Re: New Installation under miktex, not working

[Todd DeVries <devrtodd@isu.edu>]

Thanks to all who responded  to my question yesterday. Not sure why,
but documents are compiling and formats are found. Perhaps I'll do a
stand-alone install to make updates easier in the future.

Todd

On Mon, 16 Jan 2006 10:35:29 -0500 (EST), you wrote:

><--- On Jan 16, Mojca Miklavec wrote --->
>
>> Todd DeVries wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm attempting to install context under miktex 2.4. I've updated the
>>> format files and followed other instructions as per the contextgarden
>>> discussions. I'm probably missing something really obvious and would
>>> appreciate any help offered.  I receive this output when running the
>>> following commands:
>>
>> I don't know why I keep using MikTeX (there are problems all the time,
>> but it is [or at least it should be] easy to update and is already
>> installed on most computers here), just some points:
>
>I use latex a lot, and for windows+latex Miktex is one of the best 
>distribution. Most of the packages get installed on the fly and it can 
>be updated easily. Once you get used to it, it is hard to try other 
>latex distributions.
>
>> - texexec --make --all doesn't work anyway (well, it works, but it
>> forgets to copy the files to the proper place)
>
>It also happens with me and the solution that you describe below 
>works. You need to update the formats from Miktex Options. I *guess* 
>the reason texexec fails to place the format in proper place is 
>because it simply does not know where the localtexmf tree is. I am not 
>sure if it has a way of finding it out without the user specifying an 
>environment variable.
>
>
>> If you want to make formats, go to MikTeX options -> TeX formats ->
>> choose cont-en -> Edit ...
>> Here are the values that I have (it may be that I changed any of them
>> manually, I don't remember):
>> Format Name: cont-en
>> Compiler: pdfe-TeX (Extended Mode)
>> Input File Name: cont-en.tex
>> Output File Name: cont-en.efmt
>> Exclude has to be unchecked
>>
>> - MikTeX updates the formats automatically (if it does). If it
>> doesn't, the "standard ConTeXt" ways fail anyway and searching for
>> files doesn't always work either
>
>
>> - I often have problems after upgrading ConTeXt, but I can hardly tell
>> you what to do. I try all the different tricks (updating filename
>> database, building the formats, ...) without any success, but after
>> two days it simply works again by some black magic.
>
>
>Here is what I do (I am not sure even if this is the correct thing to 
>do, but seems to work)
>
>Make a tree called pragma-texmf. Download cont-tmf.zip and 
>cont-fnt.zip and unzip them in pragma-texmf. Go to MikTex options and 
>add pragma-texmf as a tree. Move it up so that it is the first tree. 
>This way whenever any program searches for a context related file, it 
>finds it in the pragma-tree. Now go and recreate the formats. 
>Everything works (well except mptopdf the program, but that is not 
>critical for me). To keep in sync with context's pace of development, 
>simply download the entire cont-tmf tree whenever a newer version is 
>released. I have not managed to convince texsync to just download 
>texmf tree, and I do not really care about downloading a big zip.
>
>This makes me feel whether it is a good idea to have miktex and 
>context for windows (from the pragma site) in parallel. I use cygwin 
>and context for windows only seems to work from cmd.exe and not 
>bash.exe. I tried to convert setuptex.sh to setuptex.bash, but could 
>not get to work. So, I settled with the method of downloading the 
>relevant trees and things work (by black magic, as you said)
>
>Aditya
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