Hi Hans, On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:59:20 -0600, Hans Hagen wrote:

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texmfstart --locate texexec.rb

gives me

/texmf-context/scripts/context/ruby/texexec.rb

Any ideas on what's wrong? some messy ruby in your path you can make a small bat file that starts texmfstart @echo off setlocal ruby c:\pathtoscript\texmfstart.rb %* endlocal might work

$>"C:\ConTeXt\tex\texmf-context\scripts\context\ruby\texmfstart.rb" texexec ruby: no such file to load -- ubygems (LoadError) This makes no sense: texexec.rb and texmfstart.rb are in the same directory! I wonder why texmfstart can't find texexec... $>texmfstart --path "C:\ConTeXt\tex\texmf-context\scripts\context\ruby\texexec.rb" test.tex gives no error but does nothing else but return the command prompt.

or (what i have here) just add scripts/context/ruby to your PATH

did that and relogged in: does not work.

variable and associate .rb with ruby

XP already associates .rb files with the ruby interpreter. Stumped Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shi`i Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

Hi Hans, I think I found a clue: If I start a command shell (no scite or npp or other editor) and do setuptex c:\context\tex texmfstart texexec I get TeXExec | version 6.2.0 - 1997-2006 - PRAGMA ADE/POD TeXExec | --check check versions TeXExec | --figures generate overview of figures TeXExec | --listing list of file content TeXExec | --make make formats TeXExec | --modules generate module documentation TeXExec | --mpgraphic process mp file to stand-alone graphics TeXExec | --mpstatic process mp/ctx file to stand-alone graphics TeXExec | --mptex process mp file TeXExec | --mpxtex process mpx file TeXExec | --pdfarrange impose pages (booklets) TeXExec | --pdfcombine combine multiple pages TeXExec | --pdfcopy copy pages from file(s) TeXExec | --pdfselect select pages from file(s) TeXExec | --pdfsplit split file in pages TeXExec | --pdftrim trim pages from file(s) TeXExec | --process process file TeXExec | TeXExec | --help --all shows all switches If I click on cscite.bat scite opens. Then I do CTRL-6 for a window. then I do texmfstart texexec getting ruby: no such file to load -- ubygems (LoadError) Even setuptex c:\context\tex texmfstart texexec in scite gives me ruby: no such file to load -- ubygems (LoadError) Could there be something screwy in cscite.bat? Or setuptex.bat? 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

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

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

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

Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote:

Hi Hans, Mojca, and all,

I uninstalled ruby and reinstalled: no joy.

Then I uninstalled ruby and reinstalled without installing RubyGems.

Believe it or not that worked! I can compile the format and run mkii now.

This still leaves open the question as to how RubyGems and cscite.bat (which is the source of npp.bat for notepad++) are interfering with each other in the new minimals/maximal (what is "ubygems" without the "r" anyway?). Might be worth investigating at some point...

it's because those gems packages overload some library location mechanisms (they kind of dictate a structure and ignore the fact that one might want to ship script with libs in a different way); texexec cus coul dnot operate in such an environment without installers which would add another level of complexity the same is true for lua and luarocks which also can sit in the way; however, this does not hurt luatex because we have an isolated environment here Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------