On Saturday, July 02, 2011 10:45:24 am John Culleton wrote:

> Followed this wiki,

> http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_Minimals

> installed in my personal directory.

>

> Now for the most elementary quetsion: Given the file

> foo.tex how do I actually run mkiv context on it?

> I tried

> mtxrun template.tex

> and I get the error:

> ./template.tex:1: unexpected symbol near '\'

>

> template.tex is an outline of a Context file:

> ---------------------------

And here is template.tex:

\starttext

\startfrontmatter

\startstandardmakeup

%\input title.tex

\stopstandardmakeup

\completecontent

%\input preface.tex

\stopfrontmatter

\startbodymatter

Hello world.

%\input body.tex

\stopbodymatter

\startbackmatter

\completeindex

\stopbackmatter

\stoptext

Tried running it as a plain texexec (MKII) file and got this message:

bash-4.1$ texexec template.tex

MTXrun | kpse fallback with progname 'context' initialized in 0.09 seconds

/usr/local/texlive/2010/../texmf-local/scripts/context/ruby/texexec.rb:8:in `require': no such file to load -- ftools (LoadError)

from /usr/local/texlive/2010/../texmf-local/scripts/context/ruby/texexec.rb:8:in `<main>'

I have a standard texlive 2010 installation. I have been able to run ordinary tex, pdftex etc. files before today.

I also was able to run Context files without a problem.

I will switch to an old partition that has no minimals installation and see if that will fly on the same file.

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