On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 3:54 PM, <hwitloc@gmail.com> wrote:

> Yes I saw the Windows version of Context mentioned and read it, but the
> documentation is,
> in this case, wrong or not fully correct.  This is because I am now using
> Context which comes is included in the TexLive distribution, selected with
> Unix like operating systems.  No bat files or other ancillary code or
> invokations are necessary.
>
>  Texlive's Context program would probably not run directly on Microsoft
> Windows O.S.
>
hm, my experience is the opposite: texlive context runs on Windows, but I
don't use it because the standalone also works under Windows.
(I use the texlive for all the rest, btw).

I believe that the documentation can be expanded to cover using a Context
> on Cygwin directly and not the Microsoft port which requires the usage of
> strange Microsoft pathnames, with C:\ and \ seperators.
>
> Using context on cygwin for cygwin may only have been done in TexLive for
> Unix like systems, but I'd like to use and test on the bleeding edge MKIV.
>  But, that proves that it can be done.  I just don't know what was done.
>
> In this case I think it's better to use the standalone directly on Windows.

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luigi