Wolfgang Zillig wrote:

>1. when starting scite i get an error: 
>attempt to call a string value
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>>Lua: error occurred while loading startup script
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>I assume this is due to "import scite-ctx" and in that file there is
>"ext.lua.startup.script=$(SciteDefaultHome)/scite-ctx.lua" which I don't
>have.
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>My solution: I commended "import scite-ctx" out
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ah, i see, i forget to copy the lua script into the zip; attached

watch the lof pane for some info at startup

(spell checking in tex and xml files only works when you have at the top 
of the file something

% language=uk

as well as a spell check list defined in the properties files [one word 
per line in such a file])

>2. When I try to compile a file then I get the message: ">texmfstart
>newtexexec.rb --autopdf --pdf to_do.tex
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>>The system cannot find the file specified." 
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>When I try the command:"texmfstart newtexexec.rb --autopdf --pdf
>to_do.tex" in the command line I get the file compiled without any
>problems. I absolutely don't have an idea whats going wrong here.
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looks like some file association problem; the is a zip with a binary of 
texmfstart at the web site

did you set up a file association?

FTYPE LuaScript=c:\data\system\lua\bin\lua.exe %%1 %%*
ASSOC .lua=LuaScript

>3. all text and context commands are in black and white. Is there a
>chance to get color back?
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looks like some messed up properties file ... are you sure that there is 
no conflicting local prop file?

Hans