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''Note. Valid as of September 2009. All instructions tested on newly installed Windows Vista mid-October 2009 and it worked. Without Ruby.''

This page gives instructions on how to easily install ConTeXt Minimals Standalone and the SciTe editor on your XP or Vista so that you can compile a document with a few mouse-clicks. If this is not what you want to do, see the [[Installation]] page instead.

* '''ConTeXt''': Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky's [http://minimals.contextgarden.net/setup/context-installer/ContextMinimalInstall.exe Windows installer] for the Minimals Standalone is a hassle-free alternative* '''SciTE''' Editor: Go The easiest way is to Scintillaget Troy Simpson's [http://http://wwwopensource.scintillaebswift.orgcom/SciTEDownload.html SciTE Download Page] and get [http:SciTEInstaller//prdownloads.sourceforge.net/scintilla/wscite201.zip?download full downloadWindows installer for SciTe] in the "Windows executables" section. Make sure you get wscite.zip (''not'' scite.zip).

You will need internet to get the rest of ConTeXt while installing, which is why the Minimals Standalone Installer is so small itself.

{{note| As of June 2011, The GUI installer still seems to be broken (at least in 64-bit Windows7), so you may have to [[ConTeXt_Standalone#Command_line_method| install the standalone from the command line]]. In that case you will have to add <tt>C:\''yourcontextfolder''\tex\texmf-mswin\bin</tt> to the search path (remember to reboot the computer after this, before you attempt to use your ConTeXt with SciTE).}} == Step 2: Install ConTeXt and SciTE ==

Now all the components of a working system are installed: ConTeXt Minimals Standalone and SciTE for ConTeXt MKIV (only), ConTeXt MinimalsStandalone, SciTE and Ruby for ConTeXt MKIV and MKII.

== Step 3: Configure == # In your ConTeXt files (default name of the main folder is <tt>contextminimal</tt>) locate <tt>scite-ctx.lua</tt>. Copy this file to your recently unzipped SciTE SciTe program folder (by if you used the Windows installer, the default called <tt>wscite</tt>location is under Program Files).# Again in your ConTeXt files, locate <tt>scite-ctx.properties</tt> and <tt>context.properties</tt>. Copy these files to your ''personal profile folder''; in XP that's usually <tt>C:\Documents and Settings\''yourusername''\</tt> (or the equivalent in your language), in Vista and Windows7 <tt>C:\Users\''yourusername''</tt>.# Now open SciTE by double-clicking on the SciTE icon. You still need to tell it where to look for the ConTeXt related settings. For this, go to the ''Options'' menu and click on ''Open User Options File''. You should get a blank page. Now type into the file

If you feel courageous, first switch encoding via the File menu to UTF-8 (if you haven't forced your SciTE to do it) and do it in Finnish (just cut and paste from below, if your keyboard doesn't do diacritics):

Or, even betterif you are really adventurous, do it in first make sure you are using UTF-8, then try to paste the following Russiantext into your SciTE (cut-and-paste may give you a few challenges so this may or may not work):

Now you have a simple ConTeXt document. Press Save it (file type/extension is <tt>tex</tt>), then press Ctrl+1 (or go to ''Tools'' and then ''Process TeX file''), sit back and watch. If everything was done right, first you'll have a lot of text on the right side of your SciTE screen, then an empty pdf reader opens, then it takes a bit more time and finally you end up with your new a one-page pdf in your Acrobat Readerthat has a page number on top and the text a bit below. If you tried Russian and only get the page number, you have a font problem - backtrack a bit and try English or Finnish first... == Additional configuration ==

The default font in SciTE is a variable-width sansserif (Arial or similar). If you prefer '''For tips on how to configure SciTe to use a fixed-width font while codingsuit your ConTeXting needs, see the minimal distribution comes with a neat Latin Modern font for this purpose[[Scite#Configuring_SciTe_with_ConTeXt_on_Windows| Scite page]]. You can find the font at ''\yourcontextmainfolder''\texmf-context\fonts\truetype\hoekwater\lm\lmtypewriter10-regular.ttf

The only thing you need to do is to install the font as you'd install any TrueType font in your Windows. If you SciTE is otherwise correctly setup (i.e. step 3 is done), it'll automatically start using the new font.   === Forcing SciTE to use UTF-8 as default encoding === If you plan to use SciTE only for ConTeXt or if all your files are in UTF-8 anyway, you can make UTF-8 as your default encoding. Especially if you start "from scratch", this is recommended! To change the encoding setting, open SciTE and go to ''Options'' and there to ''Open Global Properties''. Find ''Internationalisation'' in the settings file:<pre># Internationalisation# Japanese input code page 932 and ShiftJIS character set 128#code.page=932#character.set=128# Unicode#code.page=65001code.page=0#character.set=204</pre> Now '''uncomment <tt>#code.page=65001</tt>''' (i.e. remove the hash sign) and '''comment <tt>code.page=0</tt>''' (i.e. add a hash in front of the line. Now your internationalisation settings should look like this:<pre># Internationalisation# Japanese input code page 932 and ShiftJIS character set 128#code.page=932#character.set=128# Unicodecode.page=65001#code.page=0#character.set=204</pre>Now save the settings file, close it, then close SciTE. When you restart SciTE, UTF-8 should be the default encoding.{{Installation navbox}}