Hi Taco, hi all! I am trying to fix all the problems for Debian ... Another thing Taco wrote was:

* TEXFORMATS as shipped with teTeX/TL is uncomplete: there is that missing format-specific subdirectory. If you are not root, then you have to create a local texmf.cnf to overrule the default texmf.cnf. I have:

TEXFORMATS = .;$TEXMF/web2c/{$engine,}

because context's texexec pushes the $engine setting to the environment, this works fine (Originally this was supposed to be handled by kpathsea, but like I said, that never got off the ground)

This change I have executed in the tex-common depot, it will not hurt anybody.

* TEXFONTMAPS is also wrong: it makes pdftex (and dvipdfmx as well, I guess) find the mapfiles for dvips before their own mapfiles (those are shipped with ConTeXt).

I have:

TEXFONTMAPS.dvipdfm = .;$TEXMF/fonts/map/{dvipdfm,dvips,}// TEXFONTMAPS.dvipdfmx = .;$TEXMF/fonts/map/{dvipdfm,dvips,}// TEXFONTMAPS.pdftex = .;$TEXMF/fonts/map/{pdftex,dvips,}// TEXFONTMAPS.pdfetex = .;$TEXMF/fonts/map/{pdftex,dvips,}// TEXFONTMAPS.xetex = .;$TEXMF/fonts/map/{xetex,pdftex,dvips,}// TEXFONTMAPS.dvips = .;$TEXMF/fonts/map/{dvips,pdftex,}// TEXFONTMAPS =.;$TEXMF/fonts/map/{$progname,pdftex,dvips,}//;\ $TEXMF/{$progname,pdftex,dvips}/{config,}//

this works fine (but it is perhaps a bit too verbose).

Debian currently has: TEXFONTMAPS = .;$TEXMF/{fonts/,}map//;$TEXMF/dvips// What about this? I am not completely convinced about it since with updmap we generate input file for all the different programs. For Taco: I have NOT installed the dvipdfm map files, only those from fonts/map/pdftex/context and fonts/map/dvips/context Furthermore I have added all the maps in fonts/map/dvips/context to the updmap config file and called updmap-sys. So now I can call texexec on several documents without any problems and all the fonts are found. What is the problem with - removing the dvipdfm maps - generating lines for dvipdfm(x), pdfetex, dvips from the dvips config files as done by updmap-sys It would be great if we could straighten this out and get nice packages for Debian rather soon. Best wishes Norbert ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Norbert Preining Università di Siena Debian Developer Debian TeX Group gpg DSA: 0x09C5B094 fp: 14DF 2E6C 0307 BE6D AD76 A9C0 D2BF 4AA3 09C5 B094 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- HERSTMONCEUX (n.) The correct name for the gold medallion worn by someone who is in the habit of wearing their shirt open to the waist. --- Douglas Adams, The Meaning of Liff

Hi all! On Die, 24 Okt 2006, Norbert Preining wrote:

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# texexec --make --all [--xetex | --aleph | --pdftex] <formats>

Where <formats> are the desired formats to run. The accepted list at the moment is: the eight ConTeXt formats, in both long ("cont-en" etc.) and short from ("en","nl","de","it","fr","cz", "ro","uk"), and "mptopdf", and the metapost mems "mpost" and "metafun".

Ok, I have rewritten the Debian context package so that it does the following: On installation/update time a script context-build-formats is called which reads the file /etc/texmf/context/formats.cnf where all the formats to be build are defined. Currently my file looks like this: # # This file defines which ConTeXt formats are build # {pdftex,aleph} {de,en,it,mptopdf} Yes, it expands the curly braces. On removal currently I don't do anything, because I don't know how to know which files should be removed. But this shouldn't be to hard, remove /usr/share/texmf/web2c/$engine/$format.* Anyway, it is not very intellignet the script, no error checking, nothing, but it runs. What do you say: - you ConTeXt people: concerning the format file, the way of updating? - you Debian people: concerning the new way to define it? The context-build-formats should be something like fmtutil(-sys) for context. I didn't come around to implement the difference between the -sys and the normal variant, but it should be easy, as in fmtutil-sys. Any suggestions? BTW, here is the code for the script, it is short: #!/bin/bash # context-build-formats export TEXMFSYSCONFIG=/usr/share/texmf parse_line() { engine=$1 format=$2 eval set $engine allengines="$@" eval set $format allformats="$@" for e in $allengines ; do for f in $allformats ; do texexec --make --$e $f done done } OIFS=$IFS IFS=' ' set $(echo x; sed '/^#/d; /^[ ]*$/d' "/etc/texmf/context/formats.cnf") ; shift IFS=$OIFS for line do parse_line $line; done # eof You see where I robbed the code ... fmtutil. Best wishes Norbert ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Norbert Preining Università di Siena Debian Developer Debian TeX Group gpg DSA: 0x09C5B094 fp: 14DF 2E6C 0307 BE6D AD76 A9C0 D2BF 4AA3 09C5 B094 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SKETTY (n.) Apparently self-propelled little dance a beer glass performs in its own puddle. --- Douglas Adams, The Meaning of Liff