Re: [NTG-context] Odd /externalfigure behavior

I'm willing to give you an image, but it cannot be the images. I have edited the file and put systematically % before the /externalfigure lines then run context against the file. As I added the % the nil error shifted to the next /externalfigure. I stopped this after five times. I have confirmed, by the way, file/directory ownership with chown and privileges with chmod. They are set as they should be, so whatever is awry is not owner/privilege related. Another reason it cannot be the images is that I used context with the same document and the same images to successfully create a document. They were unchanged, to my knowledge, the next day when context started throwing the error. While it's conceivable that some agent might have modified the documents and/or my office Linux install overnight without my knowledge, that must be considered a very remote possibility. That said, I'm hard-pressed to figure out what can possibly have changed, overnight, such that context would suddenly begin throwing the errors. That is why I unlinked/relinked Dropbox. They could change something on their end. But that had no affect on the error. Nor did moving all the images that are in the document from multiple directories into one directory. I think Wolfgang may be correct that I should remove/purge my context installation. But I have to say that is not an encouraging course of action. Guy On 12/16/2012 08:17 AM, Hans Hagen wrote:

On 12/16/2012 10:22 AM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

...

Am 15.12.2012 um 23:44 schrieb Guy Stalnaker :

...

In case anyone was following this thread -- nothing I have been able to do has eliminated the context error.

I have:

1. Unlinked/relinked Dropbox 2. Moved image files to new directories. 3. Renamed image files. 4. Used a test snippet of regular document headers with only the \starttext \externalfigure \stoptext 5. Used a test snippet of only the \starttext \externalfigure \stoptext

The compile 'nil' response error persists. After four days of continued errors I have had to seek an alternate method for creating the print document.

My thanks to those of you on this list who responded to my questions.

The last thing you can try is to remove your context installation and to reinstall it.

Can you also provide one of your figures which causes problems.

indeed. it would be interesting to know what picture triggers a nil (i.e. a non picture) someplace in the pipeline

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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________________

If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki!

maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________

-- "There is only love, and then oblivion. Love is all we have to set against hatred." (paraphrased) Ian McEwan Guy Stalnaker, I^2@DOIT, 1210 West Dayton Street, Room 3209 CSS, Madison WI 53719-1220, jstalnak@wisc.edu, work 608.263.8035, cell 608.235.4718, fax 608.265.6681,