Re: new tex toy & new manual

[Nigel King <king@dircon.co.uk>]

Hans
http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/texmfstart.rb
This file seems no longer to be in this location
-- 
Nigel

> From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
> Reply-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
> Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 16:41:18 +0100
> To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
> Subject: [NTG-context] new tex toy
> 
> Hi,
> 
> One of the problems with the texmf tree is to get the right
> scripts/documents launched. On linux, runperl/runruby are used for that, on
> windows there was runperl.exe which is now irun.exe. Those scripts/apps
> work ok under most circumstances but not all (especially not when one has
> multiple trees and multiple instances of the tools).
> 
> So ... a few weeks ago I made a small tool:
> 
> http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/texmfstart.rb           : for those who
> have ruby in their path
> http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/texmfstart.exe          : for those who
> don't have ruby installed and are on windows
> http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/mtexmfstart.pdf : for those who
> are interested
> 
> This tool permits things like (on windows): "texmfstart --browser
> examplap.pdf" but also calls like: "texmfstart texexec.pl optional
> arguments" and alike. Several search strategies are applied (see manual).
> The few of you who have seen the integrated context environment (around
> scite) already may have used this tool indirectly. I didn't yet test this
> new gimmick on linux but will do that asap.
> 
> The next thing that will be posted is 'texsync' which will synchronize your
> local minimal tex and/or context tree (or part of it, or (part) of the
> documentation) with the current distribution. (i'm playing with that right
> now).
> 
> Hans
> 
> 
> 
> 
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