From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/52123 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: texworks with context on linux Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2009 23:02:35 +0200 Message-ID: <4A7B44EB.8080206@wxs.nl> References: <96b16f4d0908042346u5c532902m239e7b0892d05147@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1249592551 27024 80.91.229.12 (6 Aug 2009 21:02:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 21:02:31 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Aug 06 23:02:23 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MZA6R-0006QB-6c for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Aug 2009 23:02:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4FDBC9ADD; Thu, 6 Aug 2009 23:02:18 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id IFEgJtVsyrv7; Thu, 6 Aug 2009 23:02:13 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82823C9B41; Thu, 6 Aug 2009 23:02:13 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id F24CCC9B41 for ; Thu, 6 Aug 2009 23:02:11 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id GPLciVwArXIv for ; Thu, 6 Aug 2009 23:02:00 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail.pragma-ade.net (dsl-083-247-100-017.solcon.nl [83.247.100.17]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A79D9C9ADD for ; Thu, 6 Aug 2009 23:02:00 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.100] (unverified [10.100.1.100]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.9e) with ESMTP id 31659-1840426 for ; Thu, 06 Aug 2009 23:02:00 +0200 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (Windows/20090605) In-Reply-To: <96b16f4d0908042346u5c532902m239e7b0892d05147@mail.gmail.com> X-Originating-IP: 10.100.1.100 X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-1 X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 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 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:52123 Archived-At: Alex Lubberts wrote: > Hi, > > Yesterday I wanted to try out texworks for editing and typesetting my > context documents. I installed texworks from the ubuntu launchpad ppa > since '--goodies=texworks' doesn't work on linux-64, yet. > > Then I ran into a few problems: > > * The script mtx-texworks.lua wasn't able to start texworks because > "unable to locate texworks". In the loop that's searching all the > binpaths I put in 'logs.simple("%s",p)' and found out that binpaths > only consists of one element: the complete PATH variable. I guess it > means that there's something wrong with the function file.split_path, > but I don't understand what's happening there. When I replaced the > loop with 'p="/usr/bin/texworks"' texworks started as expected. hm, strange, but just patching the file.split_path function is kin dof dangerous .. mayb the path separator is not identified well > * However the typesetting engines were not correctly set up. Texworks > (at least on linux) seems to be looking for a file TeXworks.ini. The > one in the minimals distribution is called texworks.ini. Renaming this > solved it... has to do with the fact that these are user prefs and stored in a system dependent way (only windows can be configured); this will chang ein future versions of texworks > * ... almost. In the TeXworks.ini file I also had to replace all > occurunces of 'mtxrun.cmd' (doesn't work on linux, is this correct for > Windows?) with 'mtxrun'. needs testing > I wish I could help solve these points, but since I'm not much of a > programmer I cannot solve the first issue, and the other are just a > matter of renaming/replacing?? 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