Re: [NTG-context] texexec

2006-05-06 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Fri, 5 May 2006, Hans Hagen wrote: Hi, I'd like to make the ruby version of texexec the default. Are there any strong objections to this? Is ruby stable with respect to system calls? Is the behaviour consistent on Linux and Windows? Are there active Ruby users on the list who can

Re: [NTG-context] texexec

2006-05-05 Thread luigi scarso
On 5/5/06, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'd like to make the ruby version of texexec the default. Are there any strong objections to this? OK ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

Re: [NTG-context] texexec

2006-05-05 Thread Steve Grathwohl
On 5/4/06, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi,I'd like to make the ruby version of texexec the default. Are there anystrong objections to this?Also, i'd like the stubs to run texmfstart as launcher. For that purpose i'll add a /scripts/context/stubs/[mswin|unix] path with the default stubs

Re: [NTG-context] texexec

2006-05-05 Thread Renaud AUBIN
Nice, I don't have to use texmfstart newtexexec.rb my_doc anymore (and don't have to think to make a stub !!! ;) ) What about the perl script for the future ? Hans Hagen a écrit : Hi, I'd like to make the ruby version of texexec the default. Are there any strong objections to this? Also, i'd

Re: [NTG-context] texexec

2006-05-05 Thread Steve Peter
On May 4, 2006, at 6:03 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: I'd like to make the ruby version of texexec the default. Are there any strong objections to this? I think Ruby is now installed on enough machines out there. At this point, I have no objection to the switchover. Steve

[NTG-context] Error message in texexec --make --all

2006-05-05 Thread Stefan Lagotzki
Hi, I'd like to use the stand-alone-version of ConTeXt with Win2k, but it doesn't work: F:\isoimage\usr\local\context\demotexexec --make --all f:/isoimage/usr/local/context/tex/texmf-local/scripts/context/ruby/newtexexec.rb:8:in `require': No such file to load -- base/switch (LoadError) from

Re: [NTG-context] Error message in texexec --make --all

2006-05-05 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Fri, 5 May 2006, Stefan Lagotzki wrote: Hi, I'd like to use the stand-alone-version of ConTeXt with Win2k, but it doesn't work: F:\isoimage\usr\local\context\demotexexec --make --all f:/isoimage/usr/local/context/tex/texmf-local/scripts/context/ruby/newtexexec.rb:8:in `require

Re: [NTG-context] Error message in texexec --make --all

2006-05-05 Thread Stefan Lagotzki
Aditya Mahajan said: Which ruby do you have (one-click installer or from cygwin)? Try setting RUBYLIB path variable to F:\isoimage\usr\local\context\tex\texmf-local\scripts\context\ruby set RUBYLIB=/cygdrive/f/[my-texmf-tree]/scripts/context/ruby Thanks ;-) Stefan

[NTG-context] texexec

2006-05-04 Thread Hans Hagen
Hi, I'd like to make the ruby version of texexec the default. Are there any strong objections to this? Also, i'd like the stubs to run texmfstart as launcher. For that purpose i'll add a /scripts/context/stubs/[mswin|unix] path with the default stubs that one can copy to some bin path Hans

[NTG-context] installation problem

2006-05-03 Thread Karsten Heymann
/kpseremote on library paths: /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6 /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/i686-linux /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby /usr/lib/ruby/1.6 /usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i686-linux . /home/archiv/tex/texmf-linux/bin /home/archiv/tex/texmf-linux/bin/texmfstart-lib /home/archiv/tex/texmf-local/scripts/context

Re: [NTG-context] generating formats with newtexexec

2006-04-27 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: Which as as it should be [however, newtexexec --check does not perform alll tests as it should]. On Mac OS X, I get at the end: Perhaps the ruby scripts are confused about the separator on Mac OS X? (I do not really know, just guessing). Taco

Re: [NTG-context] generating formats with newtexexec

2006-04-27 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: On Apr 27, 2006, at 2:43 PM, Taco Hoekwater wrote: Perhaps the ruby scripts are confused about the separator on Mac OS X? (I do not really know, just guessing). Not very probable since OS X uses the same separator as linux/Unix, / I meant the separate paths

Re: [NTG-context] generating formats with newtexexec

2006-04-27 Thread Hans Hagen
Taco Hoekwater wrote: Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: Which as as it should be [however, newtexexec --check does not perform alll tests as it should]. On Mac OS X, I get at the end: Perhaps the ruby scripts are confused about the separator on Mac OS X? (I do not really know, just

Re: [NTG-context] generating formats with newtexexec

2006-04-27 Thread Hans Hagen
Taco Hoekwater wrote: Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: On Apr 27, 2006, at 2:43 PM, Taco Hoekwater wrote: Perhaps the ruby scripts are confused about the separator on Mac OS X? (I do not really know, just guessing). Not very probable since OS X uses the same separator as linux

Re: [NTG-context] mswincontext problems

2006-04-27 Thread Mojca Miklavec
completely broken.) The first impression makes me feel that you won't need only if (MikTeX) whitches in your ruby scripts, but also if (MikTeX 2.5), ... And what I least understand: the developer puts a lot of effort into development itself (features like improving YaST to display just about every

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt +Tioga

2006-04-22 Thread Hans Hagen
Jilani Khaldi wrote: interesting (i assume that it produced pdf) Yes with the difference that while Metapost, Asympthote and GLE (http://glx.sourceforge.net/) use their own proprietary language to do PDF graphics, Tioga(*) uses Ruby, a full featrured and very nice language. I

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt +Tioga

2006-04-22 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hans Hagen wrote: Jilani Khaldi wrote: interesting (i assume that it produced pdf) Yes with the difference that while Metapost, Asympthote and GLE (http://glx.sourceforge.net/) use their own proprietary language to do PDF graphics, Tioga(*) uses Ruby, a full featrured and very nice

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt +Tioga

2006-04-22 Thread Jilani Khaldi
/MetaPost): z0.. controls z1 and z2 .. z3 Very true, but you forgot that in Tioga everything is done inside Ruby interpreter. Tioga is a Ruby extension so you could use the power of Ruby, its standard library and all the other extensions made for it inside Tioga. However, I don't like

Re: [NTG-context] 2c considerations about win installer

2006-04-22 Thread olivier
was asking myself if it would not be possible (and better) to have an .exe installer as usual happens in win, including Perl, maybe Ruby (+ or- 20 Mb doesn't change too much). Double click, and it set ups all the installation parameters. A completely autonomous installer would allow many people

Re: [NTG-context] 2c considerations about win installer

2006-04-22 Thread Mari Voipio
olivier wrote: Your students can also install Ruby (single click .exe : Rubyinstaller from : http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/9417/ruby184-16_rc1.exe) and Perl (single click .exe : activePerl :http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl/) whithout any pb's of adding new

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt +Tioga

2006-04-22 Thread andrea valle
than this (Asymptote/MetaPost): z0.. controls z1 and z2 .. z3 Very true, but you forgot that in Tioga everything is done inside Ruby interpreter. Tioga is a Ruby extension so you could use the power of Ruby, its standard library and all the other extensions made for it inside Tioga

Re: [NTG-context] 2c considerations about win installer

2006-04-22 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 4/21/06, Jilani Khaldi wrote: So, more generally, I was asking myself if it would not be possible (and better) to have an .exe installer as usual happens in win, including Perl, maybe Ruby (+ or- 20 Mb doesn't change too much). Double click, and it set ups all the installation parameters

Re: [NTG-context] 2c considerations about win installer

2006-04-21 Thread Jilani Khaldi
So, more generally, I was asking myself if it would not be possible (and better) to have an .exe installer as usual happens in win, including Perl, maybe Ruby (+ or- 20 Mb doesn't change too much). Double click, and it set ups all the installation parameters. A completely autonomous installer

Re: [NTG-context] 2c considerations about win installer

2006-04-21 Thread Hans Hagen
Jilani Khaldi wrote: So, more generally, I was asking myself if it would not be possible (and better) to have an .exe installer as usual happens in win, including Perl, maybe Ruby (+ or- 20 Mb doesn't change too much). Double click, and it set ups all the installation parameters

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt +Tioga

2006-04-21 Thread Jilani Khaldi
interesting (i assume that it produced pdf) Yes with the difference that while Metapost, Asympthote and GLE (http://glx.sourceforge.net/) use their own proprietary language to do PDF graphics, Tioga(*) uses Ruby, a full featrured and very nice language. I even see more presence

Re: [NTG-context] No metapost compilation on files named file.001.tex

2006-04-20 Thread Hans Hagen
2006 09:57:11 +0200, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: works here; do you use the latest (new)texexec? The problem appears only for the old perl texexec. Testing with the ruby one does not produce the problem. I guess it's a problem with the OS: in the thread the problem

[NTG-context] 2c considerations about win installer

2006-04-20 Thread andrea valle
as usual happens in win, including Perl, maybe Ruby (+ or- 20 Mb doesn't change too much). Double click, and it set ups all the installation parameters. A completely autonomous installer would allow many people to try, use and get fond conTeXt (and maybe to leave Word) without having

Re: [NTG-context] Miktex woes

2006-04-18 Thread Aditya Mahajan
and you do not mind installing ruby, you can instal the windows installation from pragma in a different (from Miktex texmf and localtexmf trees) directory. Use setuptex.bat to add the pragma binaries to the path only when you need them. This way, you can keep on using latex from miktex and can

Re: [NTG-context] latest beta

2006-04-08 Thread Hans Hagen
try to use texmfstart, I get this error: /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/scripts/context/ruby/base/ kpseremote.rb:8:in `require': No such file to load -- base/kpse/drb (LoadError) from /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/scripts/context/ruby/ base/kpseremote.rb:8 from

Re: [NTG-context] version dates confuse me after upgrade

2006-04-08 Thread Hans Hagen
it with ruby, but where is it supposed to end up? it is supposed to stay there and be launched using texmfstart (alsl ruby) Hans i remember from long ago that there's also some path trickery involved (btw, i'm not sure where the binaries live) Hmm, tell me more about that if you

[NTG-context] latest beta

2006-04-07 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
this error: /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/scripts/context/ruby/base/ kpseremote.rb:8:in `require': No such file to load -- base/kpse/drb (LoadError) from /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/scripts/context/ruby/ base/kpseremote.rb:8 from /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local

Re: [NTG-context] latest beta

2006-04-07 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
does not work, it just doesn't process the modules (works with old texexec) 2. not sure if this is a misconfiguration on my system, but when I try to use texmfstart, I get this error: /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/scripts/context/ruby/base/ kpseremote.rb:8:in `require': No such file

Re: [NTG-context] version dates confuse me after upgrade

2006-04-07 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
develop software faster than I can even read about it! By the way, where is newtexexec? I see the newtexexec.rb in the .zip file, and could presumably run it with ruby, but where is it supposed to end up? * As root, ran update-texmf to regenerate /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf ah ... i hate

Re: [NTG-context] Miktex, Metapost and \loadfontfilesoncetrue

2006-04-04 Thread WN
a minimal example in a clean directory, post that here along with what commands to run, and all of the results (logs, temp files) you get. The perl script (texexec.pl) has some difficulties (sometimes the problem with wrong format loding appears and sometimes not), but since the ruby

Re: [NTG-context] Miktex, Metapost and \loadfontfilesoncetrue

2006-04-03 Thread Mojca Miklavec
(logs, temp files) you get. The perl script (texexec.pl) has some difficulties (sometimes the problem with wrong format loding appears and sometimes not), but since the ruby script is supposed to replace it anyway it doesn't really make sense to lose time fixing old stuff. Hans has just fixed

Re: [NTG-context] crossref in bibtex

2006-03-23 Thread Bruce D'Arcus
-project lead for the OOo bib project). Second, I have started porting CiteProc to Ruby (and put a citeproc-py directory in the repo for those python coders that might want to contribute), which might integrate better with ConTeXt. (I suppose Lua might also be an option given the integration

Re: [NTG-context] texexec.ini not read

2006-03-01 Thread Hans Hagen
Aditya Mahajan wrote: Oops, forgot to attach the logs --- On Mar 1, Aditya Mahajan wrote --- --- On Feb 28, Aditya Mahajan wrote --- I was trying to make the stand along context work with cygwin using cygwin ruby. Following the advice on the wiki of adding /scripts/context/ruby to rubylib

Re: [NTG-context] texexec.ini not read

2006-03-01 Thread Hans Hagen
Aditya Mahajan wrote: I was trying to make the stand along context work with cygwin using cygwin ruby. Following the advice on the wiki of adding /scripts/context/ruby to rubylib, everything works fine. However, I am not able to enable write18. I copied texexec.rme to texexec.ini

Re: [NTG-context] texexec.ini not read

2006-03-01 Thread Aditya Mahajan
--- On Mar 1, Hans Hagen wrote --- Aditya Mahajan wrote: Oops, forgot to attach the logs --- On Mar 1, Aditya Mahajan wrote --- --- On Feb 28, Aditya Mahajan wrote --- I was trying to make the stand along context work with cygwin using cygwin ruby. Following the advice on the wiki

Re: [NTG-context] mswincontext.zip installation

2006-02-28 Thread Keith McKay
mswincontext.zip. I have properly installed perl and ruby as the wiki says. (http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Windows_Installation#Stand-alone_ConTeXt_dist ribution) But when it comes to use cdemo.bat I got: texmfstart newtexexec.rb --autopdf --pdf demo-tex.tex TeXExec | processing document 'demo

[NTG-context] texexec.ini not read

2006-02-28 Thread Aditya Mahajan
I was trying to make the stand along context work with cygwin using cygwin ruby. Following the advice on the wiki of adding /scripts/context/ruby to rubylib, everything works fine. However, I am not able to enable write18. I copied texexec.rme to texexec.ini and added -shell-escape to all set

Re: [NTG-context] texexec.ini not read

2006-02-28 Thread Aditya Mahajan
--- On Feb 28, Aditya Mahajan wrote --- I was trying to make the stand along context work with cygwin using cygwin ruby. Following the advice on the wiki of adding /scripts/context/ruby to rubylib, everything works fine. However, I am not able to enable write18. I copied texexec.rme

Re: [NTG-context] mswincontext.zip installation

2006-02-27 Thread Mojca Miklavec
Jose Ignacio Marín Alberdi wrote: Hi all, I am experiencing some trouble using mswincontext.zip. I have properly installed perl and ruby as the wiki says. (http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Windows_Installation#Stand-alone_ConTeXt_dist ribution) But when it comes to use cdemo.bat I got

Re: [NTG-context] mswincontext.zip installation

2006-02-27 Thread Jose Ignacio Marín Alberdi
: lunes, 27 de febrero de 2006 13:08 Para: mailing list for ConTeXt users Asunto: Re: [NTG-context] mswincontext.zip installation Jose Ignacio Marín Alberdi wrote: Hi all, I am experiencing some trouble using mswincontext.zip. I have properly installed perl and ruby as the wiki says. (http

[NTG-context] mswincontext.zip installation

2006-02-26 Thread Jose Ignacio Marín Alberdi
Hi all, I am experiencing some trouble using mswincontext.zip. I have properly installed perl and ruby as the wiki says. (http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Windows_Installation#Stand-alone_ConTeXt_dist ribution) But when it comes to use cdemo.bat I got: texmfstart newtexexec.rb --autopdf --pdf

Re: [NTG-context] mswincontext.zip installation

2006-02-26 Thread Keith McKay
Subject: [NTG-context] mswincontext.zip installation Hi all, I am experiencing some trouble using mswincontext.zip. I have properly installed perl and ruby as the wiki says. (http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Windows_Installation#Stand-alone_ConTeXt_dist ribution) But when it comes to use cdemo.bat I

Re: [NTG-context] media wiki ConTeXt

2006-02-22 Thread Patrick Gundlach
to make ConTeXt documents from wiki pages! :-) I have a mediawiki2... ruby script where ... is currently html and xml. Its not perfect yet and not published anywhere, but if anybody is interested in doing some ConTeXt stuff there Firstly i would like to integrate Context in my wiki, like you

Re: [NTG-context] gnuplot mode

2006-02-15 Thread Renaud AUBIN
Hi Taco, happy to read you again :-) ! I don't have texmfstart. It is a win script, isn't it ? I have a debian box. Maybe I have to do some hacks in m-gnuplot. I have try ruby /usr/local/texlive/2005/texmf-dist/scripts/context/ruby/newpstopdf.rb --method=raw m-gnuplot-gnuplot-1.ps

Re: [NTG-context] gnuplot mode

2006-02-15 Thread Hans Hagen
Renaud AUBIN wrote: Hi Taco, happy to read you again :-) ! I don't have texmfstart. It is a win script, isn't it ? I have a debian box. Maybe I have to do some hacks in m-gnuplot. I have try ruby /usr/local/texlive/2005/texmf-dist/scripts/context/ruby/newpstopdf.rb --method=raw m-gnuplot

Re: [NTG-context] gnuplot mode

2006-02-15 Thread Renaud AUBIN
Hi Hans, texmfstart is a ruby script (in scritps/context/ruby); Normally there should be a copy without suffix in some bin path No... I have put a copy in /usr/local/bin and texexec --pdf --mode=demo m-gnuplot works now. depends on how you installed the lucidas's texfont --en

Re: [NTG-context] gnuplot mode

2006-02-15 Thread Hans Hagen
Renaud AUBIN wrote: Hi Hans, texmfstart is a ruby script (in scritps/context/ruby); Normally there should be a copy without suffix in some bin path No... I have put a copy in /usr/local/bin and texexec --pdf --mode=demo m-gnuplot works now. depends on how you installed the lucidas's

Re: [NTG-context] texmfstart.exe vs. texmfstart.rb

2006-02-06 Thread Hans Hagen
Hooman Javidnia wrote: Hi Hans and Taco, Thanks to all your guidance and a lot of trial and error, now I have a SciTE under windwos XP which works. There is one strange feature though. I had to put the .exe version of texmfstart into the scripts ruby scripts folder so that my files get

[NTG-context] texmfstart.exe vs. texmfstart.rb

2006-02-05 Thread Hooman Javidnia
Hi Hans and Taco, Thanks to all your guidance and a lot of trial and error, now I have a SciTE under windwos XP which works. There is one strange feature though. I had to put the .exe version of texmfstart into the scripts ruby scripts folder so that my files get compiled. SciTE can't understand

Re: [NTG-context] Identifying context files

2006-02-03 Thread Hans Hagen
={latex,pdflatex,plain,pdfetex} etc.? No need to do smart things, just run the command that results from engine+format, once. the ruby version of texexec can handle that (if i did it right); Hans

Re: [NTG-context] Identifying context files

2006-02-03 Thread Hans Hagen
to covnert it to VimL. I do not want to reinvent the wheel. her eis the ruby method used in newtexexec: def scantexcontent(filename) if FileTest.file?(filename) and tex = File.open(filename) then while str = tex.gets do case str.chomp

Re: [NTG-context] loadfontfileoncetrue

2006-02-02 Thread Hans Hagen
`--engine=pdfetex' take a kpsewhich from the latest tex live; it looks like miktex does not have a recent one; (well, meybe it's about time to the ruby version and use the alternative kpse script) Hans

[NTG-context] bug in today's release

2006-02-02 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
/ruby/base/tex.rb: 1249:in `processfile'TeXExec | option 'filename' is set to 'beredsamkeit.tex' TeXExec | option 'mainlanguage' is set to 'standard' TeXExec | option 'bodyfont' is set to 'standard' TeXExec | option 'language' is set to 'standard' TeXExec | option 'engine' is set to 'standard

Re: [NTG-context] bug in today's release

2006-02-02 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: Sorry it's me again who's breaking the bad news... Today's release seems to have a bug; newtexexec won't run. Here's the output I get: On line 1249 in scripts/context/ruby/base/tex.rb there is a bare if verbose. It should be if getvariable('verbose') Cheers, Taco

Re: [NTG-context] bug in today's release

2006-02-02 Thread Hans Hagen
/texmf.local/scripts/context/ruby/base/tex.rb: 1249:in `processfile'TeXExec | option 'filename' is set to 'beredsamkeit.tex' TeXExec | option 'mainlanguage' is set to 'standard' TeXExec | option 'bodyfont' is set to 'standard' TeXExec | option 'language' is set to 'standard' TeXExec

Re: [NTG-context] bug in today's release

2006-02-02 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
news... Today's release seems to have a bug; newtexexec won't run. Here's the output I get: On line 1249 in scripts/context/ruby/base/tex.rb there is a bare if verbose. It should be if getvariable('verbose') Cheers, Taco ___ ntg-context mailing list

Re: [NTG-context] SciTE and TeXLive

2006-01-31 Thread Hans Hagen
Hooman Javidnia wrote: texexec is known, I know this because I can run it from command line. texmfstart is located in E:\TeXLive2005\texmf-dist\scripts\context\ruby but I am not sure if it is known to the system or not. How can I test this? Should I tweak any file or add to to PATH variable

Re: [NTG-context] SciTE and TeXLive

2006-01-31 Thread Hans Hagen
Hooman Javidnia wrote: On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, Hans Hagen wrote: Hooman Javidnia wrote: texexec is known, I know this because I can run it from command line. texmfstart is located in E:\TeXLive2005\texmf-dist\scripts\context\ruby but I am not sure if it is known to the system

Re: [NTG-context] SciTE and TeXLive

2006-01-31 Thread Hooman Javidnia
On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, Hans Hagen wrote: Hooman Javidnia wrote: On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, Hans Hagen wrote: Hooman Javidnia wrote: texexec is known, I know this because I can run it from command line. texmfstart is located in E:\TeXLive2005\texmf-dist\scripts\context\ruby but I

Re: [NTG-context] SciTE and TeXLive

2006-01-30 Thread Hooman Javidnia
:\TeXLive2005\texmf-dist\scripts\context\ruby but I am not sure if it is known to the system or not. How can I test this? Should I tweak any file or add to to PATH variable? ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo

[NTG-context] SciTE Setup in Windows and .rb scripts

2006-01-23 Thread Hooman Javidnia
done everything in SCiTE in ConTeXt manual, but I can't still compile my files. I have to go to command line and do it manually. Should I install Ruby on my machine? What is Ruby for anyway? Where should I get those .rb scripts and where should I put them? Keep up the good work, Cheers, Hooman

Re: [NTG-context] SciTE Setup in Windows and .rb scripts

2006-01-20 Thread Hans Hagen
Hooman Javidnia wrote: It seems that SciTE can't still detect type of the file that I want to compile or build. I get the same message when I Build myfile.tex too, although Build process finishes without any errors. run this once in a console: FTYPE RubyScript=c:\data\system\ruby\bin

[NTG-context] SciTE Setup in Windows and .rb scripts

2006-01-19 Thread Hooman Javidnia
done everything in SCiTE in ConTeXt manual, but I can't still compile my files. I have to go to command line and do it manually. Should I install Ruby on my machine? What is Ruby for anyway? Where should I get those .rb scripts and where should I put them? Keep up the good work, Cheers, Hooman

Re: [NTG-context] SciTE Setup in Windows and .rb scripts

2006-01-19 Thread Mari Voipio
Hooman Javidnia wrote: Should I install Ruby on my machine? Yes, you'll need both Ruby and Perl. Both are scripting languages. You must have missed the discussion about this earlier today, but no problem, it got wikified: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Windows_Installation#Stand

Re: [NTG-context] SciTE Setup in Windows and .rb scripts

2006-01-19 Thread Mari Voipio
It would of course help if I learned to read - I didn't exactly answer your question fully and I'm sorry about that. I cannot quite answer to all parts of your questions, but here's a bit more: Yes, you need to have working installations of Ruby and Perl on your computer. If you can make

Re: [NTG-context] SciTE Setup in Windows and .rb scripts

2006-01-19 Thread Hooman Javidnia
Thanks Mari for the very valuable advice. With your help, now I have something that works (kind of): Here is what I did: 1. I installed Ruby. I have no idea why it should be installed on a system so that ConTeXt works. 2. I downloaded texmfstart.exe and put in the texmf bin folder (I have

Re: [NTG-context] Stand alone Context editing environment

2006-01-18 Thread Miguel Queiros
need to install Perl and Ruby. Take a look at: http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2005/014223.html If you had instaled Miktex on Windows before you should note that you might need to take Miktex from your PATH. I had to do it. Miguel Queirós

Re: [NTG-context] Stand alone Context editing environment

2006-01-18 Thread Hans Hagen
? Is there an editor in this zip configured and ready to go? the slightly bigger variant is cdwincontext, which has also scite ruby and perl; if you put that on a windows machine, and run the bat file in the root path you have a stand alone environment (in projects, this is what we give authors

Re: [NTG-context] Stand alone Context editing environment

2006-01-18 Thread David Arnold
someone explain to me what this is? If it is downloaded and unzipped, is it ready to go? Is there documentation of this particular zip? Is there an editor in this zip configured and ready to go? the slightly bigger variant is cdwincontext, which has also scite ruby and perl; if you put

Re: [NTG-context] New Installation under miktex, not working

2006-01-17 Thread Hans Hagen
Aditya Mahajan wrote: I had a similar problem. I needed cygwin ruby because there are certain ruby packages (e.g. narray) that I could get to work with cygwin ruby without any hassle but do not work with the ruby one click installer. But cygwin ruby and context do not go together. I

Re: [NTG-context] Notes for Scite

2006-01-16 Thread Mojca Miklavec
David Arnold wrote: Will it be required to install Ruby and/or Lua on the windows platform? If so, is this the binary I should download and install? http://luaforge.net/frs/download.php/1148/lua5_1b1_Win32_bin.tar.gz Anything else required besides perl? Not always required, but I would

Re: [NTG-context] Notes for Scite

2006-01-16 Thread Hans Hagen
David Arnold wrote: Will it be required to install Ruby and/or Lua on the windows platform? If so, is this the binary I should download and install? http://luaforge.net/frs/download.php/1148/lua5_1b1_Win32_bin.tar.gz Anything else required besides perl? also reacting to anouther mail

Re: [NTG-context] New Installation under miktex, not working

2006-01-16 Thread Mojca Miklavec
as they are and use another distro instead.) I'm not sure, but I guess that you would need tetex to run it from bash. Don't ask me about the numerous (still unsolved) problems I had just because the ruby executable is only available under cygwin at the university. Mojca

Re: [NTG-context] New Installation under miktex, not working

2006-01-16 Thread Aditya Mahajan
than in miktex. I'm not sure, but I guess that you would need tetex to run it from bash. Don't ask me about the numerous (still unsolved) problems I had just because the ruby executable is only available under cygwin at the university. I had a similar problem. I needed cygwin ruby because

Re: [NTG-context] Notes for Scite

2006-01-15 Thread David Arnold
Will it be required to install Ruby and/or Lua on the windows platform? If so, is this the binary I should download and install? http://luaforge.net/frs/download.php/1148/lua5_1b1_Win32_bin.tar.gz Anything else required besides perl? On Jan 15, 2006, at 9:59 AM, Hans Hagen wrote: David

Re: [NTG-context] Re: [Aleph] OpenType-to-TeX and other musings...

2005-12-18 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
not just use, e.g., Ruby (less languages for me to learn-)? But you are quite right: the otp language is a real bear... Best Idris -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl

Re: [NTG-context] Re: [Aleph] OpenType-to-TeX and other musings...

2005-12-18 Thread Hans Hagen
it such a great tool? Why not just use, e.g., Ruby (less languages for me to learn-)? well, there is google ... lua is - small, so no huge overhead and expanding library base - clever enough for the job needed - a well designed embedded language - fun But you are quite right: the otp

Re: [NTG-context] Re: Chinese

2005-12-13 Thread Hans Hagen
sjoerd siebinga wrote: I have made a Ruby-script (for personal use loosely based on Adam's xsl-files) which generates all the encoding- and symbolfiles from a given cmapfile. If someone could send me the ttf-font, I can generate all the necessary encodingfiles for you. the chinese fonts

Re: [NTG-context] Re: Chinese

2005-12-13 Thread Tobias Burnus
Hi, sjoerd siebinga wrote: I have made a Ruby-script (for personal use loosely based on Adam's xsl-files) which generates all the encoding- and symbolfiles from a given cmapfile. If someone could send me the ttf-font, I can generate all the necessary encodingfiles for you. Nice

Re: [NTG-context] Re: Chinese

2005-12-13 Thread sjoerd siebinga
On 13 Dec 2005, at 11:34, Hans Hagen wrote: sjoerd siebinga wrote: I have made a Ruby-script (for personal use loosely based on Adam's xsl-files) which generates all the encoding- and symbolfiles from a given cmapfile. If someone could send me the ttf-font, I can generate all

[NTG-context] your mails at go

2005-12-13 Thread Hans Hagen
sjoerd siebinga wrote: On 13 Dec 2005, at 11:34, Hans Hagen wrote: sjoerd siebinga wrote: I have made a Ruby-script (for personal use loosely based on Adam's xsl-files) which generates all the encoding- and symbolfiles from a given cmapfile. If someone could send me the ttf-font, I

Re: [NTG-context] I can't find the format file `pdfetex.fmt'!

2005-11-29 Thread Hans Hagen
ktt wrote: Yes, that's true. ok, let's solve this off-list; i'll send you a patched ruby script for testing Hans ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

Re: [NTG-context] beginners manual - Install

2005-11-24 Thread Wolfgang Zillig
Perl and Ruby to be installed. By the way... Are there any sugestions on the installation of Ruby and Perl on windows ? http://www.activestate.com/ they provide avtivepearl. It's no problem to install it. http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/ there you get ruby. They provide a link

Re: [NTG-context] kpathsea355.dll missing from 2005-11-16 mswintex.zip and mswincontext.zip

2005-11-24 Thread Hans Hagen
tracked in the collector? is that dll needed? afaik the kpse dll is: tl90kpse.dll maybe you're calling the wrong binary? btw 1: since the kpse library is not that suited for usage outside the tex collection of binaries (the interface changes now and then) i decided to write a ruby variant. since

[NTG-context] Context 2005.11.24 Released

2005-11-24 Thread Taco Hoekwater
is a new command to be used like \item, \head and \sym inside itemgroups (e.g. '\startitemize ... \stopitemize') * texmfstart can be used to generate the stub commands like 'texfont' now Bugs fixed compared to the 2005.11.16 version: * the new texexec (in ruby) has gained some backward

Re: [NTG-context] beginners manual - Install

2005-11-24 Thread Miguel Queiros
http://www.activestate.com/ they provide avtivepearl. It's no problem to install it. http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/ there you get ruby. They provide a link to the one click ruby installer which you will find here: http://rubyinstaller.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl there is the I'v had

Re: [NTG-context] beginners manual - Install

2005-11-23 Thread Miguel Queiros
there should be an updated manual about how to install context. I'm still using a context version from 2004.08 as it is the only one it worked for me. I downloaded as far as I remember the file mswincontext.zip , the stand alone version of context, but the newer versions need Perl and Ruby

[NTG-context] newtexexec: post-processing pdf-files

2005-11-23 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
I mentioned this earlier but had only now time to look into it: there appears to be a bug in newtexexec, it bombs out when I try to post- process pdf-files. Here's a log: ruby /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/scripts/context/ruby/ newtexexec.rb --pdfselect --selection=1 grammatik2.pdf

Re: [NTG-context] mfonts.tex

2005-11-21 Thread David Arnold
to all of Gerben's latest stuff, so I am as current as I can be with that distribution. I do have Ruby on this Mac. So, hold my hand and and guide me through the compile stage. The first problem, as I see it, is to get the expected organizational tree for these manuals For example

Re: [NTG-context] mfonts.tex

2005-11-21 Thread David Arnold
. But successful ones. Just the way I like to work. :-) Now, I want to compile mfonts.tex. Ruby is on my system (Mac Tiger). fonts $ which ruby /usr/bin/ruby I am looking in mfonts.rb: fonts $ cat mfonts.rb # usage: runtools mfonts.rb # # copyright=pragma-ade readme=readme.pdf licence=cc-gpl job = Job.new

[NTG-context] manuals

2005-11-17 Thread Hans Hagen
Hi, The following manual source trees are now available: allkind (some) columns (whole manual) details (whole manual) lua (experimental) magazines (all) metafun (whole manual) some of them use independent pdf files (as image) which need to be processed using the provides ruby

Re: [NTG-context] manuals

2005-11-17 Thread Taco Hoekwater
are now available: allkind (some) columns (whole manual) details (whole manual) lua (experimental) magazines (all) metafun (whole manual) some of them use independent pdf files (as image) which need to be processed using the provides ruby 'runtools' script [runtools is my way

Re: [NTG-context] updates

2005-11-16 Thread Alexander Lazic
Hi, On Die 15.11.2005 14:32, Hans Hagen wrote: I also want to move on to the ruby variants of texexec and texutil, so i want the latest versions to be available (for testers). is the perl-version still avilable? Because the most platform have perl in the default installation ;-) Greetings

Re: [NTG-context] updates

2005-11-16 Thread Hans Hagen
Alexander Lazic wrote: Hi, On Die 15.11.2005 14:32, Hans Hagen wrote: I also want to move on to the ruby variants of texexec and texutil, so i want the latest versions to be available (for testers). is the perl-version still avilable? Because the most platform have perl in the default

[NTG-context] Context 2005.11.16 Released

2005-11-16 Thread Taco Hoekwater
from the http://modules.contextgarden.net site. (currently, it contains only the 'ConTeXt Lettrines' module) Bugs fixed compared to the 2005.11.15 version: * some ongoing bugfixes to the new ruby scripts * \sqrt can now again be used in ToCs and captions (etc.) * \type can again be used

[NTG-context] updates

2005-11-15 Thread Hans Hagen
Hi, The next couple of weeks there will probably more 'updates' than normal; this is due to the fact that i'm adding long due features and such. I also want to move on to the ruby variants of texexec and texutil, so i want the latest versions to be available (for testers). Currently I'm

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