Re: updates without rsync

[Peter Rolf <indiego@gmx.net>]

richard.stephens@converteam.com schrieb:
> Lutz Haseloff <lutz.haseloff@googlemail.com> wrote on 29/05/2009 11:04:55:
>
>   
>> Hi Richard,
>>     
>
>   
>> 1. Install Ruby
>>
>> right
>>
>>
>> 2. Install Perl
>>
>> I think, Perl is not needed anymore.
>>
>> Download
>>     
> http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/install/minimals-snapshot-mswin.zip
>   
>> I unzip it in c:\, you get c:\context\texmf-context and some more
>>     
> directories
>   
>> 3. Download cont-tmf.zip and unzip contents to <installdir>
>>
>> make c:\context\texmf-context empty and unzip cont-tmf.zip into it
>>
>>
>> 4. Set environment variables:
>>      OSFONTDIR = C:\WINDOWS\Fonts
>>      TEXMF = <installdir>\scripts\context\stubs\mswin
>>      TEXMFCACHE = C:\TEMP
>>      TEXMFCNF = <installdir>\web2c
>>      TEXMFOS = ??????
>>      others ????
>>
>> no, go to c:\context an run setuptex.bat
>>
>> I have an icon on my desktop with:
>> C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe /K cd c:\context && .\setuptex.bat
>>
>>
>> 5. From command window, run installation scripts:
>>      mktexlsr
>>      luatools --generate
>>      luatools --selfupdate
>>      mtxrun   --selfupdate
>>      texexec --make (for mkii)
>>      context --make (for mkiv)
>>
>> open a terminal window
>> c: enter
>> cd context enter
>> setuptex enter
>>
>> the above commands should now work without errors
>>     
>
>   
>> 6. To generate new pdf run:
>>      context --pdf  myfile.tex
>>
>> You have to run setuptex.bat in c:\context before you can compile
>>     
> texfiles
>   
>> I automated this for the terminal and for the Scite Editor.
>>
>>
>> 7. Anything else I've missed ????
>>     
>
>   
>> That should do it
>>
>> For updating luatex, download ftp://akagi.ms.u-tokyo.ac.
>> jp/pub/TeX/win32/luatex-dev-w32.tar.bz2
>> and unzip the files in bin into c:\context\texmf-mswin\bin.
>> After that run context --make
>>
>>
>> You're welcome
>>
>> Greetings Lutz
>>     
>
> Thank-you very much for the above. Still a few problems though!
>
> I have installed it to C:\tools\context. Everything goes well until
> 'mktexlsr' which returns:
>  Cannot open C:/tools/context/texmf-project/ls-R to write.
>  Cannot open C:/tools/context/texmf-fonts/ls-R to write.
>  Cannot open C:/tools/context/texmf-extra/ls-R to write.
> because the folders do not exist. So I've created empty folders just in
> case and no more warnings!
>
> Then all goes well until 'context --pdf myfile.tex' which returns:
>  luatex.exe:
> c:/tools/context/texmf-cache/tuatex-cache/b7bcb6722e1fe509b85ff004c33e8274/formats/cont-en.fmt:
>   
tuatex-cache ?

copy&paste error or a typo in your environment variable?

btw: the option --pdf is no longer needed, as pdf is the default output 
format

Best wishes, Peter

>  No such file or directory
>  MtxRun | fatal error, code 1
>
> and 'texexec --pdf myfile.tex' returns:
>  c:\tools\context\texmf-mswin\bin\mtxrun.lua:8603: attempt to concatenate a
> nil value
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Richard
>
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