Hi Alasdair,

i fiddled with SciTE some years ago and ended with a file myproperties.properties in the programdata\scite directory.

In this file i set the fonts and my context command as follows:
# Codepages
# UTF-8
code.page=65001
output.code.page=65001
# Byte
# code.page=0

position.left=25
position.top=25
position.width=1870
position.height=1000

font.base=font:Consolas,size:15
font.monospace=$(font.base)
font.errorfont=$(font.base)
font.comment=$(font.base)
font.text=$(font.base)
font.text.comment=$(font.base)
font.embedded.base=$(font.base)
font.embedded.comment=$(font.base)
font.vbs=$(font.base)

command.1.$(file.patterns.context)=cmd /c context $(FileNameExt) && start sumatraPDF $(FileName).pdf -reuse-instance
The last line of SciTEGlobal.properties is
import myproperties

This works ok for me.


Greetings Lutz

Am 30. Juli 2020 03:57:26 MESZ schrieb Alasdair McAndrew <amca01@gmail.com>:
Thanks again, I've fiddled with SciTE, but when I attempted to compile a context file, I was told that "texexec" wasn't in my path, so somehow, somewhere, I must have picked up an old version of the compile command.  Also, there doesn't seem to be an easy way of getting SciTE to use a monospaced font.  I've fiddled with the customization files to no avail whatsoever.  I think I have Atom already, but surely there should be some easy way of getting other text editors working?  

On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 1:13 AM Henning Hraban Ramm <texml@fiee.net> wrote:

> Am 29.07.2020 um 14:19 schrieb Alasdair McAndrew <amca01@gmail.com>:
>
> Thank you very much, but in fact that script file "vscode-context.cmd" really just contains the same command for installing extensions as I quoted above - and so produces the same errors.  Maybe I'll go back to trying SciTe - I gave it a bit of a go, but wasn't successful.  Of all the information on the context-wiki, and the Pragma webpage - where would I go to find the most up-to-date information about configuring an editor to work with ConTeXt in Windows?

You could try Atom and install the ConTeXt module from github.com/massifrg/language-context.
Original language-context is outdated, but upstream didn’t react to mails from Massi and me.
This version also isn’t perfect, but I’m using and occasionally updating it. (I should re-base it on the current work done for the wiki.) There’s also still no run command.

Additionally you should install
- language-latex (contains plain TeX commands)
- language-lua
- atom-ide-terminal (for running ConTeXt in place)
- file-icons (only icon package that contains TeX icons)
- pdf-view (not very good, but good enough for simple cases)

Best, Hraban

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