Re: [NTG-context] Greek module

Citando Mojca Miklavec :

On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 10:36 PM, wrote:

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Two explanations are possible (there was no attachment to your mail)

Indeed no. I gave up when I received the e-mail saying my message was waiting for approval. I apologise.

Waiting for approval because of too big attachment?

Suppose no. It was a log file.

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- your ConTeXt is too old. OpenSuSE has TeXLive 2007, I guess, so you should update ConTeXt.

Right. My Context is from 2007. The point is that I am so clumsy about installing something on OpenSuse/Linux (I have a Windows machine using MikTex, suppose that doesn't help) that I do it always on line with a repo.

MikTeX does help. Quite some users report that the latest version of ConTeXt is currently broken though (and yesterday updating MikTeX was broken). I had no chance to check, but in theory it should work (you need to use MikTeX 2.7). I guess that even the module itself is included in MikTeX.

I have MikTex 2.7. I uninstalled and installed again because it couldn't build the format for ConTeXt. Now it builds but texexec --version does not produce any output. MikTex help list says one should have perl and ruby - which I have (I checked the environment variables and ruby is not there; this can be the cause but I don't know how to add it). Anyway I will stick to Linux first.

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Download and install rpm packages (or other files) rarely turns out to be good. But anyway I have tried to install according to the recipe I found on wiki (http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Linux_User_Installation). Didn't manage. If you have no other suggestion I can try again and post the result.

Those instructions are a bit out-of-date (the problem is that the zips on PRAGMA are rather old). I will fix the instructions.

Can you try this? mkdir context && cd context rsync -ptv rsync://contextgarden.net/minimals/setup/first-setup.sh . ./first-setup.sh and then put something like . ~/context/setuptex ~/context to .bash_profile or .bashrc or only execute that command once you need it (it will shield your global tex installation, but you can remove it at any time).

This will only "install" a local copy.

If you need to fix the global installation, one option is to update "only" ConTeXt files, for example with rsync -av rsync://contextgarden.net/minimals/current/context/current/ location-of-your-distro/texmf-something (test to a temporary location first)

But: - you also need to update LM fonts - I would also suggest to update the xetex and xdvipdfmx binary in that case. XeTeX before winter works extremely slowly with latest ConTeXt

Thanks for your help. I will try one of those solutions. A final remark. I didn't say this (bellow quoted), it is written in one of the manuals (mp-cb-en.pdf), page 4:

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"CONTEXT expects a plain ASCII input file. Of course you can use any texteditor or wordprocessor you want, but you should not forget that CONTEXT can only read ASCII input. Most texteditors or wordprocessors can export your file as plain ASCII."

That's not true. Maybe it was in the past, but you can use UTF-8 without a problem now.

Mojca

Armando

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