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 >_______________________________________________ >ntg-context mailing list >ntg-context@ntg.nl >http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context _______________________________________________ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
