Re: Setting up TeXworks

[Jean-Pierre Delange <adeimantos@free.fr>]

Hi Thomas,

1. There is no great issue to install ConTeXt Standalone in /usr/local/context; it's only a simple advice that I gave to put context in such a directory as /home/Document (e.g. : on Linux Ubuntu) in order to make things clear for beginners; and you can install it in /opt/context if you want it. I have installed CTX in /home/MyComputer/context
, because the whole documentation and files I want to use are near. Under Windows, ConTeXt is installed in C:\users\MyComputer\Documents\context. 
As you know, ConTeXt Standalone is a bundle which is self-sufficient (it doesn't need any extra-package, except some more fonts). I don't have tried yet to work with ConTeXt and Perl/Python, because my goal is to understand ConTeXt step by step in order to write a documentation in French (and I am starting from the beginning), starting by the easiest way to code a document and ending by some project structures.

2. commands like 'context --generate' and 'context --make' , typed after this previous one: '. setuptex', allow to build all the trees that you need thereafter, including databases. After that, you have to set your environment variables (in PATH). If you don't do that, you'll see your Linux system complain with such enigmatic formulas as 'ConTeXt is not installed', or 'mtxrun is not installed. You can installed it with apt-get install mtxrun', etc. 

JP


-----Mail Original -----
> De: "Thomas Fehige" <thomas@fehige.de>
> À: ntg-context@ntg.nl

>experienced in the Linux world either. My French is honed on cooking 
>recipes rather than computing and coding, but I was able to follow your 
>page allright.
>
>1. I don't have my standalone ConTeXt tree anywhere under /home/... but 
>in /usr/local/context/..., as suggested on the wiki. Would that make a 
>difference?
>
>2. What do "--generate" and "--make" do? I remember having run them at 
>one occasion or other, but to no avail as to the TeXworks problem. 
>Shouldn't they be run by the installation script anyway?
>
>I had managed the fonts database stuff, thanks to the wiki and some 
>trial and error. It was time I learned about environment variables in 
>Linux and Xfce anyway.

>Cheers -- Thomas

Am 17.05.2016 um 15:22 schrieb Jean-Pierre Delange:
> And don't forget to do this before coding :
> 1) cd /home/[...]/context/tex/. setuptex
> This command answers this : "Setting "/home/JohnDoe/context/tex" as ConTeXt root."
> 2) Then : cd .../context/tex/texmf-win64 (or linux64) with a x64 computer
> 3) Then type :
> context --generate
> and type : context --make
>
> 4) Finally, if you add fonts (in /usr/share/fonts, or $HOME/.fonts), don't forget to reload the font database (in the same depositery as 3)); the command is as follow :
> mtxrun --script fonts --reload
> In order to see which fonts are installed on your system:
> mtxrun --script fonts --list --all
> To search a font (like didot) :
> mtxrun --script fonts --list --pattern=*didot* --all
>
> All these commands are the same on windows/linux/OS X
>
> More information in French here :
> https://fr.wikibooks.org/wiki/ConTeXt
>
> Hope that ich sende nicht Eulen nach Athens !
> JP
>
> ----- Mail original -----
> De: "Thomas Fehige" <thomas@fehige.de>
> À: ntg-context@ntg.nl
> Envoyé: Mardi 17 Mai 2016 14:39:27
> Objet: Re: [NTG-context] Setting up TeXworks
>
> Whew, I've got it running, finally.
>
> For some reason, TeXworks needs to tell mtxrun explicitly where its
> texmf-tree is located. Meaning, an additional argument is required in
> TeXworks's starter setup, which now looks like this:
>
> name: ConTeXt MkIV
> command: mtxrun
> arguments:
>       --tree=/usr/local/context/tex        <-- this is the one!
>       --autogenerate
>       --script
>       context
>       $fullname
>
> In the "Paths to TeX and friends" list I have
>
>       /usr/local/context/texmf-linux-64
>       /usr/local/context/bin
>
> as the top two entries.
>
> I don't know what exactly is going on here, so I don't feel confident to
> add this to the wiki, but maybe someone else does and will.
>
> Thanks for listening -- Thomas
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