Bingo! Thanks, Neil. I was on vacation, with no internet access, so I didn't get to try this until today. Yes, ConTEXT works on Ubuntu through Wine.
Thanks again, Ralph On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 6:18 PM, Neil Puttock <n.putt...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2009/9/18 Ralph Palmer <palmer.r.vio...@gmail.com>: > > > ConTEXT, my favorite text editor for LilyPond and ABC on my WinXP > machine, > > has recently gone open source. Has anyone successfully ported (is that > the > > correct term? Compiled for?) ConTEXT to Linux? If so, would you be > willing > > to help me get ConTEXT going on my Ubuntu machine? My programming skills > are > > minimal. If we're successful, I'd be happy to share the process with > others. > > Your best bet is probably to install Wine and run it under emulation. > Though I'm not familiar with ConTEXT, I've just downloaded it and it > seems to work fine with Wine. > > If you don't have Wine installed, you can get it via Synaptic or > directly from the shell by typing the following: > > sudo apt-get install wine > > Then it's just a matter of downloading the ConTEXT .exe and > right-clicking on it to select `Open with "Wine Windows Program > Loader"'; this will install it just like a Windows program. > > Regards, > Neil > -- Ralph Palmer Montague City, MA USA palmer.r.vio...@gmail.com
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