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Given the following file that uses definecolumnset and startcolumnset/stopcolumnset (largely from the wiki https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command/definecolumnset) for input: %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \setuppapersize[letter] \definecolumnset[TwoColumns][n=2] \startcolumnset [TwoColumns] \title{Test page} \framed [frame=off, bottomframe=on, width=\textwidth, frameoffset=1mm, foregroundstyle=small, ]{\copyright\ \date[][year] Donald E. Knuth} \input knuth \stopcolumnset %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Why does context fail, producing an empty .log and .pdf, with the following information to the terminal: resolvers | formats | executing runner 'run luametatex format': /usr/local/sw/versions/context-osx-64/tex/texmf-osx-64/bin/luametatex --jobname="./x.ctx" --fmt=/usr/local/sw/versions/context-osx-64/tex/texmf-cache/luametatex-cache/context/5fe67e0bfe781ce0dde776fb1556f32e/formats/luametatex/cont-en.fmt --lua=/usr/local/sw/versions/context-osx-64/tex/texmf-cache/luametatex-cache/context/5fe67e0bfe781ce0dde776fb1556f32e/formats/luametatex/cont-en.lui --c:currentrun=1 --c:fulljobname="./x.ctx" --c:input="./x.ctx" --c:kindofrun=1 --c:maxnofruns=9 --c:texmfbinpath="/usr/local/sw/versions/context-osx-64/tex/texmf-osx-64/bin" system > system > ConTeXt ver: 2022.05.11 11:36 LMTX fmt: 2022.5.24 int: english/english system > system > 'cont-new.mkxl' loaded open source > level 1, order 1, name '/usr/local/sw/versions/context-osx-64/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/mkxl/cont-new.mkxl' system > beware: some patches loaded from cont-new.mkiv close source > level 1, order 1, name '/usr/local/sw/versions/context-osx-64/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/mkxl/cont-new.mkxl' system > files > jobname './x', input './x.ctx', result './x' fonts > latin modern fonts are not preloaded languages > language 'en' is active open source > level 1, order 2, name './x.ctx' mtx-context | fatal error: return code: 1 -- T. Kurt Bond, tkurtbond@gmail.com, https://tkurtbond.github.io
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Am 24.05.22 um 20:43 schrieb T. Kurt Bond via ntg-context:
Given the following file that uses definecolumnset and startcolumnset/stopcolumnset (largely from the wiki https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command/definecolumnset) for input:
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \setuppapersize[letter] \definecolumnset[TwoColumns][n=2] \startcolumnset [TwoColumns] \title{Test page} \framed [frame=off, bottomframe=on, width=\textwidth, frameoffset=1mm, foregroundstyle=small, ]{\copyright\ \date[][year] Donald E. Knuth} \input knuth \stopcolumnset %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
That’s not a minimal example, but it works for me (even if the text starts only on the second page): \definecolumnset[TwoColumns][n=2] \starttext \startcolumnset [TwoColumns] \title{Test page} \framed [frame=off, bottomframe=on, width=\textwidth, frameoffset=1mm, foregroundstyle=small, ]{\copyright\ \date[][year] Donald E. Knuth} \samplefile{knuth} \stopcolumnset \stoptext Hraban
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Huh. I tried it on a Linux box, and that worked. But on my main machine, a Intel 64 bit mac, I get the original result. Oh, I changed to use this input: \definecolumnset[TwoColumns][n=2] \startcolumnset [TwoColumns] \input knuth \stopcolumnset On Tue, May 24, 2022 at 3:09 PM Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context < ntg-context@ntg.nl> wrote:
Am 24.05.22 um 20:43 schrieb T. Kurt Bond via ntg-context:
Given the following file that uses definecolumnset and startcolumnset/stopcolumnset (largely from the wiki https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command/definecolumnset) for input:
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\setuppapersize[letter] \definecolumnset[TwoColumns][n=2] \startcolumnset [TwoColumns] \title{Test page} \framed [frame=off, bottomframe=on, width=\textwidth, frameoffset=1mm, foregroundstyle=small, ]{\copyright\ \date[][year] Donald E. Knuth} \input knuth \stopcolumnset
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
That’s not a minimal example, but it works for me (even if the text starts only on the second page):
\definecolumnset[TwoColumns][n=2]
\starttext \startcolumnset [TwoColumns] \title{Test page} \framed [frame=off, bottomframe=on, width=\textwidth, frameoffset=1mm, foregroundstyle=small, ]{\copyright\ \date[][year] Donald E. Knuth} \samplefile{knuth} \stopcolumnset \stoptext
Hraban
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Sigh. I should have mentioned that that I reinstalled LMTX from scratch on
both machines, and that my mac is running macOS Monterey 12.3.1.
On Tue, May 24, 2022 at 3:40 PM T. Kurt Bond
Huh. I tried it on a Linux box, and that worked. But on my main machine, a Intel 64 bit mac, I get the original result. Oh, I changed to use this input:
\definecolumnset[TwoColumns][n=2] \startcolumnset [TwoColumns] \input knuth \stopcolumnset
On Tue, May 24, 2022 at 3:09 PM Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context < ntg-context@ntg.nl> wrote:
Am 24.05.22 um 20:43 schrieb T. Kurt Bond via ntg-context:
Given the following file that uses definecolumnset and startcolumnset/stopcolumnset (largely from the wiki https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command/definecolumnset) for input:
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\setuppapersize[letter] \definecolumnset[TwoColumns][n=2] \startcolumnset [TwoColumns] \title{Test page} \framed [frame=off, bottomframe=on, width=\textwidth, frameoffset=1mm, foregroundstyle=small, ]{\copyright\ \date[][year] Donald E. Knuth} \input knuth \stopcolumnset
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
That’s not a minimal example, but it works for me (even if the text starts only on the second page):
\definecolumnset[TwoColumns][n=2]
\starttext \startcolumnset [TwoColumns] \title{Test page} \framed [frame=off, bottomframe=on, width=\textwidth, frameoffset=1mm, foregroundstyle=small, ]{\copyright\ \date[][year] Donald E. Knuth} \samplefile{knuth} \stopcolumnset \stoptext
Hraban
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I've had a similar issue since December (posted here: https://www.mail-archive.com/ntg-context@ntg.nl/msg101228.html) and trying the examples from the columnsets manual today and the version that worked for Hraban I get the same error (ConTeXt version 2022.05.02, macOS 12.4). Ben On Tue, 24 May 2022, at 20:42, T. Kurt Bond via ntg-context wrote:
Sigh. I should have mentioned that that I reinstalled LMTX from scratch on both machines, and that my mac is running macOS Monterey 12.3.1.
On Tue, May 24, 2022 at 3:40 PM T. Kurt Bond
wrote: Huh. I tried it on a Linux box, and that worked. But on my main machine, a Intel 64 bit mac, I get the original result. Oh, I changed to use this input:
\definecolumnset[TwoColumns][n=2] \startcolumnset [TwoColumns] \input knuth \stopcolumnset
On Tue, May 24, 2022 at 3:09 PM Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
wrote: Am 24.05.22 um 20:43 schrieb T. Kurt Bond via ntg-context:
Given the following file that uses definecolumnset and startcolumnset/stopcolumnset (largely from the wiki https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command/definecolumnset) for input:
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \setuppapersize[letter] \definecolumnset[TwoColumns][n=2] \startcolumnset [TwoColumns] \title{Test page} \framed [frame=off, bottomframe=on, width=\textwidth, frameoffset=1mm, foregroundstyle=small, ]{\copyright\ \date[][year] Donald E. Knuth} \input knuth \stopcolumnset %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
That’s not a minimal example, but it works for me (even if the text starts only on the second page):
\definecolumnset[TwoColumns][n=2]
\starttext \startcolumnset [TwoColumns] \title{Test page} \framed [frame=off, bottomframe=on, width=\textwidth, frameoffset=1mm, foregroundstyle=small, ]{\copyright\ \date[][year] Donald E. Knuth} \samplefile{knuth} \stopcolumnset \stoptext
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