hey Pablo, thanks a lot for pointing some things out. i finally managed to get mkiv working!!!

Am 09.03.2016 um 23:49 schrieb Pablo Rodriguez:
On 03/09/2016 10:57 PM, L.S.-Soc&Gam wrote:

in TeXnicCenter i added a new profile.
on (La)TeX register i have activated: Run LaTeX in this profile.

in the path to compiler field i entered:
F:\Sandbox\ConTeXt\tex\setuptex.bat & 
F:\Sandbox\ConTeXt\tex\texmf-win64\bin\texmfstart.exe

question: do i need both entries?

I don’t think so. The second entry isn’t required at all.

almost! the first one wasn't required. setuptex.bat only initializes the context folder sub-tree to the system. this is not necessary if ...\ConTeXt\tex\texmf-win64\bin\ has been added to the system path. in case of TeXnicCenter it might be not necessary at all, unless context.exe doesn't call any other executable or batch files. but even then it would look in its own folder first. i will check that out in the future.



in the command line field i entered:
texexec.rb --batch --nonstop --pdf --color "%bm" --synctex=-1

BibTeX is deactivated, MakeIndex isn't used either.

MakeIndex isn’t required in ConTeXt. (Indices aren’t generated using
MakeIndex in ConTeXt, afaIk.)

BibTeX may work, but there is a much better bibliographic module being
developed.

it's not that i would need any of these so i didn't bother about those options being deactivated in the first place anyway. but thanks for pointing out what those are there for.


      

        
well and it works. but not without ruby: why do i need ruby? i would use 
mkiv only if i could. i also worked with Hex color codes but then 
everything is black untill i add \setupcolor[hex] to the document. i 
read that this line is only needed in mkiv, so again i am wondering why 
i am obviously using mkii instead of mkiv...


      

      
The command line for MkIV should read "context source-file.tex". BTW,
ruby isn’t required for MkIV.

    

    

    here's the point why it works now: TeXnicCenter has a location field
    and a console command field.

    

    this is what i entered in the compiler LOCATION field before:

    F:\Sandbox\ConTeXt\tex\setuptex.bat &
    F:\Sandbox\ConTeXt\tex\texmf-win64\bin\texmfstart.exe

    

    like you pointed out before: setuptex.bat is not needed and
    the second path with texmfstart.exe is for i don't know what!?! but
    it always used mkii as compiler...

    anyway this is from a tutorial from the contextgarden wiki:
    http://wiki.contextgarden.net/TeXnicCenter

    that's why i got frustrated. the article was last updated 2012 and
    honestly i was quiet sure that's it's up to date.

    

    so i simply changed the compiler location to
    F:\Sandbox\ConTeXt\tex\texmf-win64\bin\context.exe

    and as you also pointed out i had to tell context which file. and
    therefor is the console command field. in my quotation above there
    is the following command: 

    
"%bm"

    

    i didn't realize that %bm is TeXnicCenter specific to handle over
    the name of the current project to the command line. it's that easy;
    one just has to know...^^

    

    so my location is now               
    F:\Sandbox\ConTeXt\tex\texmf-win64\bin\context.exe

    and command is                        %bm

    

    and it finally works!!! so again Pablo thanks for taking me to this.

    

    

      



      

        
the last question for now is: how can i stop pdfTeX.exe from warning me 
that no GlyphToUnicode entry has been inserted yet. i read somewhere 
that this can be ignored but nobody explains what this is and how it 
works. i just don't want to read this every time but fix it.
and what is meant with bad boxes? i read "Underfull \hbox (badness 
10000) in paragraph..." but don't know how to fix this.


      

      
Warnings fron pdftex will dissapear when you switch to MkIV :-).

"Underfull \hbox" may be caused by wrong hyphenation?

Would it be possible that you were compiling a German (or non-English text)?

In such case, please add "\mainlanguage[de]" in the first line of your
source document.


    

    yes, i had \language in my document before but i also added
    \mainlanguage too now. didn't know about this one, so thanks yet
    again.

    

    and you were right, i now don't have any errors or warnings anymore.
    but unfortunately now console also doesn't show the quantity of
    pages compiled anymore. i tried before with context.exe
    compiler location (the long described case above) but it always
    showed 0 pages so i thought nothing got compiled.^^ i didn't bother
    anymore and changed back to texmfstart.exe. maybe i should
    have checked the pdfs first. :D

    

    

    so yeah, i finally got ConTeXt mkiv up and running and can't wait to
    continue learning this beast. thanks a bunch Pablo. you helped me a
    lot.

    

    Greetings, Sebastian