Re: [NTG-context] Module documentation

On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 10:27 AM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 4:25 PM, wrote:

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Hello all,

I have been using Context for a while now and have learnt a lot from the manuals and wiki. I now want to start to use features that are not documented. On the wiki (http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Official_ConTeXt_Documentation#ConTeXt_Sources) I found the following command for producing a pdf output for a module:

texmfstart texexec --module kpse:core-tab.tex

which seems ideal for learning more. When I run the above command line it creates a .ted file but then complains:

"I can't find the format file 'cont-en.fmt'!"

On Luigi Scarso's page (http://wiki.contextgarden.net/User:Luigi.scarso/modules.pdf) he suggests the following:

texexec --module --pdf core-tab.tex

but this returns no output at all, and no pdf.

I am working on Windows. I installed (this week) from the context/install/mswincontext.zip on the Pragma site and normally build from the Scite editor.

Can anyone suggest what I'm doing wrong?

The mswincontext package use local settings for the paths and you can use them only with scite or the setup script. You could try to add the path for the setuptext script to the global path variables to use LuaTeX etc. systemwide or you use the command line from scite.

You need to run something like (single line!!!): C:\Programs\context\usr\local\context\tex\setuptex.bat C:\Programs\context\usr\local\context\tex in command prompt. For "texexec --module --pdf core-tab.tex" to work you need to be in context base folder (tex/context/base; kpse makes sure that you find & take the proper file automatically), and you probably need to report a few problems in the source to be able to compile that particular source file :) Mojca