Mojca, I saw your note on blog.miktex.org: If you still want to run ConTeXt on MikTeX while it has been removed, you may create a file texmfstart.bat in C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7 \miktex\bin with the content: @echo off ruby "C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\scripts\context\ruby\texmfstart.rb" "%*" and extract www.pragma-ade.com/context/current/cont-tmf.zip into C: \Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7. Then, update filename database and generate formats, and everything should work again. Mojca I followed this advice, installed texmfstart.bat, unzipped cont- tmf.zip properly, updated the filename database, then got stuck. At the dos prompt: $ texmfstart --help Worked just fine. However, $ texmfstart texexec --help Did not work. What am I missing? If I recall I'll need to do: $ texmfstart texexec --make --all Or some such thing. David Arnold College of the Redwoods Mathematics Department Eureka, CA 95501 (707) 476-4222 http://online.redwoods.edu/instruct/darnold/
On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 1:57 AM, David Arnold wrote:
Mojca, I saw your note on blog.miktex.org: If you still want to run ConTeXt on MikTeX while it has been removed, you may create a file texmfstart.bat in C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\miktex\bin with the content: @echo off ruby "C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\scripts\context\ruby\texmfstart.rb" "%*" and extract www.pragma-ade.com/context/current/cont-tmf.zip into C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7. Then, update filename database and generate formats, and everything should work again. Mojca I followed this advice, installed texmfstart.bat, unzipped cont-tmf.zip properly, updated the filename database, then got stuck. At the dos prompt: $ texmfstart --help Worked just fine. However, $ texmfstart texexec --help Did not work. What am I missing? If I recall I'll need to do: $ texmfstart texexec --make --all Or some such thing.
Can you please try what happens if you install MikTeX in some folder with no spaces in base path? Mojca
Mojca, I a hopeless mac user at home now. I used to be pretty good with miktex, even working with hans to test the settings that now exist in the texexec.rme file, back in the days when we made that an .ini file in Miktex. But no longer. It's our school machines I am trying to configure, PC's with Windows XP. I got to a point today where I selected the formats tab in the Miktex Settings gui, and tried to build cont-en there. It objected that it could not find cont-en.ini in tex/something or other so I tried moving cont-en.ini from the context distribution to tex/ something or other and updating the filename database to no avail. I'll give your idea of no spaces a try tomorrow. Meanwhile if you can think of anything less drastic, as I have to do this on 20 different machines, .... Thanks so much. David. On Sep 30, 2008, at 5:15 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 1:57 AM, David Arnold wrote:
Mojca, I saw your note on blog.miktex.org: If you still want to run ConTeXt on MikTeX while it has been removed, you may create a file texmfstart.bat in C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7 \miktex\bin with the content: @echo off ruby "C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\scripts\context\ruby \texmfstart.rb" "%*" and extract www.pragma-ade.com/context/current/cont-tmf.zip into C: \Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7. Then, update filename database and generate formats, and everything should work again. Mojca I followed this advice, installed texmfstart.bat, unzipped cont- tmf.zip properly, updated the filename database, then got stuck. At the dos prompt: $ texmfstart --help Worked just fine. However, $ texmfstart texexec --help Did not work. What am I missing? If I recall I'll need to do: $ texmfstart texexec --make --all Or some such thing.
Can you please try what happens if you install MikTeX in some folder with no spaces in base path?
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Am Tue, 30 Sep 2008 22:38:38 -0700 schrieb David Arnold:
I saw your note on blog.miktex.org: If you still want to run ConTeXt on MikTeX while it has been removed, you may create a file texmfstart.bat in C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7 \miktex\bin with the content: @echo off ruby "C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\scripts\context\ruby \texmfstart.rb" "%*" and extract www.pragma-ade.com/context/current/cont-tmf.zip into C: \Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7. Then, update filename database and generate formats, and everything should work again.
I followed this advice, installed texmfstart.bat, unzipped cont- tmf.zip properly, updated the filename database, then got stuck. At the dos prompt:
$ texmfstart --help Worked just fine. However, $ texmfstart texexec --help Did not work.
Can you please try what happens if you install MikTeX in some folder with no spaces in base path?
I'll give your idea of no spaces a try tomorrow. Meanwhile if you can think of anything less drastic, as I have to do this on 20 different machines, ....
You could try to unzip cont-tmf.zip in a separate root without spaces. E.g. C:\contextfiles\... Then add C:\contextfiles as a new root. -- Ulrike Fischer
On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 1:57 AM, David Arnold wrote:
Mojca, I saw your note on blog.miktex.org: If you still want to run ConTeXt on MikTeX while it has been removed, you may create a file texmfstart.bat in C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\miktex\bin with the content: @echo off ruby "C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\scripts\context\ruby\texmfstart.rb" "%*"
However,
$ texmfstart texexec --help
Did not work
Does removing the quotation marks around argument help? @echo off ruby "C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\scripts\context\ruby\texmfstart.rb" %* Mojca
I'll check when I get to school. D. On Oct 1, 2008, at 10:45 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 1:57 AM, David Arnold wrote:
Mojca, I saw your note on blog.miktex.org: If you still want to run ConTeXt on MikTeX while it has been removed, you may create a file texmfstart.bat in C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7 \miktex\bin with the content: @echo off ruby "C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\scripts\context\ruby \texmfstart.rb" "%*"
However,
$ texmfstart texexec --help
Did not work
Does removing the quotation marks around argument help?
@echo off ruby "C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\scripts\context\ruby \texmfstart.rb" %*
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I got ConTeXt working on this machine, but mptopdf indeed seems to be broken.
c:\Documents and Settings\Uporabnik\My Documents\test>mp example
(example.mpCreating example.mpx...
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.9 (MiKTeX 2.7)
entering extended mode
(C:/DOCUME~1/UPORAB~1/LOCALS~1/Temp/mik55214/mpx314.tex
LaTeX2e <2005/12/01>
Babel
Mojca, Thanks. On: http://blog.miktex.org/post/2008/05/ConTeXt-support.aspx At the bottom of the list, these seem to be the errors that another user reports. Please keep me informed. I need to have mptopdf working for my students in the Miktex tree. D. On Oct 1, 2008, at 11:58 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
I got ConTeXt working on this machine, but mptopdf indeed seems to be broken.
c:\Documents and Settings\Uporabnik\My Documents\test>mp example (example.mpCreating example.mpx... This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.9 (MiKTeX 2.7) entering extended mode (C:/DOCUME~1/UPORAB~1/LOCALS~1/Temp/mik55214/mpx314.tex LaTeX2e <2005/12/01> Babel
and hyphenation patterns for english, dumylang, nohyphenation, sl ovenian, loaded. ("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\latex\base\article.cls" Document Class: article 2005/09/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX document class ("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\latex\base\size10.clo")) ("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\latex\base\inputenc.sty" ("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\latex\base\latin9.def")) ("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\latex\base\fontenc.sty" ("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\latex\base\t1enc.def")) ("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\latex\amsmath\amsmath.sty" For additional information on amsmath, use the `?' option. ("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\latex\amsmath\amstext.sty" ("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\latex\amsmath\amsgen.sty")) ("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\latex\amsmath\amsbsy.sty") ("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\latex\amsmath\amsopn.sty")) ("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\latex\amsfonts\amssymb.sty" ("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\latex\amsfonts\amsfonts.sty")) No file mpx314.aux. ("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\latex\amsfonts\umsa.fd") ("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\latex\amsfonts\umsb.fd") [1] [1] [1] [1] [1] [1] [1] [1] [1] [1] [1] [1] [1] [1] [1] [1] [1] [1] [1] (mpx314.aux) ) Output written on mpx314.dvi (19 pages, 2344 bytes). Transcript written on mpx314.log. Done. [1] ) 1 output file written: example.1 Transcript written on example.log. c:\Documents and Settings\Uporabnik\My Documents\test>mptopdf example.1 This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.9 (MiKTeX 2.7) entering extended mode (example.1 [MP to PDF] ! I can't find file `0'. <to be read again> \relax \processMPfile ...vbox {\convertMPtoPDF {#1}{1}{1} }\ifdim \wd 0<1in \message... l.19 0 0 0 setrgbcolor 0 0.5 dtransform truncate idtransform setlinewidth pop Please type another input file name: ! Emergency stop. <to be read again> \relax \processMPfile ...vbox {\convertMPtoPDF {#1}{1}{1} }\ifdim \wd 0<1in \message... l.19 0 0 0 setrgbcolor 0 0.5 dtransform truncate idtransform setlinewidth pop ! ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced! Transcript written on example.log.
c:\Documents and Settings\Uporabnik\My Documents\test>mptopdf example.mp This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.9 (MiKTeX 2.7) entering extended mode (example.mp [MP to PDF] ! I can't find file `verbatimtex'. <to be read again> \relax \processMPfile ...vbox {\convertMPtoPDF {#1}{1}{1} }\ifdim \wd 0<1in \message... l.2 verbatimtex
Please type another input file name: ^\ ! Emergency stop. <to be read again> \relax \processMPfile ...vbox {\convertMPtoPDF {#1}{1}{1} }\ifdim \wd 0<1in \message... l.2 verbatimtex
! ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced! Transcript written on example.log.
(I did not yet move files around, but will try.)
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On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 9:06 PM, David Arnold wrote:
Mojca,
Thanks.
On:
http://blog.miktex.org/post/2008/05/ConTeXt-support.aspx
At the bottom of the list, these seem to be the errors that another user reports.
Please keep me informed. I need to have mptopdf working for my students in the Miktex tree.
I'm just as lost as others are. I have no idea what's wrong. I suspect it's about spaces in filenames, but need to try it out. Mojca
On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 5:57 PM, Mojca Miklavec
On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 9:06 PM, David Arnold wrote:
Mojca,
Thanks.
On:
http://blog.miktex.org/post/2008/05/ConTeXt-support.aspx
At the bottom of the list, these seem to be the errors that another user reports.
Please keep me informed. I need to have mptopdf working for my students in the Miktex tree.
I'm just as lost as others are. I have no idea what's wrong. I suspect it's about spaces in filenames, but need to try it out.
Since mptopdf works for me, it isn't about spaces. It looks like the
mptopdf program could be better replaced by another simple script:
Try:
C:\Testing>pdftex "&mptopdf" \processMPfile{example.1}
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.9 (MiKTeX 2.7)
[MP to PDF] (example.1{C:/windows/profiles/gwhite/Local Settings/Application Da
ta/MiKTeX/2.7/pdftex/config/pdftex.map}) [1]
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