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'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. Mojca