<--- On Jan 16, Mojca Miklavec wrote --->
Aditya Mahajan wrote:
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 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)
I have them (MikTeX and the stand-alone from Pragma) in parallel without any problem. I created "pragmatex.bat" (visible by PATH) which calls the setuptex.bat (or whatever the script in the stand-alone distr. is called). The two distros don't interfere at all. Once I call "pragmatex", all the sources and executables are chosen from the stand-alone tree when I compile the documents. (But thanks for the idea of making another texmf-pragma tree! I always managed to break something when mixing MikTeX and original files from Pragma, that's why I preferred to leave things as they are and use another distro instead.)
I once again tried to install the standalone context distribution and it works :-). So, I deleted context from the miktex distribution and now use the standalone distribution. Hopefully, it will be more stable 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 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 was actually following your thread on comp.lang.ruby hoping that someone will come up with a solution, but no suggestion worked. What I finally did was, download and install the one click installer, but removed it from the PATH. So when I am working on other projects, I get the cygwin ruby which works fine. I added a line to setuptex.bat that adds the one-click windows ruby to the front of the path. So when a context program asks for a ruby, it gets the windows version and everything works fine. The only drawback is that I can not use rxvt+bash, and have to use cmd.exe Aditya -- Aditya Mahajan, EECS Systems, University of Michigan http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~adityam || Ph: 7342624008