Re: [NTG-context] Problems recompiling LaTeX2ConTeXt.tex

On Wed, 5 Mar 2003 10:16:40 -0800 (PST) "James J. Ramsey" wrote:

--- Jens-Uwe Morawski wrote:

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On Tue, 4 Mar 2003 08:45:24 -0800 (PST) "James J. Ramsey" wrote:

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I think I may have smoked out some problems with my ConTeXt installation in the process. I'm running Red Hat 8.0, with teTeX-1.0.7.

i would prefer an update at least to TEXLive7 and the current ConTeXt

Easier said than done on most Linux distros. teTeX is "standard equipment" on many of them, and often a dependency.

- install TeXLive in /opt/TeXlive/; don't let the installer create symbolic links for the binaries and don't install the ConTeXT from TEXLive - install ConTeXT in /opt/ConTeXT/texmf/ (don't forget to build a ls-R database there) - create a directory /opt/ConTeXt/bin, go there and run for PL in `ls ../texmf/context/perltk/*.pl`; do ln -s $PL `basename $PL .pl`; done - go to /opt/ConTeXt/texmf/context/perltk/ and check whether the *.pl files have mode 755 (rwxr-xr-x); if not run chmod 755 *.pl - find texmf.cnf in /opt/TeXLive (usually at /opt/TeXLive/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf) make a copy (texmf.cnf.ori) and edit the texmf.cnf: (a) add: TEXMFCONTEXT=/opt/ConTeXt/texmf (b) change TEXMF={$HOMETEXMF,!!$VARTEXMF,$TEXMFLOCAL,!!$TEXMFMAIN} to TEXMF={$HOMETEXMF,$TEXMFCONTEXT,!!$VARTEXMF,$TEXMFLOCAL,!!$TEXMFMAIN} - create a file /etc/profile.d/texlive.sh with following content PATH=/opt/ConTeXt/bin:/opt/TeXLive/bin/i386-linux:$PATH TEXMFCNF="/opt/TeXLive/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf" export TEXMFCNF - re-login or refresh your profile (source /etc/profile in bash or bash --login), so that profile changes take effect. done. No need to uninstall the distro's teTeX. It will simply not used anymore.

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What is going on?

find the file cont-sys.tex and uncomment the lines \setupencoding [\s!default=ec] \usetypescript [berry] [\defaultencoding]

That didn't work. I get this complaint:

! Undefined control sequence. <argument> \s !default=ec

Hmm, it's working here. Maybe Hans knows... You can try \setupencoding[default=ec], but i believe the \s! has a meaning there so NO WARRANTY :) But easier, change \usetypescript [berry] [\defaultencoding] to \usetypescript [berry] [ec]

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if this still does not work since font utmr8r etc. is not found

Yeah, I do not have that font. Oddly enough, I do have the files utmr8a.pfb and utmr8a.afm, but no utmr8r.

utmr8r is not a PostScript Type1 font, it's a TeX font. So, look for utmr8r.tfm (raw TeX font) or for utmr8t.tfm (T1 aka ec encoded TeX font).

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then you should install an up-to-date TeX distribution

As I said, easier said than done.

see above Jens