Re: [NTG-context] TeX Live 2003 miseries.
On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, John Culleton wrote:
I installed the latest version of TeXLive 2003 (the so-called demo version) and did the fmtutil and texhash bit. When I ran a job for a customer, texexec hung up at the point where a graphic was being loaded. So I went back to last year's texlive in a terrible hurry. That worked fine.
What platform? I tried to install various rc's on Win98 and ran into numerous problems: 1. the perl scripts were confused by the embedded spaces in the default "c:\Program Files\.." install path. In general, ConTeXt does not play well for paths that have embedded spaces. 2. the perl scripts search the PATH directories and supply a the full pathname of programs (e.g., /texLive/bin/Win32/kpsewhich.exe) to perl's backtick. This failed when running texexec.exe in a command.com window, Replaceing the "/" with "\" helps, but there were too many places to fix in the time available, and meanwhile the disk on the system I was borrowing died (due, I am quite sure, to overextertion caused by the direct searching of the texmf trees for texexec.ini when kpsewhich failed to run). On Mandrake linux 9.0 and SGI Irix 6.5 TeXLive 2003 (full install) works fine (using the current cont-tmf.zip which is a few days newer than the version in TeXLive 2003). The perl scripts have not changed.
Earlier, when TeXLive 2003 was still in beta they left out texexec altogether.
On unix they just forgot to make some symlinks, the perl scripts were there. On Win32, I used Active State perl.exe to run the scripts.
Has anyone else tried Context using graphics on TeXLive 2003? I hate to report a bug to Tug if my experience is unique. OTOH if the iso image is defective in some way I do need to let someone know pronto.
I'm not sure about the demo image. If you are using Win32, does
texexec.exe find texexec.ini using kpsewhich?
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George N. White III
On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, John Culleton wrote:
I installed the latest version of TeXLive 2003 (the so-called demo version) and did the fmtutil and texhash bit. When I ran a job for a customer, texexec hung up at the point where a graphic was being loaded. So I went back to last year's texlive in a terrible hurry. That worked fine.
What platform? Slackware 9.1 I reinstalled 2002 TeXlive to get my customer's job out the door. That worked. Then I downloaded the latest Context zip file. That didn't work for some reason. Fmtutil failed on pdftex and pdfetex. Then I reinstalled TeXLive 2003, the only change being that I did not first wipe out the web2c directory. Now TeXlive seems to work. As you may have noticed, the TeXlive installation program doesn't wipe out an existing web2c. Just why retaining an old web2c directory helps
On Tuesday 14 October 2003 19:11, George N. White III wrote: things along I don't know. -- John Culleton Able Typesetters and Indexers http://wexfordpress.com
At 00:53 16/10/2003, you wrote:
On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, John Culleton wrote:
I installed the latest version of TeXLive 2003 (the so-called demo version) and did the fmtutil and texhash bit. When I ran a job for a customer, texexec hung up at the point where a graphic was being loaded. So I went back to last year's texlive in a terrible hurry. That worked fine.
What platform? Slackware 9.1 I reinstalled 2002 TeXlive to get my customer's job out the door. That worked. Then I downloaded the latest Context zip file. That didn't work for some reason. Fmtutil failed on pdftex and pdfetex. Then I reinstalled TeXLive 2003, the only change being that I did not first wipe out the web2c directory. Now TeXlive seems to work. As you may have noticed, the TeXlive installation program doesn't wipe out an existing web2c. Just why retaining an old web2c directory helps
On Tuesday 14 October 2003 19:11, George N. White III wrote: things along I don't know.
Wipe out and set variables like the folowing (in a start up script), just to make sure that preinstalled tex's got lost: TEXROOT=$1 export TEXROOT TEXMFMAIN=$TEXROOT/texmf TEXMFLOCAL=$TEXROOT/texmf-local TEXMFFONTS=$TEXROOT/texmf-fonts TEXMFPROJECT=$TEXROOT/texmf-project TEXMFOS=$TEXROOT/texmf-linux VARTEXMF=$TMP/texmf-var export TEXMFMAIN export TEXMFLOCAL export TEXMFPROJECT export TEXMFFONTS export TEXMFOS export VARTEXMF PATH=$TEXMFOS/bin:$PATH export PATH HOMETEXMF=/nonexist export HOMETEXMF TEXMFCNF=$TEXROOT/texmf{-local,}/web2c TEXMF='{$TEXMFOS,$TEXMFPROJECT,$TEXMFFONTS,$TEXMFLOCAL,!!$TEXMFMAIN}' TEXFORMATS=$TEXMFOS/web2c TEXPOOL=$TEXFORMATS MPPOOL=$TEXFORMATS export TEXMFCNF export TEXMF export TEXFORMATS export TEXPOOL export MPPOOL TEXINPUTS= MPINPUTS= MFINPUTS= export TEXINPUTS export MPINPUTS export MFINPUTS
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