Hello, On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 08:52:44AM -0800, Wilfried Van Hirtum wrote: > I'm a complete ms word user who wants to convert to context to make his mathematical > textbooks. I have windows xp on my computer, but nothing (really nothing like perl, > editor's or distribution) else. What exactly have i to do make my pc work with > context? First, welcome in the club.
You need a TeX distribution. There are three possible starting points: a) TeX Live - http://www.tug.org/texlive/ b) fpTeX - http://www.fptex.org/ c) MikTeX - http://www.miktex.org/ If you find someone who has a TeX Live CD it is probably the easiest way. TeX Live is up to date and contains a few editors (if I remember correctly). Otherwise try either fpTeX or MikTeX. (I personally like fpTeX more, it is more similar to Unix's teTeX and part of TeX Live, but it is really a matter of taste.) Both MikTeX and fpTeX should contain a not-too-old version of ConTeXt. I don't know whether you need to install PERL as well or whether it is included with the installer of (a),(b) and/or (c). Otherwise, it is available from http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl/ Having GhostScript (a PostScript viewer) is also nice, it is available from http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/doc/AFPL/get811.htm and you should get GSView too. For an editor, I remember that I used PFE back then 5 (?) years ago. But there are probably better one available. I found this list, but I cannot give a recommondation: http://home.nexgo.de/itsfd/texwin.htm > By the way, don't say to me to read the how to install context manual which are not > meant to read by absolute beginners. Well, it requires you to have TeX installed, which is already a false assumption for real beginners ;) > I would appreciate your advise very much. I hope some with more recent experience in TeX on Windows will jump in. Regards, Tobias _______________________________________________ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
