On 9/18/2013 10:47 AM, Gerben Wierda wrote:
As my computer died I had to set up a clean one. I installed MacTeX 2013 and tried to compile a ConTeXt project, but this failed:
texexec --pdf --mode=editor --once .../products/prd_book.tex
resolvers | caches | path '/Users/gerben/Library/texlive/2013/texmf-var' created/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.0/usr/lib/ruby/2.0.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:45:in `require': /usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/scripts/context/ruby/base/switch.rb:501: invalid multibyte escape: /\xFF/ (SyntaxError) from /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.0/usr/lib/ruby/2.0.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:45:in `require' from /usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/scripts/context/ruby/texexec.rb:11:in `<main>'
It seems a problem in a ruby file in MacTeX 2013. Can someone help me get this working?
Maybe something utf in the latest ruby ... can you try to replace the \xFF with \xFFFC and see what happens? Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------