On 9/7/05, Adam Lindsay wrote:

Hi Gavin,

Two things: Are you running texfont from the directory that contains all the .otf files?

Absolutely. It's a temporary directory containing those files. The first part of the process went fine.

(This doesn't look like the problem here, but) Are you running the latest ConTeXt? There was a bug in the OpenType support in TeXFont that was fixed in the distribution as of a couple months ago.

I believe so. I installed ConTeXt for the first time about 10 days ago. It was a MiKTeX package, so I'm relying on that being up to date. I recently downloaded the mswincontext.zip package and intend to dump MiKTeX and use that instead. Haven't proceeded yet, but will let you know how it goes.

(sorry for the delay--I'm on the road)

Thanks a lot for the reply! Gavin

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Adam Lindsay's recent article "OpenType installation basics for ConTeXt" in The PracTeX Journal (http://www.tug.org/pracjourn/2005-2/lindsay) is very well written. Unfortunately, I was unable to perform the first step. [snip...]

Gavin Sinclair wrote:

Adam Lindsay wrote:

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(This doesn't look like the problem here, but) Are you running the latest ConTeXt? There was a bug in the OpenType support in TeXFont that was fixed in the distribution as of a couple months ago.

I believe so. I installed ConTeXt for the first time about 10 days ago. It was a MiKTeX package, so I'm relying on that being up to date.

Don't rely on it. MikTeX has just updated ConTeXt (after two months). Once during the last weekend and once on Monday (5.9.). However, the format is from 27.7., 6 official releases ago. Minimal ConTeXt distribution (or replacing some files in teTeX for example) is the best way if you want to keep up-to-date. (MikTeX has some other advantages however.) A while ago it was much better, but now it seems that they are busy with preparation of MikTeX 2.5. Mojca

Gavin Sinclair wrote:

On 9/8/05, Mojca Miklavec wrote:

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Gavin Sinclair wrote:

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Adam Lindsay wrote:

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(This doesn't look like the problem here, but) Are you running the latest ConTeXt? There was a bug in the OpenType support in TeXFont that was fixed in the distribution as of a couple months ago.

I believe so. I installed ConTeXt for the first time about 10 days ago. It was a MiKTeX package, so I'm relying on that being up to date.

Don't rely on it. MikTeX has just updated ConTeXt (after two months). Once during the last weekend and once on Monday (5.9.). However, the format is from 27.7., 6 official releases ago. Minimal ConTeXt distribution (or replacing some files in teTeX for example) is the best way if you want to keep up-to-date. (MikTeX has some other advantages however.)

Thanks for the tip. texexec --version tells me

context : ver: 2005.06.27 cont-en : ver: 2005.06.27 fmt: 2005.8.31 mes: english

which is pretty uncool. I guess I'll give the mswincontext.zip a try. I've hesitated because I don't see any clear instructions anywhere and the directory structure in that zip file is unusual for a Windows distro. Also don't want to ditch MiKTeX entirely because I'm experimenting with LyX. Sigh...

How about just installing ConTeXt myself on top of MiKTeX? Should work, right?

just unzip the file in some safe place, running 'setuptex' (in a dos box) should give you an isolated tex environment; it's on my agenda to provide a miktex bintree as well, but only for testing since miktex has a rather good update mechanism (no reason to duplicate that -) [my main reason for putting the minimals on the web is that they provide isolated environments, which is somethign i need for projects]; they also demonstrate what is needed for context Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

Gavin Sinclair wrote:

By "isolated tex environment" I presume you mean "an environment that only runs in that dos box". Is that right?

Does that isolated environment clash with another TeX installation (i.e. MiKTeX in this case)? I'm led to believe TeX installations are very territorial: they can't tolerate other installations on the same computer!

the minimal distributions are really isolated, this is what setuptex.bat does; one drawback of the regular distributions is that they assume that they are installed as only tex distribution; the minimals are set up in such a way that one can run many of them in parallel as well as support multiple platforms with binaries that are out of sync with each other (hence the texmf-mswin etc trees); actually, if we had a texmf-miktex binary tree we could run fptex and miktex in parallel (i have to pick up that thread) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

luigi.scarso wrote:

Hi, I need some help in installing linux and context on a DellPowerEdge 1850 with IntelXEON (64 bit) I see something on mailing list about linux64inst.tar.bz2 (a broken link http://tex.aanhet.net/temp/linux64inst.tar.bz2 (7247788bytes) )

Those executabless are now part of the minimal distribution: http://context.aanhet.net/context/install/linux64tex.zip Taco

luigi.scarso wrote:

Taco Hoekwater wrote:

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Those executabless are now part of the minimal distribution:

http://context.aanhet.net/context/install/linux64tex.zip

downloaded (many thanks taco!!) The last thing: what linux distro (SUSE, Mandriva , RH, Fedora..) ?

Executables are generated on Mandrake^H^H^H^Hiva 10.2. But I only created the binaries for the TeXLive source, I have no experience with the actual use of the linux64tex.zip file (the x86_64 machine is a network database server, not an application server so I don't use it for TeX work anyway). Good luck, Taco

Taco Hoekwater wrote:

Those executabless are now part of the minimal distribution:

http://context.aanhet.net/context/install/linux64tex.zip

$>uname -a Linux stanley.log.net 2.6.11-6mdksmp #1 SMP Tue Mar 22 15:40:42 CET 2005 i686 Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.00GHz unknown GNU/Linux $> ldd dvips dvips: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, AMD x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.4.0, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped $> chmod 700 dvips ; ./dvips bash: ./dvips: cannot execute binary file It seem that I need to compile from sources... luigi

On 9/9/05, luigi.scarso wrote:

Hi, I need some help in installing linux and context on a DellPowerEdge 1850 with IntelXEON (64 bit) I see something on mailing list about linux64inst.tar.bz2 (a broken link http://tex.aanhet.net/temp/linux64inst.tar.bz2 (7247788bytes) )

but it's unclear to me how to go on (well, it's friday....)

I build/install and run teTeX 3.0 on RHEL 3 IA64 & SUSE 9.0 AMD64 without any problem. And of course ConTeXt (standard with teTeX or updated for latest release) works very well too. FYI -- http://vnoss.org Vietnamese Open Source Software Community

Mojca Miklavec wrote:

Gavin Sinclair wrote:

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Greetings (first post),

Adam Lindsay's recent article "OpenType installation basics for ConTeXt" in The PracTeX Journal (http://www.tug.org/pracjourn/2005-2/lindsay) is very well written. Unfortunately, I was unable to perform the first step.

As the article specified, I ran the command:

$ texfont --ma --in --ve=public --co=torunska --lcdf --pre --va=liga,kern

It started off OK, but failed to properly create the map file.

After playing a bit with TeXfont I figured out that it is pretty hopeless to try to use TeXfont under windows (esp. under MikTeX) until some code portions get fixed. You can replace single quotes by double quotes in line 900 of TeXfont, but that won't lead you much further. There are problems with slashes/backslashes as well (the developers use linux & mac and probably nobody ever checked the functionality under windows besides the fact that I had problems with otftotfm alone).

the problem is limited to the otf part ... the rest works ok for me on windows

In the mean time, it's perhaps possible to use linux to make font metrics/map files and copy them to windows partition again or to manually call the otftotfm program and make a map file by yourself.

we can set up a font repository ... Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------