ConTeXt terminal: looking for testers

[Mojca M. <moj...@gm...>]

Hello,

it's not completely finished or polished yet (t-gnuplot.tex has still
much space for improvement, but is pretty much independent of
context.trm), but I would nevertheless like to ask for help for
testing the ConTeXt terminal, which works in a similar was as
latex/(e)ps(la)tex (pseudo-terminal), but is meant for ConTeXt users
and the module can also be used for compiling the graphs on-the-fly in
the middle of the document.

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=3Ddetail&aid=3D1503836&group_=
id=3D2055&atid=3D302055

Here's one of the recent documents created with that terminal (I
didn't know for it until the author posted the link to the mailing
list):
    http://www.nibua-r.org/ConTeXt/PhD/
(I don't understand French and I don't want to say that it's meant as
the show-off of what the context terminal can do, because it's not,
but only as an example that other people are using it as well)


In order to try it one needs ruby, perl (prerequisites for running
ConTeXt), the latest version of ConTeXt (I use 2006.11.06; the one
that comes with tetex is useless if not updated) and two files from
http://modules.contextgarden.net/gnuplot (either the whole structure
can be copied to the TEXMF tree or the two files (t-gnuplot.tex and
mp-gnuplot.mp) have to be placed in the same folder where one is
compiling a .tex document).

I would suggest to use the standalone version of ConTeXt from
http://www.pragma-ade.com/download-1.htm (on other distributions
texmfstart.rb as an executable has to be enabled first and ConTeXt has
to be updated before proceeding) + running "texmfstart ctxtools
--update".

Timoth=E9e has posted some comments last time and I tried to apply them
wherever possible (apart from reimplementing a function for unit
conversion). Thanks again for those.

I have some TODOs and XXXs left in the code, but those are more a note
for me that something can be improved rather than a fundamentally
missing functionality.

(load 'all.dem' most won't work because of special characters: %, $, _
I'm planning to implement a "literal" mode for writing to output, but
I would like a proper solution, not continuously patching partially
working ones)

Any volunteers? Any comments?

Thanks a lot,
    Mojca