Re: [NTG-context] TeX Live 2003 miseries.
At 01:11 15/10/2003, you wrote:
1. the perl scripts were confused by the embedded spaces in the default "c:\Program Files\.." install path. In general, ConTeXt does not play well for paths that have embedded spaces.
http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/mswintex (just runsetuptex,bat in the path where it is) http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/linuxtex (run setuptex and generate formats) is the minimum that you need for context. For windows the trick is in using irun in the right way, i.e. either use a full path spec or something relative like ../../whatever (which is what i've done there); i didn't test it for "program files" Hans
On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, Hans Hagen wrote:
At 01:11 15/10/2003, you wrote:
1. the perl scripts were confused by the embedded spaces in the default "c:\Program Files\.." install path. In general, ConTeXt does not play well for paths that have embedded spaces.
http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/mswintex (just runsetuptex,bat in the path where it is) http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/linuxtex (run setuptex and generate formats)
is the minimum that you need for context. For windows the trick is in using irun in the right way, i.e. either use a full path spec or something relative like ../../whatever (which is what i've done there); i didn't test it for "program files"
The other place where spaces cause problems is in the user's "HOME"
directory. TeXLive looks in %HOME%/texmf, and texexec creates a
texfilename.tmp with a reference to %HOME%. On my brief foray into WinXP
the default HOME location had a space. We are expecting a bunch of
Win9x users (currently with 4allTeX) to be converted to WinXP using
a departmental standard configuration, and I need a full TeX that will
play nicely with that (I did suggest that our users would be better
off running linux in vmware).
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