Re: [NTG-context] Newbie Problem With ConTeXt/MacTeX-2008 Distribution

27 Sep 2008


      Well, I installed Context Minimals and used MKIV and it worked. Thanks  
for the help.

Stan
On Sep 27, 2008, at 11:42 AM, George N. White III wrote:
...
On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 12:51 PM, Stanley Hudson
 wrote:
...
Trying out ConTeXt on a Macbook with the MacTeX -2008 Distribution.
The following compiles on ConTeXt live at the Garden, but does not
work locally.
\usemodule[pre-05]
\starttext
\TitlePage{A Sample Presentation}
\Topics{Informative Talk}
\Topic{First item}
Some information goes here
\Topic{Second Item}
More information goes here
\stoptext
This is what I get:
TeXExec | processing document '/Users/tom/Desktop/stuff/razzle/
firstfile.tex'
TeXExec | no ctx file found
TeXExec | tex processing method: context
TeXExec | TeX run 1
TeXExec | writing option file firstfile.top
TeXExec | using randomseed 1382
TeXExec | tex engine: pdftex
TeXExec | tex format: cont-en
This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.1415926-1.40.9 (Web2C 7.5.7)
%&-line parsing enabled.
(/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf/web2c/natural.tcx)
entering extended mode
(/Users/tom/Desktop/stuff/razzle/firstfile.tex
ConTeXt  ver: 2008.05.21 15:21 MKII  fmt: 2008.9.27  int: english/
english
[...]
systems         : system commands are disabled
[...]
Topic           : - First item
system          : Topic not found/processed
[MP firstfile-mpgraph.3999]
! Missing number, treated as zero.
<to be read again>
                  \endcsname
\@@amvbox ... -\pagebackgroundvoffset +\endcsname
                                                 \c!topoffset \relax
\box \...
<argument> ...ght\c!left }\interactionmenu [right]
                                                 \getvalue {\??am
right\c!r...
\firstofoneargument #1->#1
\next2 #1,->\docommand {#1}
                          \doprocesscommaitem
\doprocesscommalist ...item \gobbleoneargument #1,
                                                 ]\relax \global
\advance \...
...
l.8 \Topic{Second Item}
?
Any suggestions on what is wrong?
I get the same error using TL2008 on linux, so it looks like a bug in
context.  All is not lost, however, as your file does work using MKiV
with the context minimal distro:
$ context t
[...]
MtxRun | run 2: luatex
--fmt="/Data/opt/tex/context/linuxtex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/ 
context/e94a94633d1c5da1888b5ba67f423e84/formats/cont-en"
--lua="/Data/opt/tex/context/linuxtex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/ 
context/e94a94633d1c5da1888b5ba67f423e84/formats/cont-en.lua"
"./t"
(t.tex
ConTeXt  ver: 2008.08.15 09:41 MKIV  fmt: 2008.9.27  int: english/ 
english
[...]
mkiv lua stats : runtime                   - 8.756 seconds, 3
processed pages, 3 shipped pages, 0.343 pages/second
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
So the solution lies somewhere between 2008.05 MkII and 2008.08 MkIV.
Simpler documents do work using 2008.05 MkII in TL2008, but if you are
starting out you may do better to focus on MkIV.
-- 
George N. White III 
Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia
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