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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}
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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
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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
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