On 03/09/2016 10:57 PM, L.S.-Soc&Gam wrote:
i downloaded ConTeXt from contextgarden and so far i saw three options to download
first i found folders setup and setup2? which one should i use? in one of them there are win32 and win64 zips. and in the other are win32, win64 plus a mswin zip. which one is the correct one? since i am on Win10x64 i downloaded context-setup-win64.zip.
Hi Sebastian, I’m not on Win10, but I guess this was the right file.
i unzipped the file, started command as admin and went to Con dir. there i entered: first-setup.bat --modules=all everything went fine and i added the win64 folder which Con installer showed me at the end to my system paths. as far as i know, an update is done the same way. please correct me if i am wrong.
Yes, updates may be performed invoking the same command.
in TeXnicCenter i added a new profile. on (La)TeX register i have activated: Run LaTeX in this profile.
in the path to compiler field i entered: F:\Sandbox\ConTeXt\tex\setuptex.bat & F:\Sandbox\ConTeXt\tex\texmf-win64\bin\texmfstart.exe
question: do i need both entries?
I don’t think so. The second entry isn’t required at all.
in the command line field i entered: texexec.rb --batch --nonstop --pdf --color "%bm" --synctex=-1
BibTeX is deactivated, MakeIndex isn't used either.
MakeIndex isn’t required in ConTeXt. (Indices aren’t generated using MakeIndex in ConTeXt, afaIk.) BibTeX may work, but there is a much better bibliographic module being developed.
well and it works. but not without ruby: why do i need ruby? i would use mkiv only if i could. i also worked with Hex color codes but then everything is black untill i add \setupcolor[hex] to the document. i read that this line is only needed in mkiv, so again i am wondering why i am obviously using mkii instead of mkiv...
The command line for MkIV should read "context source-file.tex". BTW, ruby isn’t required for MkIV.
the last question for now is: how can i stop pdfTeX.exe from warning me that no GlyphToUnicode entry has been inserted yet. i read somewhere that this can be ignored but nobody explains what this is and how it works. i just don't want to read this every time but fix it. and what is meant with bad boxes? i read "Underfull \hbox (badness 10000) in paragraph..." but don't know how to fix this.
Warnings fron pdftex will dissapear when you switch to MkIV :-). "Underfull \hbox" may be caused by wrong hyphenation? Would it be possible that you were compiling a German (or non-English text)? In such case, please add "\mainlanguage[de]" in the first line of your source document.
i would also have questions related to SciTE, because i can't make UTF-8 work following the desctiption on contextgarden, but for now i would be happy if i could take the most out of context within TeXnicCenter.
Never used SciTE in Windows. Notepad++ works fine for me on Win7 (but I’m no ConTeXt expert). Just in case it helps, Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk