Thanks, Mojca.

With .bash_profile now reading . /Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/setuptex, I ran texexec --make --all successfully. But I still could not process a .tex file: the error message was

This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.10 (Web2C 2009)
 \write18 enabled.
 (/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-context/web2c/natural.tcx)

kpathsea: Running mktexfmt cont-en.fmt
mktexfmt: No such file or directory
I can't find the format file `cont-en.fmt'!
TeXExec | runtime: 0.21928

So I removed texmf-osx-intel from /ConTeXtMinimals/tex/. re-ran texexec --make --all. The error message is now

texexec: Command not found.

Alan

On Dec 2, 2009, at 03;13,46 , Mojca Miklavec wrote:

On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 17:13, Bowen Alan C. wrote:
Mocja—
I see that I have two texexecs in my Minimals now:
one in
ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-osx-intel/bin
the other in
ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-osx-64/bin
Which one is the right one?

The second one.

I should add that when my .bash_profile has
. /Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/setuptex
/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/
I cannot compile any file because of the mismatch between format and base
files.

This is because you need to regenerate the formats (texexec --make
--all). Please send the log if this fails to help.

If I change my .bash_profile to
. /Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/setuptex
/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-osx-64/bin
as suggested in

No, that's not been suggested. You may not use the second argument
that way. If you read carefully again you'll see that there are **two
different recipes**. You need to use just one of them.

When you want to use context, you need to initialize the tree by typing:

[first recipe]
 . /Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/setuptex
in your shell or add

[second recipe]
 "/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-osx-64/bin"
to PATH variable if you want to set it permanently.
This can usually be done in .bashrc, .bash_profile
(or whatever file is used to initialize your shell).

I get the error message
The argument "/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-osx-64/bin" is not a
valid TEXROOT path.
(There is no file
"/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-osx-64/bin/texmf/tex/plain/base/plain.tex")

Yes, that makes sense. Since
/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-osx-64/bin is NOT the root of
distribution. That's just the PATH to your binaries.

Just go with the first approach (the one that reports mismatching
formats at the moment), run
   texexec --make --all
and send the log if it fails to work.

Mojca
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