Hi I am putting this under a new subject to distangle presumably distinct issues. Hans van der Meer schrieb:

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Additionally, there is a mysterious line in the end:

warning : use 'texmfstart texexec' instead

Now, when I do

UMac:~/Projekte/ConTeXt/uma$ texmfstart texexec --pdf main

I get a

-bash: texmfstart: command not found

Any ideas?

What I did was:

1. adding some aliases to the file .bashrc: alias texmfstart=texmfstart.rb alias texversion='texmfstart texexec --version' etc., the first one being the important one. 2. ensuring that the scripts are executable with: cd .../texmf-local-..../context/ruby (sudo) chmod -R a+x *.rb execute this in terminal as a user with administrator priveliges.

Hope this will help you on the way.

Well sort of. I tried your way and got texmfstart.rb not found So it doen't seem to be on the path. Now if I call the ruby script directly, it bails out somewhere in the middle: UMac:~/Projekte/ConTeXt/ uma$ /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/scripts/context/ruby/texmfstart.rb texexec --pdf main /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/scripts/context/ruby/texmfstart.rb:977: nested method definition def the_same(filter,filename) ^ /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/scripts/context/ruby/texmfstart.rb:981: nested method definition def the_same(filter,filename) ^ (N.B. I have a yesterday i-installed full teTeX + ConTeXt + LaTeX + ... on a Mac OS X 10.3.9.) Bye & Thanks you for the help! -- Ulf Martin