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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

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

== Additional configuration == === Using Latin Modern fixed-width font in SciTE === The default font in SciTE is a variable-width sansserif (Arial or similar). If you prefer to use a fixed-width font while coding, the minimal distribution comes with a neat Latin Modern font for this purpose. You can find the font at ''\yourcontextmainfolder''\texmf-context\fonts\truetype\hoekwater\lm\lmtypewriter10-regular.ttf The only thing you need For tips on how to do is configure SciTe to install the font as you'd install any TrueType font in suit your Windows. If you SciTE is otherwise correctly setup (i.e. step 3 is done)ConTeXting needs, it'll automatically start using see the new font. NB[[Scite#Configuring_SciTe_with_ConTeXt_on_Windows| Scite page]]. It seems that this font doesn't have any Cyrillic, so add the font only if using just Roman letters. === 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>