On 28 juin 2006, at 15:11, Taco Hoekwater wrote:

Mojca Miklavec wrote: with the content ruby path-to-context-ruby-scripts/texmfstart.rb

What I have is this simple script (and it should work on MacOSX just as well). Name it 'texfmstart', make it executable, fill in the correct path and put it in a binaries directory.

#!/bin/sh ruby path-to-context-ruby-scripts/texmfstart.rb $@

Cheers, taco

Hi Mojca and Taco, Thanks to your insights I could finally manage to get rid of the "warning: use 'texmfstart texexec' instead"... Needless to say I feel very proud now :-) For all those who are shy like me (!) and don't dare ask too trivial questions, here is what one can do on Mac OS X (and, mutatis mutandis, probably on any Unix like system): 0) I have teTeX and ConTeXt installed (and updated quite often...) with Gerben Wierda's i-Installer. In principle there is a directory (folder...) named /usr/local/teTeX/bin/ if you have installed TeX in /usr/local. Otherwise with the command locate in a Terminal window find the directory teTeX/bin/. Here there should be a subdirectory named powerpc-apple-darwin7.9.0 or something like that (depending on the type of the processor you have?). Go there, for instance in my case: cd powerpc-apple-darwin7.9.0 2) Find the path to "texmfstart.rb": in the Terminal window type locate texmfstart.rb for instance on my system I have two "texmfstart.rb", /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/scripts/context/ruby/texmfstart.rb /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/scripts/context/ruby/texmfstart.rb the second one is old, while the first one is recent and installed with Gerben's i-Installer. I assumed (remember we are willing to use ConTeXt...) that the newer one is the right one... 3) In the Terminal window (while you are in the directory powerpc-apple-darwin7.9.0) type: sudo emacs texmfstart and after giving an su password, in the editor's window type the code given by Taco, that is the two following lines: #!/bin/sh ruby /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/scripts/context/ruby/texmfstart.rb $@ 4) Save and exit emacs by typing [CTRL]-X [CTRL]-S and then [CTRL]-X [CTRL]-C 5) You have created a script named texmfstart... Now you have to make it executable, so in the Terminal window (while you are in the directory powerpc-apple-darwin7.9.0) type sudo chmod +x texmfstart 6) Now if in any other Terminal window you type, for instance texmfstart or texmfstart --version you should get the version of texmfstart and a series of example usage. 7) If you go to a directory where you have a file named example.tex, then you can typeset it with ConTeXt by saying: texmfstart texexec example.tex and now you shouldn't have the "warning: use 'texmfstart texexe' instead". And you are done! Cheers: OK