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version dates confuse me after upgrade
by Sanjoy Mahajan 08 Apr '06

08 Apr '06

I just upgraded following the instructions on the wiki, and wanted to check that it went well and that the newer ones were being found -- always a nightmare subject in *TeX* with paths configurable by a combination of environment variables, config files, and config files chosen by other env variables. So: $ texexec --version TeXExec 5.4.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005 texexec : TeXExec 5.4.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005 texutil : TeXUtil 9.0.1 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1992-2006 tex : pdfeTeX, 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4) context : ver: 2006.03.25 13:21 cont-en : ver: 2005.01.31 fmt: 2006.3.28 mes: english Here is the version line in the output of 'texexec somerandomfile.tex': ConTeXt ver: 2006.03.25 13:21 fmt: 2006.4.6 int: english mes: english The context version date match what texexec --version produces (though texexec doesn't give the fmt date). But what does the early cont-en version date (2005.01.31) mean? -Sanjoy `A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves.' - Bertrand de Jouvenal

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Installation problem
by Pavel Stupin 08 Apr '06

08 Apr '06

Dear ConTeXt developers and users, Please excuse me for bothering you with such a trivial question, but I still would really appreciate your help. I've downloaded the current ConTeXt version and generated the format files. Now, when I try to invoke texexec to process a test file ("\starttext Test \stoptext") the script complains the following way: *********************** This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-1.10a-2.1 (Web2C 7.4.4) (format=cont-en 2006.4.8) 8 APR 2006 10:50 entering extended mode \write18 enabled. (/usr/share/texmf/web2c/natural.tcx) **&cont-en test.tex (./test.tex{/usr/share/texmf/pdftex/config/pdftex.cfg} ConTeXt ver: 2006.03.25 13:21 fmt: 2006.4.8 int: english mes: english systems : pdfTeX version 110 -> please update systems : eTeX version 201 -> too old (bugs) language : language en is active ... bodyfont : 12pt rm is loaded ! Font \*12ptrmtf*=ec-lmr12 not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not found. <to be read again> ... l.1 \starttext ? ! Font \*7ptrmtf*=ec-lmr7 not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not found. <to be read again> ... ************************************ Could you please advise me what I'm supposed to do to have the metric files found and whether I must update my obsolete pdfTeX and eTeX to handle the problem. Also, I'm interested if Russian language is supported by ConTeXt "out of the box" or not. Thank you in advance! Kind regards, Pavel Stupin.

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Different pagebreaks for component and whole document
by Aditya Mahajan 08 Apr '06

08 Apr '06

Hi, I have run into a strange kind of a problem and I am not sure on how to debug to figure out what is going wrong. Maybe someone with more experience with context can help me here. I have the following document structure project: main.tex environment:env_main.tex products: assignments.tex handouts.tex project: assignments.tex components:assignment-01.tex assignment-02.tex and so on project: handouts.tex component: handout-01.tex handout-02.tex and so on. Each component starts with \title which does a page break. There are no local setups in any component. I expected that each component will be typed out in the same manner, whether I compile the a component, a product or the entire project. It turns out this is not the case. The first page of handout-01.tex is different when I compile the project (main.tex). The pagebreak is set at a different place and I get ugly page break at the end. If I compile handouts.tex or handout-01.tex, the page breaks are same and there is no ugly pagebreak at the end. Is it possible that such a behaviour is due to the length of the document. main.pdf is 105 pages long, while handout-01.pdf is 4 pages and handouts.pdf is 14 pages. It seems that due to the large length of main.pdf, context is not trying hard enough to get good page break. Even a manual \page[disable] does not prevent the ugly pagebreak for main.tex. I am totally confused by this behaviour. Any explainations or suggestions? -- Aditya Mahajan, EECS Systems, University of Michigan http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~adityam || Ph: 7342624008

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latest beta
by Thomas A. Schmitz 08 Apr '06

08 Apr '06

Hans and all, there are two unpleasant things in the lates releases which may be bugs: 1. newtexexec --module --pdf does not work, it just doesn't process the modules (works with "old" texexec) 2. not sure if this is a misconfiguration on my system, but when I try to use texmfstart, I get this error: /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/scripts/context/ruby/base/ kpseremote.rb:8:in `require': No such file to load -- base/kpse/drb (LoadError) from /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/scripts/context/ruby/ base/kpseremote.rb:8 from /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/scripts/context/ruby/ texmfstart.rb:39:in `require' from /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/scripts/context/ruby/ texmfstart.rb:39 All best Thomas

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How to get the chapter title page shown?
by R S Ananda Murthy 08 Apr '06

08 Apr '06

Hello, I am new to ConTeXt. I need to get the chapter title layout as shown in the attached pdf file. How to get this? Thanks for your help. Anand

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More physml/units
by Johannes Graumann 07 Apr '06

07 Apr '06

<phys><apply><unit/><cn>30</cn><csymbol><Minute/></csymbol></apply></phys> Does not work. Joh

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textmu non-italic?
by Johannes Graumann 07 Apr '06

07 Apr '06

Hello, \defineXMLentity [00B5] {\textmu} seems to deliver an italic mu when using the standard font. Is there a way to get a 'straight' one? Thanks, Joh

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Error while loading chemml
by Johannes Graumann 07 Apr '06

07 Apr '06

Hello, Loading the chemml module I get the following error: system : macros of module chemml loaded (/usr/share/texmf-tetex/tex/context/base/x-chemml.tex xml : loading module cml (/usr/share/texmf-tetex/tex/context/base/xtag-cml.tex ! Undefined control sequence. <argument> \c!variant =\v!a \xprocesscommaitem #1,#2->\if ,#1 ,\@EA \xprocesscommaitem \else \if ]#1\@EAE... \xdogetparameters #1]->\xprocesscommaitem #1,] ,\@relax@ l.23 \setupCMLappearance [ion] [\c!variant=\v!a] I assume this will go away once I switch to the most recent ConTeXt? Thanks, Joh

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XML and subscript
by Johannes Graumann 07 Apr '06

07 Apr '06

Hello, Aside from the revelation that I will have to leave my debian tetex and go with the newest ConTeXt install for the (relatively) heavy lifting I'm doing here, I will now post my accumulated end-of-day questions one by one ;0) Here's the first one: Why does this not work and what makes it work: \defineXMLgrouped [sub] \low Thanks, Joh

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Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt Errors
by Browder, Tom 07 Apr '06

07 Apr '06

> -----Original Message----- > From: ntg-context-bounces(a)ntg.nl > [mailto:ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl] On Behalf Of Renaud AUBIN > Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2006 1:38 PM > To: mailing list for ConTeXt users > Subject: Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt Errors ... > I don't know fedora well, but it seems to have tetex already > installed (with an old release of ConTeXt) Try texexec --make > --all en and see if texexec --version returns something like this: > > TeXExec 5.4.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005 > > texexec : TeXExec 5.4.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE > 1997-2005 > texutil : TeXUtil 9.0.1 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE > 1992-2006 > tex : pdfeTeX, 3.141592-1.30.6-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.5) > context : ver: 2006.03.25 13:21 > cont-en : ver: 2006.03.25 13:21 fmt: 2006.4.4 Thanks, Renaud. I tried it, and the version output seems to be correct, but I still get the same error. I tried on my unmodified FC 5 installation at home and everything works fine. I'll be upgrading at work to FC 5 shortly and I hope to recover the working installation. -Tom

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