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[cc'd to list, because it'll be a common problem.] Charles Doherty said this at Mon, 29 Nov 2004 15:01:59 +0000:
Dear Adam,
Thank you for implementing XeTeX in ConTeXt. I have followed your instructions following a fresh install from Gerben to ensure everything was up-to-date but I can't seem to generate cont-en.xfmt I give the console read-out below. I hope it is of some use:
TeXExec 5.2.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2004
TeX hash binary : mktexlsr comment : hashing may take a while ... mktexlsr: Updating /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/ls-R... mktexlsr: Updating /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.gwtex/ls-R... mktexlsr: Updating /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/ls-R... mktexlsr: Updating /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/ls-R... mktexlsr: Updating /var/tmp/texfonts/ls-R... mktexlsr: Done. xetex: unrecognized option `-translate-file=natural.tcx'
hi Charles, good point. XeTeX currently doesn't accept or ignore the -translate-file option that Hans has chosen as a default for normal ConTeXt operation. I haven't figured out how to run different "profiles" or configurations within my current installation, so I just edited the following line in /usr/local/ teTeX/share/texmf.local/context/config/texexec.ini [1] from: for tetex set TeXPassString to -progname=context --default-translate- file=cp8bit ...to... for tetex set TeXPassString to -progname=context ... I think that should be enough to set you on your way. I run ConTeXt with both pdfetex and XeTeX under this configuration, and it seems to work well enough (except for a minor warning). I'll add this advice to the wiki, but Hans, Gerben, can you offer advice on how to handle this configuration conflict longer term... we want ConTeXt to work well out of the box, *and* to make it easy for mac users. Yes, JK needs to update XeTeX to handle the -default-translate option better, but there are other reasons for changing texexec.ini as well... [1] or wherever your texexec is getting its configuration from. Look at the output of `texexec --verbose` for a line like: reading : /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/context/config/texexec.ini -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Adam T. Lindsay, Computing Dept. atl@comp.lancs.ac.uk Lancaster University, InfoLab21 +44(0)1524/510.514 Lancaster, LA1 4WA, UK Fax:+44(0)1524/510.492 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-