Saturday, March 16, 2002 Magnus Lie Hetland wrote:
MLH> Hi! MLH> I think ConTeXt looks like a great package, and I've thought so for MLH> quite some time -- but I haven't been able to install it :I MLH> I tried a while back to install it with MiKTeX, but gave up after a MLH> while. I recently tried again, but after getting things in place (not MLH> an easy thing), I got an error message from pdetex because it didn't MLH> understand an option supplied by texexec. Oh, well, I thought, and put MLH> it on the back-burner again. I can only help you with the MiKTeX install (I'm a ConTeXt-on-MiKTeX user :-)). First thing: ABSOLUTELY DON'T use the ConTeXt that comes with MiKTeX. It's outdated and the non-TeX part is badly implemented. Rather, grab the latest beta from www.pragma-pod.nl or from the FTP mirror ftp://ftp.wau.nl/pub/pragma/context/beta (the name of the file is cont-tmf.zip). Unpack the zip on the LOCAL TeX/MF tree, preserving directory structure (the .zip is TDS-structured so it will plug in nicely with whatever else you have there.) Refresh the filename database. Navigate to \localtexmf\context\perltk and unpack runperl.exe; copy it to texexec.exe, texutil.exe and so on and so forth for each Perl script. (BTW you can also use it for your own Perl scripts.) Add the path to \localtexmf\context\perltk to your system path (editing your autoexec.bat if your on Win9x/WinME, setting the appropriate variable in the Control Panel in WinNT/Win2K/WinXP). Edit \localtexmf\context\perltk\texexec.ini (if it's not there, copy texexec.rme to texexec.ini and edit the .ini). FWIW, the miktex part is set thus in my system: for miktex set TeXExecutable to pdfetex for miktex set TeXVirginFlag to --initialize for miktex set TeXPassString to --alias=context --terminal=oem --enable-write18 for miktex set TeXBatchFlag to --interaction=batchmode for miktex set MpToTeXExecutable to mptotex for miktex set MpVirginFlag to --initialize for miktex set MpPassString to --alias=mpost --terminal=oem for miktex set MpBatchFlag to % should be --interaction=batchmode but MiKTeX 2.1 does not support it! for miktex set TeXFormatFlag to --undump= for miktex set MpFormatFlag to --undump= Finally, find your local copy of the miktex.ini file (\localtexmf\miktex\config\miktex.ini) and in the [ConTeXt] section add AT LEAST the following line: pool_size=1000000 I also added: write18 = enable just in case I forget to use --enable-write18 in the texexec.ini file. -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta
