Hamid Kamrani wrote:

That is a pretty interesting ConTeXt question. I mean it makes a laudable effort to bring ConTeXt into its context!!

On 8/9/07, Idris Samawi Hamid wrote:

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Dear gang,

To all you expert script writers and batch wizards on Windows, I have a question:

I want to create a batch file to open a program so that it will search the contents of C:\ConTeXt, which contains my entire system, including subdirectories. For example, if foo.tex is a file in C:\ConTeXt, and goo.exe is some program, then for

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goo.bat foo.tex I want goo to seach C:\ConTeXt for foo.tex. Is there a straightforward way to edit the following to get this effect?

============================ rem batch file

goo % ============================

Any pointers will be appreciated.

well, if it's part of the tree ... texmfstart bin:scite file:context.tex or texmfstart --edit file:texmf.cnf or mtxrun .... or ..... Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

Idris Samawi Hamid wrote:

On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 03:54:14 -0600, Hans Hagen wrote:

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I want to create a batch file to open a program so that it will search the contents of C:\ConTeXt, which contains my entire system, including subdirectories. For example, if foo.tex is a file in C:\ConTeXt, and goo.exe is some program, then for

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goo.bat foo.tex I want goo to seach C:\ConTeXt for foo.tex. Is there a straightforward way to edit the following to get this effect?

============================ rem batch file

goo % ============================

Any pointers will be appreciated.

well, if it's part of the tree ...

But what if it's not part of the tree? For example

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Acrobat.lnk cow.pdf

Now you will say, "Why not use texmfstart --file=showcase.pdf --program=context"

Answer: Because texmfstart always resizes the acrobat window, and I want to keep the relative positions of my editor and viewer the same at all times. (of course showcase.pdf is full screen-mode but the restore position is still resized). This is also why I don't use the --autopdf option.

If one opens Acrobat with a link file this does not happen: the relative position generally stays the same as when it was last closed. If I make LNK executable in System Properties then I can use the following batch file

Acrobat.lnk %*

which will start its argument without resizing the window. So what I need is a batch file such that, from a console, I can say

Acrobat.bat cow.pdf

and C:\context will be searched for the file.

How can I do this?

I hope this is clearer. I wrote the question more abstractly because there could be many programs one may want to operate on the context tree.

mtxrun --launch cow.pdf ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

Idris Samawi Hamid wrote:

On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 09:46:57 -0600, Hans Hagen wrote:

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well, if it's part of the tree ...

But what if it's not part of the tree? For example

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Acrobat.lnk cow.pdf

Now you will say, "Why not use texmfstart --file=showcase.pdf --program=context"

Answer: Because texmfstart always resizes the acrobat window, and I want to keep the relative positions of my editor and viewer the same at all times. (of course showcase.pdf is full screen-mode but the restore position is still resized). This is also why I don't use the --autopdf option.

If one opens Acrobat with a link file this does not happen: the relative position generally stays the same as when it was last closed. If I make LNK executable in System Properties then I can use the following batch file

Acrobat.lnk %*

which will start its argument without resizing the window. So what I need is a batch file such that, from a console, I can say

Acrobat.bat cow.pdf

and C:\context will be searched for the file.

How can I do this?

I hope this is clearer. I wrote the question more abstractly because there could be many programs one may want to operate on the context tree.

mtxrun --launch cow.pdf

=========== mtxrun --launch cow.pdf Error in lua file loading: C:\ConTeXt\tex\texmf-mswin\bin\mtxrun.lua:3055: attempt to index local 'filename' (a nil value) ===========

yes, that was broken, will upload soon

Also, I don't see how this relates to the resizing issue. Is there an option to mtxrun that, say, launches the pdf through the LNK shortcut instead of the EXE.? I saw the following lines in conedt.ini:

============ &Acrobat Reader Acrobat Reader %P %$('AcroRead'); "%P\%N.pdf" Acrobat Reader %P\%N.pdf ============

Is this where texmfstart gets its launch information for --autopdf etc? Or am I supposed to leave these alone?

dunno, i suppose that you can mtxrun bin:cow.lnk cow.pdf but i didn't test that (no links and need for links here) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

Idris Samawi Hamid wrote:

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dunno, i suppose that you can mtxrun bin:cow.lnk cow.pdf but i didn't test that (no links and need for links here)

Mixed results:

================ mtxrun.cmd bin:Acrobat.lnk file:showcase.pdf ================

This opens Acrobat correctly (yay!)

But...

"... This file cannot be found"

so mtx is not searching the entire tree for the file?

it should it if it's in the tree mtxrun.cmd bin:Acrobat.lnk --pattern=show*.pdf ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------