Re: TeXshop

[Willi Egger <w.egger@boede.nl>]

Dear Otared,

many thanks for your explanation. - It works now as a charm!

I see, that I was at the beginning almost there. The problem was  
apparently, that I did not set the executable bit.

Thanks again

Willi
On Oct 22, 2008, at 3:25 PM, Otared Kavian wrote:

> On 22 oct. 08, at 12:57, Willi Egger wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> is there anybody who has TeXshop running with the COnTeXt minimals?
>>
>> I tried to make a new engine which looks up to now as stated her
>> under. however I get an error message:
>>
>
> Hi again Willi,
>
> If you have installed ConTeXt-Miimal for MacOS X, the in principle you
> don't need at all to set environment variables as the ones you  
> mention.
> On the contrary according to my experience, you SHOULD NOT set any
> such variables…
> Therefore in a Terminal window you should say:
> 	env | grep TEX
> and then say (for instance for TEXMFCNF)
> 	unset TEXMFCNF
> and so on for the other variables if they seem to be unwanted. Also oe
> should remove the "export…" variables from the .bashrc or any other
> shell files.
>
> This is how I installed ConTeXt-Minimal and how I use it under
> TeXShop. (I have a MacBook Pro running under macOS X 10.5.5).
>
> Installing and using the Minimal under Mac OS X in Ten Steps…
>
> 1) I created a folder named "context-minimal": this can sit anywhere,
> but in my case I put it in a partition of my hard drive names  
> "OK-10.4".
> So the full path to that folder is
> 	/Volumes/OK-10.4/context-minimal
>
> 2) In a Terminal window I said
> 	cd /Volumes/OK-10.4/context-minimal
>
> 3) Then in the same Terminal window I said
> 	rsync -ptv rsync://contextgarden.net/minimals/setup/first-setup.sh .
> Please pay attention to the final "." after "first-setup.sh"…
> I got the file "first-setup.sh" in the folder.
>
> 4) Then I said in the Terminal window
> 	sh first-setup.sh
> This would take some time (depending on the speed of the Internet
> connection) and then I obtained two folders (or directories) named
> 	bin/
> 	tex/
> and one morefile named "status-of-update.lua".
>
> 5) The folder "tex" contains four folders named
> 	texmf/
> 	texmf-context/
> 	texmf-cache/
> 	texmf-osx-intel/
> and four files named
> 	setuptex
> 	setuptex.csh
> 	setuptex.bat
> 	setuptex.tmf
> The folder "texmf-osx-intel" contains among other things a folder
> named "bin" in which the binaries are located.
> The file "setuptex" is the file which upon execution under a shell
> command sets the TEXROOT variable needed for the binary "context"
>
> 6) If I want to typeset the file "basic-test.tex" with my new
> installation, I have to set up once per session the TEXROOT variable
> by saying in my Terminall window:
> 	source /Volumes/OK-10.4/context-minimal/tex/setuptex
> or alternatively
> 	.  /Volumes/OK-10.4/context-minimal/tex/setuptex
> Please pay attention to the dot "." and the space after the dot at the
> beginning of the above line…
> After that in the Terminal window (assuming that I am in the folder
> where the file "basic-test.tex" is present) I just say
> 	context basic-test.tex
> and the file is typeset with mkiv.
>
> 7) If I want to put some macros, or files used frequently as \input, I
> may put them in the folder:
> 	/Volumes/OK-10.4/context-minimal/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/user
>
> 8) Also I may put more fonts in the folder
> 	/Volumes/OK-10.4/context-minimal/tex/texmf/fonts
> in appropriate places (I did this for the fonts rsfs which were not
> present in the minimals). However after this I had to run again  
> "first-
> setup.sh" as above.
>
> 9) Once the minimal was installed on my machine, in order to use it
> with TeXShop, I created a file named "ConTeXt-Minimal.engine"
> containing only the four lines:
> 	#!/bin/bash
>
> 	source /Volumes/OK-10.4/context-minimal/tex/setuptex
> 	context "$1"
>
> This file is put in the directory
> 	/Users/kavian/Library/TeXShop/Engines
> and must have the execute bit, that is one must say in a Terminal
> window:
> 	cd /Users/kavian/Library/TeXShop/Engines
> 	chmod 755 ConTeXt-Minimal.engine
>
> 10) Now in TeXShop I can add the following line at the beginning of
> any file I want to typeset with the Minimal:
> 	%!TEX TS-program = ConTeXt-Minimal
> or else I may choose "ConTeXt-Minimal" from the pop-up menu which
> appears below the window bar of my TeX file.
>
> I hope that the above would be useful for you and other persons.
> Since on the Wiki there are already many things on the issue, I didn't
> dare to add a new page…
> Mojca, if you read this, can you please tell me whether I can add a
> new item on the pages you have set up?
>
> Best regards: OK
>
>> MtxRun | unknown script 'context.lua' or 'mtx-context.lua'
>>
>> My interpretation is, that underway the path to the lua scripts is
>> 'forgotten'
>>
>> Kind regards
>>
>> Willi
>>
>> #!/bin/bash
>> #PATH="$PATH: /Applications/lua/tex"
>> #. /Applications/lua/tex/setuptex "/Applications/lua/tex"
>> export PATH=``$PATH:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/Applications/lua/
>> tex/texmf-osx-intel/bin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/''
>> export TEXROOT=/Applications/lua/tex
>> export TEXMFPROJECT=$TEXROOT/texmf-project
>> export TEXMFLOCAL=$TEXROOT/texmf-local
>> export TEXMFVAR=$TMP/texmf-var
>> export VARTEXMF=$TEXMFVAR
>> export TEXMFOS=$TEXROOT/texmf-osx-intel/bin
>> export TEXMFCONTEXT=$TEXROOT/texmf-context
>> export TEXMFCACHE=$TEXROOT/texmf-cache
>> export TEXFORMATS=$TEXMFOS/web2c/$engine
>> export TEXMFFONTS=$TEXROOT/texmf-fonts
>> export CTXMINIMAL=yes
>> export MPMEMS=$TEXMFOS/web2c/$engine
>> export HOMETEXMF=/nonexist
>> export RUBYLIB=``$RUBYLIB:$TEXMFCONTEXT/scripts/context/ruby``''
>> export LUATEXDIR=$TEXMFCONTEXT/scripts/context/lua
>> export TEXMFCNF=``$TEXROOT/texmf{-local,-context,}/web2c''
>> export TEXMFMAIN=$TEXROOT/texmf
>> export TEXMF={$TEXMFPROJECT,$TEXMFFONTS,$TEXMFLOCAL,$TEXMFOS,
>> $TEXMFCONTEXT,$TEXMFMAIN}
>> export TEXMFDBS={$TEXMFPROJECT,$TEXMFFONTS,$TEXMFLOCAL,$TEXMFOS,
>> $TEXMFCONTEXT,$TEXMFMAIN}
>> unset CTXDEVTXPATH CTXDEVMPPATH CTXDEVMFPATH
>> unset CTXDEVPLPATH CTXDEVRBPATH CTXDEVPYPATH CTXDEVJVPATH
>> unset TEXINPUTS MPINPUTS MFINPUTS
>>
>> context ''$1''
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