On Saturday, July 02, 2011 11:03:36 am John Culleton wrote: > On Saturday, July 02, 2011 10:45:24 am John Culleton wrote: > > Followed this wiki, > > http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_Minimals > > > > installed in my personal directory. > > > > Now for the most elementary quetsion: Given the file > > foo.tex how do I actually run mkiv context on it? > > I tried > > mtxrun template.tex > > and I get the error: > > ./template.tex:1: unexpected symbol near '\' > > > > template.tex is an outline of a Context file: > > --------------------------- > > And here is template.tex: > \starttext > \startfrontmatter > \startstandardmakeup > %\input title.tex > \stopstandardmakeup > \completecontent > %\input preface.tex > \stopfrontmatter > \startbodymatter > Hello world. > %\input body.tex > \stopbodymatter > \startbackmatter > \completeindex > \stopbackmatter > \stoptext > > Tried running it as a plain texexec (MKII) file and got > this message: > > bash-4.1$ texexec template.tex > MTXrun | kpse fallback with progname 'context' initialized > in 0.09 seconds > /usr/local/texlive/2010/../texmf- > local/scripts/context/ruby/texexec.rb:8:in `require': no > such file to load -- ftools (LoadError) > from /usr/local/texlive/2010/../texmf- > local/scripts/context/ruby/texexec.rb:8:in `<main>' > > I have a standard texlive 2010 installation. I have been > able to run ordinary tex, pdftex etc. files before today. > I also was able to run Context files without a problem. > > I will switch to an old partition that has no minimals > installation and see if that will fly on the same file.
OK instead I ran /home/safe/context/tex/setuptex again, then context template.tex and it worked as a user. The setuptex must be run in each console I use. I'll create a script to simplify things in case I forget again. -- John Culleton "Death Wore Black" Police procedural: http://www.deathworeblack.com/ "Create Book Covers with Scribus" http://booklocker.com/books/4055.html
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