From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/25366 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ville Voipio Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Stand alone Context editing environment Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 10:35:09 +0200 Message-ID: <43CF4F3D.1020100@kpatents.com> References: <6CAAF400-4751-48BD-B2F5-470683910EE6@cox.net> 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 1137661755 5241 80.91.229.2 (19 Jan 2006 09:09:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 09:09:15 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Jan 19 10:09:11 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org 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 1EzVmx-0002px-Uw for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Jan 2006 10:09:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43D5D127DF; Thu, 19 Jan 2006 10:09:03 +0100 (CET) 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 19514-01; Thu, 19 Jan 2006 10:09:01 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6226B12816; Thu, 19 Jan 2006 09:35:13 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A59712816 for ; Thu, 19 Jan 2006 09:35:12 +0100 (CET) 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 18443-02 for ; Thu, 19 Jan 2006 09:35:10 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from mail.kpatents.com (mail.kpatents.com [195.170.128.67]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id 9302C1280E for ; Thu, 19 Jan 2006 09:35:10 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: (qmail 22588 invoked from network); 19 Jan 2006 08:35:09 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.100.157?) (192.168.100.157) by 192.168.100.1 with SMTP; 19 Jan 2006 08:35:09 -0000 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: <6CAAF400-4751-48BD-B2F5-470683910EE6@cox.net> 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-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:25366 Archived-At: > Can someone explain to me what this is? If it is downloaded and > unzipped, is it ready to go? Is there documentation of this particular > zip? Is there an editor in this zip configured and ready to go? Here is a step by step of how it should go (i.e. what I did with success): 1. Get perl and install it. I use ActivePerl: http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl/?mp=1 2. Get ruby and install it. I used: http://rubyinstaller.rubyforge.org/ 3. Check that perl and ruby work. Go to the command prompt (Start -> Run... "cmd") and execute the two commands: ruby --version perl --version These should give some information on ruby and perl. It really does not matter what they say, as long as the interpreters are found. 4. Download mswincontext.zip 5. Unzip the contents under c:\temp. You should get c:\temp\isoimage. 6. Create a new folder c:\context 7. Copy everything under c:\temp\isoimage into c:\context. There should be one folder (/usr) and a few files. 8. Open the folder c:\context and double-click cdemo.bat 9. Now you should see the editor open with a few files. Press F7 to compile one of the files. If everything goes smoothly, you are done. If not, read these instructions again carefully. If you cannot get it work, mail the list. A few notes on the procedure above: - perl and ruby per se have nothing to do with ConTeXt, ConTeXt just needs them. So, if you have another perl and ruby (e.g. through cygwin), they are fine as long as they are in the system path. If you can get through step #3 without doing #1 and #2, fine. - It is up to you to choose the location where you unzip the file in step #5, no magic there. Just that you know where the files are. - The actual location of the ConTeXt in step #6 tree does not matter. I use c:\context, but you might use something else. However, I would not use anything with a space in the name (e.g. c:\Program Files\context), as that may confuse things. (Has anybody tried lately?) - After you have verified everything works in step #9, you can toss cdemo.bat away and use cstart.bat to start everything. Make a link to it somewhere so that you can start the system by a shortcut or through the Start menu. Do not move the batch script anywhere, it has to be run in the root directory of the distribution (e.g. c:\context). - Make sure you have something Acrobatish installed, otherwise you won't see the results in step #9. Good luck! - Ville P.S. Is this information already in the Wiki? I found only some short notes, but this might be somehow important for beginners. I can put it there if neeeded.