[NTG-context] More on compiling --- texmstart

9 Nov 2004

      All,

OK, it seems the times are passing me by. I am running Miktex 2.4. It comes
with Context installed and there is a texexec.exe in /texmf/miktex/bin,
which is on my path. 

C:\CONTEXT\PRACTICE>path
PATH=C:\Perl\bin\;C:\texmf\miktex\bin;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WIND
OWS\
System32\Wbem;c:\yandy\yandytex;c:\yandy\dviwind

After enabling write18 and setting these in my cont-sys.tex,

\runMPgraphicstrue
\runMPTEXgraphicstrue
\useMETAFUNformattrue

I could not get Context to build Metapost graphics on the fly (at least in
my test file).

I have installed Ruby. After reading:

http://www.contextgarden.net/Update_Hints

I tried the following:

texmfstart --make texexec.pl

This built a texexec.bat, which I moved to /texmf/miktex/bin, where I also
renamed texexec.exe to texexec.exe.bak. As a result, the file below compiled
nicely and I had my graphic in the background.

However, this killed Context running in Auctex and Emacs, which will no
longer compile the file below. I get the error message in the attached log
file.

Any thoughts on how I can get going in Auctex again?

The file junk.tex:

\setupoutput[pdf]

\setupwhitespace[medium]

  \startuniqueMPgraphic{concept} draw btex \bf CONCEPT etex rotated 60
  withcolor .8white; currentpicture:=currentpicture ysized
  (\overlayheight-0.5cm); \stopuniqueMPgraphic

  \defineoverlay[concept][\uniqueMPgraphic{concept}]

\setupbackgrounds[page][background=concept]

  \starttext

  Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their
  country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of
  their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid
  of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the
  aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to
  the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come
  to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to
  come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men
  to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good
  men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all
  good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for
  all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time
  for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the
  time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.

  \stoptext

[NTG-context] More on compiling --- texmstart

Arnold, David