WinEdt and Context

WinEdt and Context

[Gerard Hermans]

Hello,
can anybody advise me how to use/install Context on a
windows environment with MikTeX 2.1 and WinEdt 5?

In ConteXt manuals it is stated that Perl needs to be
installed, which I don't have. Also the command texexec
<filename> is mentioned but this does not work as a macro
from WinEdt (I added c:\texmf\context\texmf to the PATH
variable).

Thanks for your ideas.
Gerard Hermans

Re: WinEdt and Context

[Berend de Boer]

"Gerard Hermans" <gh@gerard-hermans.demon.nl> writes:

> In ConteXt manuals it is stated that Perl needs to be
> installed, which I don't have. Also the command texexec

Search the net for ActivePerl, they have fine Windows versions. Easy
to install.

-- 
Groetjes,

Berend. (-:

Re: WinEdt and Context

[Frans Goddijn]

> Search the net for ActivePerl, they have fine Windows versions. Easy
> to install.

I use thus URL to find perl:

http://www.cs.uu.nl/people/piet/

more specifically

http://www.cs.uu.nl/people/piet/software.html#Perl

Re: WinEdt and Context

[Henning Hraban Ramm]

Am Dienstag 01 Januar 2002 20:38 schrieb Gerard Hermans:
> In ConteXt manuals it is stated that Perl needs to be
> installed, which I don't have.

The searched company's named ActiveState (.org, I presume; I forgot the URL).

> Also the command texexec
> <filename> is mentioned but this does not work as a macro

texexec.pl is a Perl script (therefore you need Perl),
all ConTeXt scripts are located in ...texmf\context\perltk,
you should have this in your PATH. And maybe you should 
have a look at runperl.zip...

Grüßlis vom Hraban!

Re: WinEdt and Context

[Bruce Horrocks]

In message <200201021103.g02B3f600905@nathir.fiee.lan>,
on Wed, 2 Jan 2002 at 12:03:41, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:

>Am Dienstag 01 Januar 2002 20:38 schrieb Gerard Hermans:
>> In ConteXt manuals it is stated that Perl needs to be
>> installed, which I don't have.

>texexec.pl is a Perl script (therefore you need Perl),
>all ConTeXt scripts are located in ...texmf\context\perltk,
>you should have this in your PATH. And maybe you should
>have a look at runperl.zip...

I avoided the need for runperl.exe by choosing the appropriate 
(ActiveState) Perl install option that allows you to double-click .pl 
files to run them automatically. The reason for doing this is that 
runperl.exe does not set the ERRORLEVEL environment variable. I use the 
following command script file under Win2K to compile my current ConTeXt 
project and start Yap if it worked or drop into the editor if there were 
errors.

---start---
prompt $$
cd "C:\Documents and Settings\username\My Documents\working directory"

texexec.pl --batch %1 00_master.tex

@echo off
if errorlevel 1 goto errors
goto noerrors

:errors
"C:\path to editor\gvim.exe" -q 00_master.log
goto end

:noerrors
if "%1" == "--pdf" goto :end
start /i yap -1 00_master.dvi

:end
---end---

I call this script from one of two links on the desktop: one just calls 
this file as is and generates a DVI file - or drops into the editor if 
there is a problem. The other supplies "-PDF" as the %1 parameter which 
causes a PDF version to be generated instead of DVI.

Something like the above might be what you need to get your WinEDT macro 
working.

HTH.

Regards,
-- 
Bruce Horrocks
Hampshire
England
bh@granby.demon.co.uk

Re[2]: WinEdt and Context

[Robert F. Beeger]

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Hello Henning,

Wednesday, January 02, 2002, 12:03:41 PM, you wrote:

HHR> Am Dienstag 01 Januar 2002 20:38 schrieb Gerard Hermans:
>> In ConteXt manuals it is stated that Perl needs to be
>> installed, which I don't have.

HHR> The searched company's named ActiveState (.org, I presume; I forgot the URL).
It's .com (http://www.activestate.com). I think the only free thing on
their site is ActivePerl. Works fine with ConTeXt's Perl Scripts and
is easy to install.

Since the site is a bit crowded here's the direct link to the
ActivePerl download page
http://www.activestate.com/Products/Download/Get.plex?id=ActivePerl .

-- 
Greets
   Robert

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