Ok, I have to apologize for being so vague. I tried to install proTEXT with the 2007 DVD. Installation invariably failed whether I chose ConTeXt or proTEXT at the dialog box. After that, I downloaded the standalone Windows distribution from the Pragma-ADE site. It downloaded and extracted OK, and running cstart.bat opens SciTE, as probably it should. I have some way to go to typeset my first document, but I think I will manage. I suppose there is no 'install' choise after this point. Again, sorry for wasting some of your time. I had only used the simple OS X installation with TeXShop so far. Thanks, Vassilis ----- Original Message ----- From: "Aditya Mahajan" To: Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 6:22 PM Subject: Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt installation in Vista

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Has anybody installed ConTeXt in Windows Vista? I am running into problems.

How are you trying to install it: MikTeX, TeXlive, ConTeXt minimals, or ConTeXt standalone distribution. The easiest to install should be ConTeXt standalone which is generated by Hans, and since Hans also uses Vista, it should work on Vista.

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Mojca Miklavec wrote:

One thing that you can try is this installer: http://minimals.contextgarden.net/setup/context-installer/ContextMinimalInst... That one will install ConTeXt, but has not been tested on Vista yet

I've got a spare Windows Vista Basic (ENG) in a corner somewhere, I can try on that one so nobody has to mess up with a system they actually need. Bugreports will probably be forthcoming within the next week. :) ...about time to start upgrading to MKIV anyway, I'm still running on MKII as can't risk the installation on the main computer right now... Mari

On Feb 7, 2008 9:48 PM, Βασίλης Γκολφινόπουλος wrote:

I tried it and I get the Application Error: texlua.exe - the application failed to inialize properly (0xc0000022).

OK, that means that environment settings (the way it's done in the installer) apparently have no effect on Vista. You could teoretically try to set set CYGWIN=nontsec somewhere globally, then it would work at the beginning at least, but it probably wouldn't set the global variables properly anyway. What I usually did was creating a file pragmatex.bat like C:\Programs\context\usr\local\context\tex\setuptex.bat C:\Programs\context\usr\local\context\tex and then called "pragmatex" to initialize the environment every time I wanted to use it. Mojca

----- Original Message ----- From: "Mari Voipio" To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 10:35 PM Subject: Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt installation in Vista

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Mojca Miklavec wrote:

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One thing that you can try is this installer:

http://minimals.contextgarden.net/setup/context-installer/ContextMinimalInst... That one will install ConTeXt, but has not been tested on Vista yet

I've got a spare Windows Vista Basic (ENG) in a corner somewhere, I can try on that one so nobody has to mess up with a system they actually need. Bugreports will probably be forthcoming within the next week. :)

...about time to start upgrading to MKIV anyway, I'm still running on MKII as can't risk the installation on the main computer right now...

Mari

Any bug reports welcome - but only Vyatcheslav knows how to solve the ones with installer. Mojca