* Re: How do Windows users call texexec etc.
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@ 2005-06-10 7:39 ` Roef Ragas
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From: Roef Ragas @ 2005-06-10 7:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
>Thanks to all who responded.
>
>So there seems to be three candidates, Scite, TeXnicenter and
>texmfstart. Does Scite require that the newbie user also install
>and configure Ruby? Or is there an exe available that just runs?
>I am reading the Steve Peter paper which seems to imply that Ruby
>is required.
>
>
Just download mswintex.zip from http://www.pragma-ade.nl/download-1.htm
Unzip, make a directory to drop everything into [I just made a
C:\Context], and make a link to
C:\Context\cstart.bat on your desktop: ready to go.
This Scite-version is very well integrated with Context. Building is
just a click [F7] away, Acrobat pops up automatically, etc.
Don't know if you have to install Perl, I already had that.
Good luck,
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* How do Windows users call texexec etc.
@ 2005-06-09 15:27 John R. Culleton
2005-06-09 19:58 ` Hans Hagen
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From: John R. Culleton @ 2005-06-09 15:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
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?
--
John Culleton
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* Re: How do Windows users call texexec etc.
2005-06-09 15:27 John R. Culleton
@ 2005-06-09 19:58 ` Hans Hagen
2005-06-09 21:02 ` Steve Peter
2005-06-09 21:05 ` Willi Egger
2 siblings, 0 replies; 8+ messages in thread
From: Hans Hagen @ 2005-06-09 19:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
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
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* Re: How do Windows users call texexec etc.
2005-06-09 15:27 John R. Culleton
2005-06-09 19:58 ` Hans Hagen
@ 2005-06-09 21:02 ` Steve Peter
2005-06-09 21:05 ` Willi Egger
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From: Steve Peter @ 2005-06-09 21:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
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On Jun 9, 2005, at 11:27 AM, John R. Culleton wrote:
> 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?
You can also have them set up one of the IDEs, like TeXnicCenter, to
do that. See my column for the PracTeX Journal at http://www.tug.org/
pracjourn/2005-2/peter/ for more info.
Steve
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* Re: How do Windows users call texexec etc.
2005-06-09 15:27 John R. Culleton
2005-06-09 19:58 ` Hans Hagen
2005-06-09 21:02 ` Steve Peter
@ 2005-06-09 21:05 ` Willi Egger
2005-06-09 19:43 ` John R. Culleton
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From: Willi Egger @ 2005-06-09 21:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
Dear John,
I would suggest, that those beginners would adopt Scite as their editor.
I find it an excellent editor for my purposes. The advantage is, that
this editor is very well integrated with Context. There is normally no
command window necessary! So if you give these people a minimal context
with Scite they surely are on the good track.
Kind regards Willi
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?
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* Re: How do Windows users call texexec etc.
2005-06-09 21:05 ` Willi Egger
@ 2005-06-09 19:43 ` John R. Culleton
2005-06-10 7:43 ` Hans Hagen
2005-06-10 21:04 ` Willi Egger
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From: John R. Culleton @ 2005-06-09 19:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: Willi Egger
On Thursday 09 June 2005 09:05 pm, Willi Egger wrote:
> Dear John,
>
> I would suggest, that those beginners would adopt Scite as their editor.
> I find it an excellent editor for my purposes. The advantage is, that
> this editor is very well integrated with Context. There is normally no
> command window necessary! So if you give these people a minimal context
> with Scite they surely are on the good track.
>
> Kind regards Willi
Thanks to all who responded.
So there seems to be three candidates, Scite, TeXnicenter and
texmfstart. Does Scite require that the newbie user also install
and configure Ruby? Or is there an exe available that just runs?
I am reading the Steve Peter paper which seems to imply that Ruby
is required.
--
John Culleton
The answers to all your publishing questions are found
in the excellent books listed in the word-famous shortlist!
http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf
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* Re: How do Windows users call texexec etc.
2005-06-09 19:43 ` John R. Culleton
@ 2005-06-10 7:43 ` Hans Hagen
2005-06-10 21:04 ` Willi Egger
1 sibling, 0 replies; 8+ messages in thread
From: Hans Hagen @ 2005-06-10 7:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: Willi Egger
John R. Culleton wrote:
> So there seems to be three candidates, Scite, TeXnicenter and
> texmfstart. Does Scite require that the newbie user also install
> and configure Ruby? Or is there an exe available that just runs?
> I am reading the Steve Peter paper which seems to imply that Ruby
> is required.
texmfstart is just the start program for anything the texmf tree
ruby is indeed needed (in the near future texexec and texutil will be replaced
by ruby scripts; the rest of the script si already ruby)
Hans
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* Re: How do Windows users call texexec etc.
2005-06-09 19:43 ` John R. Culleton
2005-06-10 7:43 ` Hans Hagen
@ 2005-06-10 21:04 ` Willi Egger
1 sibling, 0 replies; 8+ messages in thread
From: Willi Egger @ 2005-06-10 21:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
Hi John,
AFAIK you need to install Ruby and Perl.
Cheers Willi
John R. Culleton wrote:
> On Thursday 09 June 2005 09:05 pm, Willi Egger wrote:
>
>>Dear John,
>>
>>I would suggest, that those beginners would adopt Scite as their editor.
>>I find it an excellent editor for my purposes. The advantage is, that
>>this editor is very well integrated with Context. There is normally no
>>command window necessary! So if you give these people a minimal context
>>with Scite they surely are on the good track.
>>
>>Kind regards Willi
>
>
>
> Thanks to all who responded.
>
> So there seems to be three candidates, Scite, TeXnicenter and
> texmfstart. Does Scite require that the newbie user also install
> and configure Ruby? Or is there an exe available that just runs?
> I am reading the Steve Peter paper which seems to imply that Ruby
> is required.
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