On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 09:46:57 -0600, Hans Hagen
well, if it's part of the tree ...
But what if it's not part of the tree? For example
Acrobat.lnk cow.pdf
Now you will say, "Why not use texmfstart --file=showcase.pdf --program=context"
Answer: Because texmfstart always resizes the acrobat window, and I want to keep the relative positions of my editor and viewer the same at all times. (of course showcase.pdf is full screen-mode but the restore position is still resized). This is also why I don't use the --autopdf option.
If one opens Acrobat with a link file this does not happen: the relative position generally stays the same as when it was last closed. If I make LNK executable in System Properties then I can use the following batch file
Acrobat.lnk %*
which will start its argument without resizing the window. So what I need is a batch file such that, from a console, I can say
Acrobat.bat cow.pdf
and C:\context will be searched for the file.
How can I do this?
I hope this is clearer. I wrote the question more abstractly because there could be many programs one may want to operate on the context tree.
mtxrun --launch cow.pdf
=========== mtxrun --launch cow.pdf Error in lua file loading: C:\ConTeXt\tex\texmf-mswin\bin\mtxrun.lua:3055: attempt to index local 'filename' (a nil value) =========== Also, I don't see how this relates to the resizing issue. Is there an option to mtxrun that, say, launches the pdf through the LNK shortcut instead of the EXE.? I saw the following lines in conedt.ini: ============ &Acrobat Reader Acrobat Reader %P %$('AcroRead'); "%P\%N.pdf" Acrobat Reader %P\%N.pdf ============ Is this where texmfstart gets its launch information for --autopdf etc? Or am I supposed to leave these alone? Best Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523