Re: Miktex

[David Arnold <dwarnold45@suddenlink.net>]

Mojca,

I a hopeless mac user at home now. I used to be pretty good with  
miktex, even working with hans to test the settings that now exist in  
the texexec.rme file, back in the days when we made that an .ini file  
in Miktex. But no longer.

It's our school machines I am trying to configure, PC's with Windows  
XP. I got to a point today where I selected the formats tab in the  
Miktex Settings gui, and tried to build cont-en there. It objected  
that it could not find cont-en.ini in tex/something or other so I  
tried moving cont-en.ini from the context distribution to tex/ 
something or other and updating the filename database to no avail.

I'll give your idea of no spaces a try tomorrow. Meanwhile if you can  
think of anything less drastic, as I have to do this on 20 different  
machines, ....

Thanks so much.

David.


On Sep 30, 2008, at 5:15 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 1:57 AM, David Arnold wrote:
>> Mojca,
>> I saw your note on blog.miktex.org:
>> If you still want to run ConTeXt on MikTeX while it has been  
>> removed, you
>> may create a file texmfstart.bat in C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7 
>> \miktex\bin
>> with the content:
>> @echo off
>> ruby "C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\scripts\context\ruby 
>> \texmfstart.rb" "%*"
>> and extract www.pragma-ade.com/context/current/cont-tmf.zip into C: 
>> \Program
>> Files\MiKTeX 2.7. Then, update filename database and generate  
>> formats, and
>> everything should work again.
>> Mojca
>> I followed this advice, installed texmfstart.bat, unzipped cont- 
>> tmf.zip
>> properly, updated the filename database, then got stuck.
>> At the dos prompt:
>> $ texmfstart --help
>> Worked just fine. However,
>> $ texmfstart texexec --help
>> Did not work. What am I missing? If I recall I'll need to do:
>> $ texmfstart texexec --make --all
>> Or some such thing.
>
> Can you please try what happens if you install MikTeX in some folder
> with no spaces in base path?
>
> Mojca
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