I wrote

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To run Context, I made a WinShell User Defined Tool, as follows. In Options => General => Userdefined I did

... exefile = pdfetex ... cmd line = &cont-en

Hans Hagen replied

maybe you need to change the pdfetex in texexec here, or better

exefile = texexec cmfline = --pdf --int=en

given that you want to force the english interface,

When I run the above (Win98, TeXLive 7) the WinShell reporting window says "TeXExec 2.8 ConTeX ... and WinShell then hangs, only closes on ctl alt del If I add "%s.tex" so the tool cmd-Line reads ... exe-File=texexec ... cmd-Line= --pdf --int=en %s.tex I get "There is no Main-TeX-Document! Please check the options!" I tried to learn from WinShell's own tool (F5) Which runs LaTeX out of the box. But a clone of that tool ... exe-File=latex ... cmd-Line=%s.tex Also gives "There is no Main-TeX-Document! Please check the options!" Conclusion - Looks like I dont understand WinShell either (I've cross posted the above to the WinShell bulletin board) Richard Hardwick