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From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: Newbie needs help getting started
Date: Fri, 08 May 2015 19:23:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <554CF11E.2060506@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <554CEBA7.5080304@gmail.com>

On 5/8/2015 7:00 PM, Johan Råde wrote:
> On 2015-05-04 14:49, Johan Råde wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm trying to get ConTeXt to run on my Windows machine (Windows 7 SP1).
>> I already had MiKTeX installed on the machine.
>
> To be more specific, I want to able to run both LaTeX and ConText from
> TexWorks. The following works. (I followed Andres Conrado's advise to
> use a bat file.)
>
> 1. Install MiKTeX (using the Windows installer)
>
> 2. Downloaded context-setup-mswin.zip.
>     Unzip.
>     Copy to C:\context
>     Run the command
>         C:\context\first-setup.bat --modules=all
>
> 3. Create a bat file C:\context1.bat with the following content:
>
> call C:\context\tex\setuptex
> context %*
>
> 4. Start TexWorks
>     Go to File -> Preferences -> Typesetting.
>     In the "Processing tools" list, select ConTeXt(LuaTeX).
>     Press Edit.
>     In the program field, replace context.tex by C:\context1.bat

if mtxrun.exe is in your path, then you can just run:

mtxrun --autogenerate --script context %*

and don't need to setup anything

Hans

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  reply	other threads:[~2015-05-08 17:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-04 12:49 Johan Råde
2015-05-04 14:25 ` Pablo Rodriguez
2015-05-05  8:26   ` Johan Råde
2015-05-04 15:14 ` Mojca Miklavec
2015-05-04 16:37   ` Hans Hagen
2015-05-08 17:00 ` Johan Råde
2015-05-08 17:23   ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2015-05-09  6:25     ` Johan Råde
2015-05-06  1:23 Andres Conrado

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