From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/44111 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Aditya Mahajan Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: problem finding files (cygwin-related?) Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 09:58:18 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: References: <48D22023.3060200@jhnet.nl> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1221746725 18832 80.91.229.12 (18 Sep 2008 14:05:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 14:05:25 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Sep 18 16:06:22 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KgK9D-0007r5-M4 for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:06:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 901301FEB0; Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:05:15 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 20334-01-2; Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:04:17 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id F054B1FE4E; Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:04:16 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 021121FE95 for ; Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:04:09 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 20334-01 for ; Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:03:30 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from hackers.mr.itd.umich.edu (smtp.mail.umich.edu [141.211.14.81]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40FE21FE49 for ; Thu, 18 Sep 2008 15:58:20 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: FROM adi-laptop.local (c-68-40-40-226.hsd1.mi.comcast.net [68.40.40.226]) BY hackers.mr.itd.umich.edu ID 48D25E7A.CA88D.11483 ; 18 Sep 2008 09:58:18 -0400 In-Reply-To: <48D22023.3060200@jhnet.nl> User-Agent: Alpine 1.00 (DEB 882 2007-12-20) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:44111 Archived-At: On Thu, 18 Sep 2008, Jelle Huisman wrote: > Hi all, > > I try to help a colleague who has successfully installed ConTeXt using > the Windows installer and has started typesetting some documents. His > installation has problems finding files. Using something like "\input > ./path/to/file.tex" works OK, but this doesn't: > \externalfigure[./path/to/file.pdf] He gets a "figure ./path/to/file.pdf > can not be found"-error, while the same code works OK with my local > Windows in a VMware virtual machine. He happens to have cygwin installed > (I don't have it) and I was wondering whether that is the course of his > problems? How does cygwin interfere with finding the /path/to/the > picture file? Can I solve this by escaping the path in some special way? > Or would moving the picture to the current directory help? Is he trying to compile the file on cygwin or on cmd.exe? Was ruby installed for windows or for cygwin? Was another tex package installed on cygwin which may be interfering with context binaries (cygwin resets the paths when it is started). Aditya ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________