Re: [NTG-context] texmfstart texexec

On Thu, 14 Aug 2008 02:15:39 -0600, Hans Hagen wrote:

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On Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:26:02 -0600, Hans Hagen wrote:

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Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote:

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Could there be something screwy in cscite.bat? Or setuptex.bat?

what does

echo %PATH%

report? \test>echo %PATH% C:\ConTeXt\goodies\bin;C:\ConTeXt\xmllib\bin;C:\ConTeXt\gs\bin;C:\ConTeXt\ruby\bin;C:\ConTeXt\tex\texmf-mswin\bin; [followed by the rest of my global environment variables, including the presets following]

C:\ConTeXt;C:\ConTeXt\tex;C:\ConTeXt\tex\texmf-mswin\bin;C:\ConTeXt\tex\texmf-project\bin\miktex-bin;

C:\ConTeXt\tex\texmf-project\bin\fptex-bin;C:\ConTeXt\tex\texmf-context\scripts\context\ruby; ^^^^^^^^^

Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote: old

Those are some old aleph utilites for making ocp's, ofm's etc. cobbled from ancient versions of miktex and fptex -- sometimes the miktex binary would work but not the fptex binary and vice versa -)

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C:\ConTeXt\tex\texmf-local\scripts\context\stubs\mswin;C:\ruby\bin;C:\Perl\bin\;

i wonder if c:\ruby\bin is the problem;

can you run ruby texmfstart,rb ?

ruby: No such file or directory -- texmfstart.rb (LoadError)

(this while script becoming a exe is quite painful and fragile, which is why i always run things by stub)

there is no texmfstart.bat in \scripts\context\stubs\mswin Is there another way?

also, if you use luatex ... you can adapt the scite properties files (user ones) to use 'context' instead of 'texexec'

luatex/context.cmd is working, it's just that I want to be able to compile the pdftex format for testing, legacy files, etc. Otherwise I am gradually moving everything over to luatex. For the record, going back to my backup context works. texmfstart.exe and the scripts seem the same. The only difference I can see is going from texmf-local to -context. I wonder what's triggering this. Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shi`i Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523