On Fri, 21 Apr 2006 01:33:04 +0200, andrea valle wrote: > Dear all, > I'm using conTeXt to create automatic documentation about sound > classification. The idea is that starting from an html file collecting > infos about sounds my program can generate some schematic images using > R and POV-Ray and to create a conTeXt file including both images and > textual information. > > Now, I'd like to share this work with my students. I'm on macosx, > they're typically on win. My program is in python so it's > cross-platform, so no problem. Obviously they can annotate sounds, > generate images and include them manually in a MS word file. But I'd > prefer that they compile the conTeXt file. > > On two win machines I tried to install conTeXt using the complete > package (shipped with Scite: nice). I had always (different) troubles > (on each machine) with environment variable (e.g. for Perl): actually > I'm not able to run conTeXt. > > Hacking a bit, eventually asking the list, I think I will solve the > problem. But I don't think that my students can do, as I suspect that > they probably not even know what is PATH. And I cannot help them on > each installation. > > 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 would allow many people to try, use > and get fond conTeXt (and maybe to leave Word) without having to > struggle with problems which typically lead people to leave out. > > It seems to me that a similar installer would be a refinement in the > spirit of the actual mswincontext distro. > At the end, it's not that far form Gerben's distro on macosx. It does > everything for me... > Or maybe am I missing something? > > Just my 2 c > > Best > > -a- > > > > Andrea Valle > DAMS - Facoltà di Scienze della Formazione > Università degli Studi di Torino > http://www.semiotiche.it/andrea > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
If I'm not wrong, If you go on http://www.pragma-ade.com/dir/context/install/ (click documents > directory view > context > install), you will find that the bigger *.zip (cdwincontext.zip) contains Perl & Ruby, while mswincontext.zip no. So you can run Context out of the box with cdwincontext. (untested, because I got Perl & Ruby already) 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 executables to the path, since it's done while installation. Cheers -- olivier Turlier _______________________________________________ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
