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Download For a 32 bit installation, download [http://standalone.contextgarden.net/setup/context-setup-mswin.zip context-setup-mswin.zip] onto your computer.For a 64 bit installation, download [http://standalone.contextgarden.net/setup/context-setup-win64.zip context-setup-win64.zip] onto your computer. It contains a folder called <tt>context</tt>, '''unzip/extract that folder to C:\, so the result is C:\context\.
Windows 10 64 bit Installation 2019 (view source)
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{{note | You will need admin rights to your Windows to manage the installation process. If you don't have that, get somebody who does.}}
This instruction was written 2019 April 13 and is intended to install Context ConTeXt standalone distribution (Mark IV).My intent is to deliver a up-to-date manual that every noob can use, and not to refer to old versions (e.g. from 2011).
==Chapter 1: Detect Windows 32 or 64 bit Version==At fist, get to know if I’m Running 32-bit or 64-bit Windows.Please follow [https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/21726/how-do-i-know-if-im-running-32-bit-or-64-bit-windows-answers/ https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/21726/how-do-i-know-if-im-running-32-bit-or-64-bit-windows-answers/] or other tutorials. ==Chapter 2: Install ConTeXt==
===Step 1: Download and unzip the installer===
Open Command promt. Do this by using Cortana: Search for cmd.exe. Right click on the search result and select "run as admin".
Command prompt should be in C:\Users\MyUserName\
Type in "cd.. " -> Enter -> Once again type in "cd.. " -> Enter Now you are should be at path "C:\". If not, repeat "cd.." Type in "cd context"
You are now at C:\context
Tpe in <tt>first-setup.bat</tt> -> Enter.
This should print out much output and take a while (maybe 5 mins).
Check if there is a folder C:\context\tex
If no such folder has been created, this step failed. (It failed for me using <tt>C:\Programme\context</tt> and I resolved it by using <tt>C:\context\</tt>
===Step 3: Add ConTeXt to Windows search path===
(Please also note [https://superuser.com/questions/284342/what-are-path-and-other-environment-variables-and-how-can-i-set-or-use-them]) You will have to go to the system settings of your Windows and add you will have to add <tt>C:\context\tex\texmf-win64\bin</tt> (or <tt>C:\context\tex\texmf-mswin\bin</tt> for using <tt>context-setup-mswin.zip</tt>) to the search path (environment variable <tt>path</tt> under advanced system properties). If you are the only user on the computer needing ConTeXt, you can put it under "user variables", otherwise add it to the existing search path listing"global variables".
Do this by:
Right click on "Dieser PC" or "this PCThis Computer" and select "Eigenschaften/Settings".Then on the left side, click on "erweiterte Systemeinstellungen/extended change my environment variables" or something like "Extended Settings".
In the small popup "Systemeigenschaften/System settings" select the slider "Erweitert/extended".Select the button "Umgebungsvariablen/environment Environment variables".
Select PATH, lick on button "edit" and ad a new row with <tt>C:\context\tex\texmf-win64\bin</tt>(or <tt>C:\context\tex\texmf-mswin\bin</tt> for using <tt>context-setup-mswin.zip</tt>)
If the resulting listing contains the address <tt>C:\context\tex\texmf-win64\bin</tt> (or <tt>C:\context\tex\texmf-mswin\bin</tt> for using <tt>context-setup-mswin.zip</tt>) , your computer knows where to find ConTeXt.
This step is an alternative to run setuptex.bat which is located in C:\context\tex\
==Chapter 3: Test ConTeXt==
Now you are ready to test ConTeXt. Start a simple text editor (like 'editor', Notepad++, NOT MS WORD)
<pre>
\starttext
Hello, world!
\stoptext
</pre>
Save the document as <tt>C:\context\helloworld.tex</tt>.
Open command prompt and go to c:\context (as we did at 'Install ConTeXt' - Step 2)
type in
<pre>
context helloworld.tex
</pre>
Open the file explorer and browse to <tt>C:\context\</tt>.
Check if there is a helloworld.pdf. Open it to check its content.
And that's it, basically. If you got your pdf and love to write using this editor, you can continue this way.
Still I'd recommend using TeXworks.
==Chapter 4: Install TeXworks==
Now you have ConTeXt. To complement it, i.e. to easily write and compile ConTeXt files, install the TeXworks editor.
===Step 1: Get TeXworks===
Browse to [http://www.tug.org/texworks/ http://www.tug.org/texworks/]
and download the exe file and execute it to install TeXworks.
During installation, I recommend to register (only) ".tex" files to the application. Disable the other ones.
==Step 2: Ready, steady, test!==
Start TeXWorks.
In the dropdown, select "ConTeXt (LuaTex)"
Now you are ready to go.
Type in:
<pre>
\starttext
Hello, world!
\stoptext
</pre>
Save the document as <tt>helloworld.tex</tt>.
Now click on the green button to build your file.
After there are some lines of compiler output, a pdf file should open and you should see your "hello world".
=Other ConTeXt distributions=
{{note | This part needs to be checked if it is still up-to-date in 2019 }}
As a Windows user, you can choose between the following installation alternatives:
* ConTeXt standalone distribution
* MikTeX
* Texlive
* W32TeX
=Literature=
[http://meeting.contextgarden.net/2008/talks/2008-08-21-willi-aditya-beginners/Tutorial-text.pdf Aditya Mahajan, Willi Egger: Beginners Tutorial ConTeXt. (PDF; 371 kB) 20. August 2008]
[http://pmrb.free.fr/contextref.pdf Hans Hagen, Taco Hoekwater: ConTeXt Reference Manual. (PDF; 2,04 MB) 27. September 2013]
