From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/13862 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "George N. White III" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: TeX Live 2003 miseries. Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 08:31:25 -0300 Organization: Bedford Institute of Oceanography Sender: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Message-ID: References: <6.0.0.22.2.20031016023533.02a85bf0@server-1> Reply-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1066304348 10561 80.91.224.253 (16 Oct 2003 11:39:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 11:39:08 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Thu Oct 16 13:39:06 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from ref.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.13] helo=ref.ntg.nl) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AA6TC-0001Z3-00 for ; Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:39:06 +0200 Original-Received: from ref.ntg.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4594B10B25; Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:39:01 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: from main.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.224.249]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F5D210B20 for ; Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:31:40 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AA6Ly-0002dU-00 for ; Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:31:38 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: ntg-context@ref.ntg.nl Original-Received: from sea.gmane.org ([80.91.224.252]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AA6Lx-0002dM-00 for ; Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:31:37 +0200 Original-Received: from news by sea.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AA6Lx-0002We-00 for ; Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:31:37 +0200 Original-Lines: 29 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-X-Sender: gwhite@montigo.bio.dfo.ca In-Reply-To: <6.0.0.22.2.20031016023533.02a85bf0@server-1> Errors-To: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:13862 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:13862 On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, Hans Hagen wrote: > At 01:11 15/10/2003, you wrote: > > >1. the perl scripts were confused by the embedded spaces in the default > >"c:\Program Files\.." install path. In general, ConTeXt does not play > >well for paths that have embedded spaces. > > http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/mswintex (just runsetuptex,bat in the > path where it is) > http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/linuxtex (run setuptex and generate formats) > > is the minimum that you need for context. For windows the trick is in using > irun in the right way, i.e. either use a full path spec or something > relative like ../../whatever (which is what i've done there); i didn't test > it for "program files" The other place where spaces cause problems is in the user's "HOME" directory. TeXLive looks in %HOME%/texmf, and texexec creates a texfilename.tmp with a reference to %HOME%. On my brief foray into WinXP the default HOME location had a space. We are expecting a bunch of Win9x users (currently with 4allTeX) to be converted to WinXP using a departmental standard configuration, and I need a full TeX that will play nicely with that (I did suggest that our users would be better off running linux in vmware). -- George N. White III Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada