Re: Scite + non-global environbment variables

["Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini" <wwl@musensturm.de>]

Hallo Wolfgang,

> I have just started with Context, having been working with LaTeX
> (i.e. MikTeX / TeXnicCenter under WIndows) for quite a while.
> 
> I installed Contextminimal and Scite just as proposed as the easiest
> way to get started. As setting global environments variables would
> interfere with MikTeX, I switched off this option during the
> installation process (in the GUI Windows installation program).
> 
> But now I cannot easily start the compilation by pressing Crtl+1 in
> Scite, bcause this just calls the compiler and the environment
> variables are of course not set for this process. So which file do I
> have to change to make Scite call the batch file which sets the
> environments variables before it calls the compiler?
> 
> What global Context environment variables would possibly interfere
> with MikTeX?
> 
> Greatings from M?nster
> Wolfgang Hugemann

you should not have any global Context environment variables, because 
you call cscite.bat (setuptex.bat is called then before scite is 
started).
The problems I see are miktex executables which are in the PATH and 
can interfere with their context aequivalents.
How exactly are you starting scite?

Wolfgang
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