R. Culleton wrote: > I have been using Linux since the days of Win 3.1. So I don't > know what goes on in the MSWin world any more. > > Specifically I am writing a guide for typesetting beginners. What > should I tell them is a good way to execute e.g., texexec from a > Windows environment? Many of them are afraid of the command > line. My instinct is to describe a Vim command such as > :!texexec % > or just give them a script to do that, but there may be a better > alternative. Thoughts? given that texmfstart.exe is in you binary path (there is a zip on our website, else you need to install ruby, associate .rb with calling ruby, and use texmfstart.rb) texmfstart texexec ... you can also run texmfstart --make texexec.pl which will give you a stub 'texexec.bat' which you can then put in your path Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------