Hi! I think ConTeXt looks like a great package, and I've thought so for quite some time -- but I haven't been able to install it :I
I tried a while back to install it with MiKTeX, but gave up after a while. I recently tried again, but after getting things in place (not an easy thing), I got an error message from pdetex because it didn't understand an option supplied by texexec. Oh, well, I thought, and put it on the back-burner again. Suddenly I remembered a phrase from the installation manual: "When you are using teTeX or derived distributions, you can usually stick to the regular updates [...]". After investigated, I realised that this meant that ConTeXt was included in teTeX -- and that fpTeX was a Windows port. Yay! The installation of fpTeX went without any problems (really a great distribution), but using ConTeXt still wasn't as easy as I would like. (I still haven't been able to make it work.) First of all, the texexec.exe included (which is basically runperl.exe, I guess) doesn't accept spaces in the directory name, and since the default installation location is in "C:\Program Files\..." that is definitely a problem. I moved it (and texexec.pl) somewhere else, as well as copying texexec.rme to a texexec.ini in the same location (why isn't this done by default?). Now I am able to run texexec, but for some reason I get an error from pdfeTeX... It can't find my tex files... Even when I run it without texexec on a file in the current directory (e.g. test.tex) I get the error message ! I can't find file `test.tex'. What could be the problem now? (If this question belongs on the pdftex list instead, or perhaps even a separate fpTeX list, I apologise.) -- Magnus Lie Hetland The Anygui Project http://hetland.org http://anygui.org
