Re: ConTeXt installation and configuration on Win 10 x64

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

On 3/10/2016 2:53 AM, L.S.-Soc&Gam wrote:
> 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

context.exe is a stub (like mtxrun --script context) that loads a script 
mtx-context, initializes itself and then knows where to look for the 
rest so indeed you only need to set the path (which has a well defined 
place in the tex tree)

> 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
>
>
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