NOTE: October 18, 2011: The contents of this page are partly obsolete. To start with, MK IV is warmly recommended nowadays, and the command used for various operations is no longer texexec , in MK IV it is (usually) context . At least try the other Windows installation pages, linked to this page, before following these instructions. |
first-setup.bat
from the command line. By default, this will download the beta version. If you want the stable version, add --context=current
C:contexttextexmf-mswinbin
to your user PATH, assuming you put your ConTeXt folder in C:
. This will allow you to run ConTeXt from the command line anywhere, using context filename.tex
.context.exe
is located. It is the same one you added to your PATH.context.exe
, the same as above. In the Arguments section, add $fullname
and you are done.gs851w32.exe
or a similar one) and preferrably GSview as well (gsv47w32.exe
or similar). Be sure to include the executables (folder where gswin32.exe is located) into the PATH variable.TODO: I made an example how to use the stand-alone distr. isolated from an existing distro. I would like to 'join' this somehow with the first section and move opening of cdemo.bat to something like testing the installation. Perhaps pragmatex.bat can be executed with autorun or something if one is not using another TeX distribution. (See: To-Do List) |
isoimage
folder to your favourite destination. The instructions to follow assume that you renamed isoimage
to There should be one folder (usr
) and a few files in it.c:Programscontext
and double-click cdemo.bat
.TODO: review these steps: join the information - notes about ruby, Acrobat, .. apply to all windows distributions. (See: To-Do List) |
pragmatex.bat
(the name doesn't really matter) with this content: and make sure that this file is visible by PATH
.texexec
will use files from the stand-alone tree (you'll notice the difference in file names when running ConTeXt).pragmatex
file in your ConTeXt directory, this will allow you to call ConTeXt from anywhere on your computer with one click. The disadvantage is that it's linked to a specific .tex file.
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