From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/44165 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Martin Scholz Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Context on Miktex Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 02:47:20 +0200 Organization: Scholz Online Message-ID: References: Reply-To: martin@scholz-net.org, 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 1221958176 8938 80.91.229.12 (21 Sep 2008 00:49:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 00:49:36 +0000 (UTC) To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sun Sep 21 02:50:32 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 1KhD9k-0008VA-1o for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sun, 21 Sep 2008 02:50:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0168E1FCE5; Sun, 21 Sep 2008 02:49:26 +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 31464-04-2; Sun, 21 Sep 2008 02:48:36 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 042D01FF04; Sun, 21 Sep 2008 02:48:36 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B01FF1FEEB for ; Sun, 21 Sep 2008 02:48:22 +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 01030-01 for ; Sun, 21 Sep 2008 02:47:45 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 647861FF0F for ; Sun, 21 Sep 2008 02:47:44 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KhD71-0000qq-Ih for ntg-context@ntg.nl; Sun, 21 Sep 2008 00:47:43 +0000 Original-Received: from 92.250.198.52 ([92.250.198.52]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 21 Sep 2008 00:47:43 +0000 Original-Received: from martin by 92.250.198.52 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 21 Sep 2008 00:47:43 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 77 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 92.250.198.52 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Windows/20080708) In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 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:44165 Archived-At: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 David Arnold schrieb: > All, > > On http://blog.miktex.org/post/2008/05/ConTeXt-support.aspx I read that > Miktex version of Context is broken. I also read Mojca's workaround, > pasted below. Has anyone tried this and does it work? Any conflicts or > difficulties? > > Second question: Can I get mptopdf to work in the Miktex tree without > installing Context? > > Mojca's workaround: > > May 31. 2008 00:37 > > > If you still want to run ConTeXt on MikTeX while it has been removed, > you may create a file texmfstart.bat in C:\Program Files\MiKTeX > 2.7\miktex\bin with the content: > > > @echo off > ruby "C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\scripts\context\ruby\texmfstart.rb" "%*" > > > and extract www.pragma-ade.com/context/current/cont-tmf.zip > into C:\Program > Files\MiKTeX 2.7. Then, update filename database and generate formats, > and everything should work again. > > Mojca > > Mojca > > > David Arnold > College of the Redwoods > Mathematics Department > Eureka, CA 95501 > (707) 476-4222 > http://online.redwoods.edu/instruct/darnold/ > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > 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 > ___________________________________________________________________________________ Hi David, I had the same problem and now totaly switched from miktex to texlive. Texlive has context in a new version in it and up to date a online installer so that you only need about 2 MB for the first download and the rest will come by launching the installer. My advice would be to switch away from miktex to texlive it now has the same onlineupdatefunktion as miktex. Greetings Martin -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFI1ZmYyi7jREQ9xVsRAg7hAJoC0Tess/lXGkmSNBrpzM82IMUWegCgg+Zf 14VhnMx9Yqr16mMaEtQZRLU= =xtMm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________