NOTE: October 18, 2011: The contents of this page are partly obsolete. To start with, MK IV is warmly recommended nowadays, and the command used for various operations is no longer texexec , in MK IV it is (usually) context . At least try the other Windows installation pages, linked to this page, before following these instructions. |
- 3TeX Distributions
- 4ConTeXt Standalone with TexWorks
- 5Special Notes
May 19, 2016 improvements for the window title based scene switching (full-screen / maximized detection, ignore windows) the ability select a different transition for each automated switch case (Transitions tab) automatically pause the scene switcher based on scene or window title; hotkey to start and stop the scene switcher; trigger actions on scene change. 50 Series Single Hung White Vinyl Window with Nailing Flange American Craftsman 50 Series single-hung American Craftsman 50 Series single-hung windows with nailing flange are designed for installation into new openings. A slim profile offers a contemporary look while maximizing your view and allowing more light into your home. Eusing Software - Hide windows program software,CD ripper freeware,registry cleaner,free window washer software.
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Requirements
In order to be able to run ConTeXt under Windows, you will need:
- a TeX distribution
- some scripting languages: Ruby is absolutely required (unless you plan to use MK IV exclusively), Perl and GhostScript are highly recommended, the rest is optional.
- your favorite text editor and PDF viewer
If this was too many options to your taste, try the Simple Windows Installation page instead.
Updating
You have to bear in mind that ConTeXt is being developed reasonably fast (see Release Notes), so it's recommended to update it regulary. The command
used to work OK, but is no more recommended. All the three distributions mentioned here have their own way to update. We'll come back to that later (and move this section to a better place).
You first need to choose a TeX distribution. Options are:
ConTeXt Standalone
- the official ConTeXt distribution
- easy to keep up-to-date
- includes (almost) everything that you need for ConTeXt
- no LaTeX
- if you don't need it, that's a rather small & convenient way to use ConTeXt
- if you need it, you can have ConTeXt Standalone installed parallel to TL or MikTeX
There are two ways to install it on Windows:
- use GUI intaller by Vyatcheslav [1] (sets environmental variables globally)
- install from command-line (TODO: instructions)
TeX Live
- reference distribution for (La)TeX for all platforms
- released once per year and sent to members of TeX user groups on DVDs
- used to be gigantic; but since 2008 one can install separate packages and update them
- binaries are compatible with ConTeXt Standalone
- ConTeXt is outdated
- but it's possible to update it manually
- new ConTeXt update mechanism is being prepared
Another distribution worth mentioning is W32TeX that came to our attention when Akira (its author) was the first one to manage to compile XeTeX for Windows, and still provides the very latest Windows binaries for XeTeX, LuaTeX, pdfTeX, MetaPost, .. Distribution is a bit specific, but his binaries are great - compatible with TeX Live and used in ConTeXt Standalone.
This assumes you are not already using a LaTeX distribution like MikTeX.
- You do not need to install Ruby first unless you want to run MkII.
- Download the ConTeXt Standalone here
- Run
first-setup.bat
from the command line. By default, this will download the beta version. If you want the stable version, add--context=current
- It is probably a good idea to make sure ConTeXt is visible from the PATH. In Windows 7, you should go to System > Advanced > Environment Variables and add
C:contexttextexmf-mswinbin
to your user PATH, assuming you put your ConTeXt folder inC:
. This will allow you to run ConTeXt from the command line anywhere, usingcontext filename.tex
. - Install the TexWorks standalone and accept the default options upon installation.
- Go to Preferences > Typesetting and add the directory where
context.exe
is located. It is the same one you added to your PATH.- Next, under Processing Tools, create a new one and call it anything you want. In the Progream field, enter the path of
context.exe
, the same as above. In the Arguments section, add$fullname
and you are done.
- Next, under Processing Tools, create a new one and call it anything you want. In the Progream field, enter the path of
- Now populate the screen with ConTeXt code, select ConTeXt and press Typeset. A PDF screen should pop up with the document.
GhostScript
If you already worked with (La)TeX before, you probably already have it installed. Try
You have to download GhostScript (filename gs851w32.exe
or a similar one) and preferrably GSview as well (gsv47w32.exe
or similar). Be sure to include the executables (folder where gswin32.exe is located) into the PATH variable.
Installation Instructions
TODO: I made an example how to use the stand-alone distr. isolated from an existing distro. I would like to 'join' this somehow with the first section and move opening of cdemo.bat to something like testing the installation. Perhaps pragmatex.bat can be executed with autorun or something if one is not using another TeX distribution. (See: To-Do List) |
by Ville Voipio on the mailing list, 2006-01-19 (modified)
Here is a step by step of how it should go (i.e. what I did with success):
- Install Perl and Ruby
- Download mswincontext.zip, unzip it and move/rename the
isoimage
folder to your favourite destination. The instructions to follow assume that you renamedisoimage
to There should be one folder (usr
) and a few files in it. - Open the folder
c:Programscontext
and double-clickcdemo.bat
. - Now you should see the editor SciTE open with a few files. Press F7 to compile one of the files.
If everything goes smoothly, you are done. If not, read these instructions again carefully. If you cannot get it work, mail the list.
TODO: review these steps: join the information - notes about ruby, Acrobat, .. apply to all windows distributions. (See: To-Do List) |
A few notes on the procedure above:
- It is up to you to choose the location where you unzip the file in step #2, no magic there. Just that you know where the files are.
- The actual location of the ConTeXt tree in step #2 does not matter. I use c:context, but you might use something else. However, I would not use anything with a space in the name (e.g. c:Program Filescontext), as that may confuse things. [Seems to work with an August 2006 stand-alone distribution.]
- After you have verified everything works in step #3, you can toss cdemo.bat away and use cstart.bat to start everything. Make a link to it somewhere so that you can start the system by a shortcut or through the Start menu. Do not move the batch script anywhere, it has to be run in the root directory of the distribution (e.g. c:Programscontext).
- Make sure you have something Acrobatish (any decent PDF viewer) installed, otherwise you won't see the results in step #4.
- A final note: to have it finally running you should build the formats first. To do so there is at least a way:
- Another way to do it could be to type: texexec --make --all directly in SciTe console.
How to use the stand-alone distr. if you have MikTeX/TeX Live installed
- Create a file
pragmatex.bat
(the name doesn't really matter) with this content: and make sure that this file is visible byPATH
. - You can safely continue using your old TeX distribution (MikTeX, TeX Live, ..). If you want to invoke the stand-alone distribution, just execute from the command-line and all the subsequent calls to
texexec
will use files from the stand-alone tree (you'll notice the difference in file names when running ConTeXt). - To avoid the need to open a new prompt each time you want to run ConTeXt, create another .bat file in your .tex file's folder with the following content:
If you place the pragmatex
file in your ConTeXt directory, this will allow you to call ConTeXt from anywhere on your computer with one click. Minecraft net redeem. The disadvantage is that it's linked to a specific .tex file.
Use the same .bat file to run ConTeXt with any .tex file
- You can use the .bat file above for any .tex file you have.
Just do the following modification:
and save it as ConTeXtthis.bat. Now, you can use it this way:
Where anyfile.tex is your main ConTeXt source file. This whole instruction works well whit TeXnicCenter
|
- Supported Bit Versions
- 32-bit, 64-bit
- Source Code URL
- https://github.com/WarmUpTill/SceneSwitcher
- Minimum OBS Studio Version
- 26.0.0
- Supported Platforms
- Windows, Mac OS X, Linux
- audio based scene switching (Audio tab)
- media based scene switching (Media tab)
- system time based scene switching (Time tab)
- sequence of automated scene switches (Scene Sequence tab)
- cursor position based scene switching (Region)
- the option to switch to a scene after detection of being idle (Idle tab)
- executable based scene switching (Executable tab)
- file content based scene swithcing (File)
- improvements for the window title based scene switching (full-screen / maximized detection, ignore windows)
- the ability select a different transition for each automated switch case (Transitions tab)
- automatically pause the scene switcher based on scene or window title
- hotkey to start and stop the scene switcher
- trigger actions on scene change
- and more ..
Select 'Go to download' for download and not 'Source Code URL'.
Installation Windows:
obs-plugins
' and 'data' folders in the respective OBS Studio installation directory.C:Program Files (x86)obs-studio
'.Installation macOS:
SceneSwitcher.pkg
file and either ..Contents/Plugins
' and the 'data' folder to 'Contents/Resources'.Library/Application Support/obs-studio/plugins/advanced-scene-switcher/bin/
.Library/Application Support/obs-studio/plugins/advanced-scene-switcher/
'.Installation Linux:
Installation Instructions
TODO: I made an example how to use the stand-alone distr. isolated from an existing distro. I would like to 'join' this somehow with the first section and move opening of cdemo.bat to something like testing the installation. Perhaps pragmatex.bat can be executed with autorun or something if one is not using another TeX distribution. (See: To-Do List) |
by Ville Voipio on the mailing list, 2006-01-19 (modified)
Here is a step by step of how it should go (i.e. what I did with success):
- Install Perl and Ruby
- Download mswincontext.zip, unzip it and move/rename the
isoimage
folder to your favourite destination. The instructions to follow assume that you renamedisoimage
to There should be one folder (usr
) and a few files in it. - Open the folder
c:Programscontext
and double-clickcdemo.bat
. - Now you should see the editor SciTE open with a few files. Press F7 to compile one of the files.
If everything goes smoothly, you are done. If not, read these instructions again carefully. If you cannot get it work, mail the list.
TODO: review these steps: join the information - notes about ruby, Acrobat, .. apply to all windows distributions. (See: To-Do List) |
A few notes on the procedure above:
- It is up to you to choose the location where you unzip the file in step #2, no magic there. Just that you know where the files are.
- The actual location of the ConTeXt tree in step #2 does not matter. I use c:context, but you might use something else. However, I would not use anything with a space in the name (e.g. c:Program Filescontext), as that may confuse things. [Seems to work with an August 2006 stand-alone distribution.]
- After you have verified everything works in step #3, you can toss cdemo.bat away and use cstart.bat to start everything. Make a link to it somewhere so that you can start the system by a shortcut or through the Start menu. Do not move the batch script anywhere, it has to be run in the root directory of the distribution (e.g. c:Programscontext).
- Make sure you have something Acrobatish (any decent PDF viewer) installed, otherwise you won't see the results in step #4.
- A final note: to have it finally running you should build the formats first. To do so there is at least a way:
- Another way to do it could be to type: texexec --make --all directly in SciTe console.
How to use the stand-alone distr. if you have MikTeX/TeX Live installed
- Create a file
pragmatex.bat
(the name doesn't really matter) with this content: and make sure that this file is visible byPATH
. - You can safely continue using your old TeX distribution (MikTeX, TeX Live, ..). If you want to invoke the stand-alone distribution, just execute from the command-line and all the subsequent calls to
texexec
will use files from the stand-alone tree (you'll notice the difference in file names when running ConTeXt). - To avoid the need to open a new prompt each time you want to run ConTeXt, create another .bat file in your .tex file's folder with the following content:
If you place the pragmatex
file in your ConTeXt directory, this will allow you to call ConTeXt from anywhere on your computer with one click. Minecraft net redeem. The disadvantage is that it's linked to a specific .tex file.
Use the same .bat file to run ConTeXt with any .tex file
- You can use the .bat file above for any .tex file you have.
Just do the following modification:
and save it as ConTeXtthis.bat. Now, you can use it this way:
Where anyfile.tex is your main ConTeXt source file. This whole instruction works well whit TeXnicCenter
|
- Supported Bit Versions
- 32-bit, 64-bit
- Source Code URL
- https://github.com/WarmUpTill/SceneSwitcher
- Minimum OBS Studio Version
- 26.0.0
- Supported Platforms
- Windows, Mac OS X, Linux
- audio based scene switching (Audio tab)
- media based scene switching (Media tab)
- system time based scene switching (Time tab)
- sequence of automated scene switches (Scene Sequence tab)
- cursor position based scene switching (Region)
- the option to switch to a scene after detection of being idle (Idle tab)
- executable based scene switching (Executable tab)
- file content based scene swithcing (File)
- improvements for the window title based scene switching (full-screen / maximized detection, ignore windows)
- the ability select a different transition for each automated switch case (Transitions tab)
- automatically pause the scene switcher based on scene or window title
- hotkey to start and stop the scene switcher
- trigger actions on scene change
- and more ..
Select 'Go to download' for download and not 'Source Code URL'.
Installation Windows:
obs-plugins
' and 'data' folders in the respective OBS Studio installation directory.C:Program Files (x86)obs-studio
'.Installation macOS:
SceneSwitcher.pkg
file and either ..Contents/Plugins
' and the 'data' folder to 'Contents/Resources'.Library/Application Support/obs-studio/plugins/advanced-scene-switcher/bin/
.Library/Application Support/obs-studio/plugins/advanced-scene-switcher/
'.Installation Linux:
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/obs-plugins/
Contexts 3 2 0 – Fast Window Switcher Installer Windows 7
~/.config/obs-studio/plugins/advanced-scene-switcher/bin/64bit/
~/.config/obs-studio/plugins/advanced-scene-switcher/
/usr/share/obs/obs-plugins/advanced-scene-switcher/locale
Settings Configuration:
You can access the advanced scene switcher the same way you access the built-in scene switcher, by opening the Tools menu and selecting Advanced Scene Switcher.
When opening the plug-in you will land on the 'General' tab.
Here you can configure general settings like ..
- The status of the plug-in (active / inactive)
- The priority of the different scene switching methods
- What to do if no match was found
- Save and load settings
In the following it will be described how to add a scene switching entry on the Media tab as an example.
There are of course many additional ways you configure the plug-in but the steps all are pretty similar.
Each tab will also contain a short description of what it can be used for if nothing is configured.
First let's switch to the Media settings of the plug-in by selecting the corresponding tab (1).
Then click the highlighted plus symbol to add a new entry.
The new entry now has to be configured by selecting the media source which should be monitored, selecting the state that should trigger a scene change, optionally a time restriction and finally the scene which should be switched to and the transition that should be used.
If you have configured everything it should look something like this.
Note that incomplete entries - e.g. if no transition was selected - will not trigger scene changes.
You can of course add multiple entries for each scene switching methods, so let us add another one:
Contexts 3 2 0 – Fast Window Switcher Installer
Note that the order of the scene switching entries plays a role.
The list of entries will be checked from top to bottom, meaning that the highest entry in the list will have the highest priority.
Contexts 3 2 0 – Fast Window Switcher Installer Windows 10
You can of course change the order of existing entries by selecting the entry in the list you want to move and pressing the up and down arrows.
Once you have configured everything to your liking make sure to switch back to the General tab(1) and start the scene switcher, if it is not yet active.
To do so press the 'Start' button and check that the status says that the plug-in is currently active(2).
Now your configured entries will take effect and automated scene switching will start! :)
You can also set a hotkey to start or stop the scene switcher the settings of OBS.
Additional Information and Notes:
If you want to build the plug-in yourself the source is available here.
Please report any problems you experience using this plug-in here, on GitHub or send me a direct message.