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texexec not finding cont-en
by Gary 17 Mar '03

17 Mar '03

I know this has been asked before, but I'm not getting it. I'm installing ConTeXt on Linux (Mandrake 9.0) with teTeX. I've installed the default teTeX distribution that comes with Mandrake. I've installed the latest ConTeXt beta I've edited texexec.ini, commenting out the reference to l:/... I've edited ... what was it ... fmtedit?? darn, can't remember, but I uncommented two lines that refer to cont-en and cont-nl I've run texhash texexec --make en nl texhash I've added to PATH: /usr/share/texmf /usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base /usr/share/texmf/tex/context/config I've made cont-en.tex and cont-en.ini executable so far, so good. But texexec --pdf filename.tex returns with sh: line 1: cont-en: command not found so cont-en is either not on the path or not executable, right? Please be explicit: are we talking about cont-en.tex, cont-en.ini, or cont-en.tws? Where is the usual place to put it? When adding to path, is the shell environment PATH variable what's meant? or is there some way within ConTeXt to set a path? What else could be wrong? Gary

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Bug in latest beta
by Giuseppe Bilotta 17 Mar '03

17 Mar '03

Hello, just got 2003.03.17 and found a small bug: the "auto" keyword is put among constants, while it should go among variables ... -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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Crash in landscape mode [MikTeX]
by Peter Rolf 17 Mar '03

17 Mar '03

If you use MikTeX and the 1.10b version of pdfetex, please try this out. If not, you are free to skip or read on :) I don't know why, but this simple piece of ConTeXt-code crashes with the version 1.10b of pdfetex. I use the lastest MikTeX version and the latest ConTeXt beta (13.03). The source worked fine with older versions of pdfetex and ConTeXt releases. All it does is placing two external A4-PDF's on a single landscaped A4 page. As an unregistered (private) user of MikTeX it seems my mail to their support got lost... I included all necessary files and the log-file. Peter

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Concrete and Euler
by Emil Hedevang Lohse 17 Mar '03

17 Mar '03

Hello, Is there an easy way to make ConTeXt use the Concrete Computer Modern font for normal text and the AMS Euler font for math -- like in Knuth's book "Concrete Mathematics"? -- Emil Hedevang Lohse <http://home.imf.au.dk/emil/> Alle spørgsmål er lige dumme. Og spørgsmålet "Kan ænder flyve?" er ikke dumt.

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(no subject)
by Coydell Rivers 17 Mar '03

17 Mar '03

Someone please give me a heads up....on the below \definieerpapierformaat [CONTEXT] [hoogte=27cm, breedte=36cm] \stelpapierformaatin [CONTEXT] [CONTEXT] This gives a document size of ( 14.17 x 6.3 in ) The 6.3in is the problem, it is not a full page If you are able to get a full page, please send me the test code... Thanks

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new version, new manuals, new files
by Hans Hagen 17 Mar '03

17 Mar '03

Hi, I uploaded a new version (stable and beta are now the same). This version inclused a few patches/extensions discussed recently. There is quite some new support for side floats, column sets have become rather stable (a manual will follow soon). Although a lot of functionality is still 'my little secret' to be revealed when users request it, you can ready find some info in www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals.details.pdf so, this manual has now moved from temp. It has currently some 80+ pages, and will probably tripple in size over time. This manual provides you some info about how to apply the relatively new layer and related things. The idea is that this kind of detailed trickery and/or thinsg not related to structuring will be discussed in details.pdf, while the structuring ends up in the ref manual (i'll pick up that thread soon). I also updated www.pragma-ade.com/show-fil.pdf (made nicer, watch the new image archive), www.pragma-ade.com/show-man.pdf (more manuals, not all yet on the site but i need the file here and it gives you an idea of what is coming), www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf Next in my list of manuals is finishing the correspondence manual (letters and envelops and alike), the pstopdf manual, and a few more. Happy reading and contexing, Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma(a)wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------

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ConTeXt beta installation issue
by Bruce D'Arcus 17 Mar '03

17 Mar '03

I've been using Simon's installer script successfully of late to install betas, but just ran into the following error (see below). Any ideas or suggestions? The command I used was: sudo perl install_context.pl --textree /Users/darcusb/Library/texmf /Applications/Installers/ConTeXt/cont-tmf.zip I do note that the pdfetex.pool it says it can't open is in this directory: /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/web2c/ Bruce ======================== Making formats for languages en nl TeXExec 3.2 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2003 running `pdfetex -ini -jobname=cont-en -progname=context *cont-en.ini' ... ! I can't read pdfetex.pool; bad path? Error: `pdfetex -ini -jobname=cont-en -progname=context *cont-en.ini' failed ######################################################################## ####### fmtutil: Error! Not all formats have been built successfully. Visit the log files in directory /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/web2c for details. ######################################################################## ####### This is a summary of all `failed' messages and warnings: `pdfetex -ini -jobname=cont-en -progname=context *cont-en.ini' failed ! I can't read pdfetex.pool; bad path? running `pdfetex -ini -jobname=cont-nl -progname=context *cont-nl.ini' ... ! I can't read pdfetex.pool; bad path? Error: `pdfetex -ini -jobname=cont-nl -progname=context *cont-nl.ini' failed ######################################################################## ####### fmtutil: Error! Not all formats have been built successfully. Visit the log files in directory /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/web2c for details. ######################################################################## ####### This is a summary of all `failed' messages and warnings: `pdfetex -ini -jobname=cont-nl -progname=context *cont-nl.ini' failed ! I can't read pdfetex.pool; bad path? TeX binary : pdfetex format(s) : en nl total run time : 8 seconds Failure executing texexec --make en nl

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fake columns -- ignore the last message
by Matthew Huggett 16 Mar '03

16 Mar '03

Sorry, The fake columns example works fine now. It appears I hadn't copied the example as exactly as I thought I had. Matt

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fake columns
by Matthew Huggett 16 Mar '03

16 Mar '03

Hi: I'm playing with fake columns as described on page 9 of details.pdf . I've copied the example exactly, but the text doesn't show up. \showgrid lets me see the columns, but the text that I want set in the columns is not there. Any ideas? Thanks Matt

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Font and index trouble (was Re: mathpple-a-like for ConTeXt?)
by Magnus Lie Hetland 15 Mar '03

15 Mar '03

Hans Hagen <pragma(a)wxs.nl>: > > At 11:56 PM 2/20/2003 +0100, Magnus Lie Hetland wrote: > > >I guess I'm just too green with ConTeXt, but I can't get this to > >work... Must i call \usetypescriptfile[somethingorother] first? > >(Actually, I get "undefined control sequence"...) > > What version do you run? Well, texexec --version returns 1.9. I'm using the version that comes with Gentoo Linux. I may well be missing something basic here -- I simply slapped your \usetypescript commands at the beginning of my ConTeXt file (before \starttext), and I get the following error messages: ! Undefined control sequence. <recently read> \usetypescript l.1 \usetypescript [berry][ec] ! Undefined control sequence. l.2 \usetypescript [palatino][ec] bodyfont : unknown variant palatino The commands were: \usetypescript[berry][ec] \usetypescript[palatino][ec] \setupbodyfont[palatino] Another thing that surprised me (not font-related) is that the \index command gobbles up the following space, even when I use braces; i.e. Foobar, babar\index{indexentry} krangas is typeset as Foobar, babarkrangas Is this normal behaviour? Must I manually insert a space there? > (let's move this discussion to the context list since it's not > related to pdftex) OK. > Hans -- Magnus Lie Hetland "Nothing shocks me. I'm a scientist." http://hetland.org -- Indiana Jones

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