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\noindentation  The Earth, as a habitat for animal life, is in old age and has a fatal illness. Several, in fact.

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Below, we have two separate columns; but up here, for the nonce, we have but the one.

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  Text, text, text \dots

  all in the first column

\column

  Words, words, words \dots

  all in the second column.

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\input ward

\column

\input weisman

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After installing ConTeXt in WinEdt:

Command Line:   C:\Users\Hermann\Downloads\context-mswin\bin\mtxrun.exe --synctex=-1 "melon.tex"

Startup Folder: \\ub.univie.ac.at\U_Dom\Users G-L\Hermann\Documents\My Documents

mtxrun          | forcing cache reload

resolvers       | resolving | looking for regular 'texmfcnf.lua' on given path 'C:/Users/Hermann/texmf/web2c' from specification 'home:texmf/web2c'

resolvers       | resolving | looking for regular 'texmfcnf.lua' on given path 'C:/Users/Hermann/Downloads/texmf-local/web2c' from specification 'selfautoparent:/texmf-local/web2c'

resolvers       | resolving | looking for regular 'texmfcnf.lua' on given path 'C:/Users/Hermann/Downloads/texmf-context/web2c' from specification 'selfautoparent:/texmf-context/web2c'

resolvers       | resolving | looking for regular 'texmfcnf.lua' on given path 'C:/Users/Hermann/Downloads/texmf-dist/web2c' from specification 'selfautoparent:/texmf-dist/web2c'

resolvers       | resolving | looking for regular 'texmfcnf.lua' on given path 'C:/Users/Hermann/Downloads/texmf/web2c' from specification 'selfautoparent:/texmf/web2c'

resolvers       | resolving | looking for fallback 'contextcnf.lua' on given path 'C:/Users/Hermann/texmf/web2c' from specification 'home:texmf/web2c'

resolvers       | resolving | looking for fallback 'contextcnf.lua' on given path 'C:/Users/Hermann/Downloads/texmf-local/web2c' from specification 'selfautoparent:/texmf-local/web2c'

resolvers       | resolving | looking for fallback 'contextcnf.lua' on given path 'C:/Users/Hermann/Downloads/texmf-context/web2c' from specification 'selfautoparent:/texmf-context/web2c'

resolvers       | resolving | looking for fallback 'contextcnf.lua' on given path 'C:/Users/Hermann/Downloads/texmf-dist/web2c' from specification 'selfautoparent:/texmf-dist/web2c'

resolvers       | resolving | looking for fallback 'contextcnf.lua' on given path 'C:/Users/Hermann/Downloads/texmf/web2c' from specification 'selfautoparent:/texmf/web2c'

resolvers       | resolving |

resolvers       | resolving | warning: no lua configuration files found

resolvers       | resolving | no texmf paths are defined (using TEXMF)

resolvers       | resolving |

mtxrun          | the resolver databases are not present or outdated

resolvers       | resolving | using suffix based filetype 'scripts'

resolvers       | resolving | remembering file 'mtx-base.lua' using hash 'lua::mtx-base.lua'

resolvers       | resolving | using suffix based filetype 'scripts'

resolvers       | resolving | remembering file 'mtx-bases.lua' using hash 'lua::mtx-bases.lua'

resolvers       | resolving | remembered file 'mtx-base.lua'

resolvers       | resolving | using suffix based filetype 'scripts'

resolvers       | resolving | remembering file 'mtx-t-mtx-base.lua' using hash 'lua::mtx-t-mtx-base.lua'

resolvers       | resolving | using suffix based filetype 'scripts'

resolvers       | resolving | remembering file 'mtx-t-mtx-bases.lua' using hash 'lua::mtx-t-mtx-bases.lua'

resolvers       | resolving | remembered file 'mtx-t-mtx-base.lua'

resolvers       | resolving | remembered file 'mtx-base.lua'

mtxrun          | unknown script 'mtx-base.lua' or 'mtx-mtx-base.lua'

There’s something wrong, but I don’t know what.

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