Re: sugestion for Lout - token stack

[Giovanni Zezza]

Il Sat, 30 Mar 2002 13:38:27 +0100 (MET), Oliver Bandel scriveva:

>> It isn't exactly "a Program", it's a Format
>
>It's a program. It's written in Perl.

Sorry, look better. ConTeXt isn't written in Perl; it's written in TeX (from
the official ConTeXt documentation):

>   Preamble 
>
>   This document presents licence information on ConT E Xt, a macro
>   package written in the typographical programming language T E X.
>...
>   [1.2] The ConT E Xt distribution includes T E X macro files as well as
>   some utility programs written in Perl and Perl/Tk and some graphic
>   macros written in the METAPOST language.


There are some utilities written in Perl (texec and so on), but ConTeXt
itself is a format (i.e. a macro package), like LaTeX and/or Plain TeX.

>> (i.e. a precompiled bunch of
>> macros), like Plain TeX and LaTeX. It uses pdfeTeX as "virgin" compiler,
>> though, instead of TeX.
>
>Sure?

To be sure, I'm sure, yessure.

Actually, it's not only me that I'm sure, it's, again, the official ConTeXt
documentation itself that's sure, too:

>   Setting up T E X EXEC
>
>   T E Xexec is the command line interface to ConT E Xt. There is nothing
>   wrong with run-ning ConT E Xt in the traditional way, like
>
>        pdfetex &cont-en --progname=context filename
>
>   but, and this will be more clear when we provide more options, the next 
> call is more
>   convenient:
>
>       texexec filename

And, from texexec.ini:

>for  tetex  set  TeXExecutable     to  pdfetex

>for  miktex  set  TeXExecutable     to  pdftex

So, either directly or via texexec, you have to run pdf(e)tex.

Ciao.

P.S. By the way, buona Pasqua.