Hi,

but I don't understand...I downloaded cont-tmf.zip yesterday from pragma-ade downloading page...

is it not the right place/version?

that is the only authorative(spelling?) place to download... There are mirrors, but I don't know how uptodate they are. The output you have sent me (private mail) showed that you use the latest ConTeXt texfiles, but the perl progam "texexec" was not updated. Did texexec --make --alone metafun work? Patrick -- texshow-web: http://members.ping.de:8061 ConTeXt wiki: http://members.ping.de:8062

Hi Jose,

do I have to invoke

texexec --make --alone

in a specific directory to perform correct installation of ConTeXt ?

texexec --make --alone bypasses your distribution's way of installing format files (fmtutil in your case I guess). Put the resulting format files (*.fmt, *efmt, *mem) in texmf/web2c and rerun texhash.

I have not seen anything like that mentioned in install document...

I guess it is hidden...

is lattest version of TexExec in cont-tfm.zip ?

Yes. Patrick -- texshow-web: http://members.ping.de:8061 ConTeXt wiki: http://members.ping.de:8062

Patrick Gundlach wrote:

Hi,

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but I don't understand...I downloaded cont-tmf.zip yesterday from pragma-ade downloading page...

is it not the right place/version?

that is the only authorative(spelling?) place to download... There are mirrors, but I don't know how uptodate they are.

The output you have sent me (private mail) showed that you use the latest ConTeXt texfiles, but the perl progam "texexec" was not updated.

Did texexec --make --alone metafun work?

watch out: scripts are now under ../texmf*/scripts/context and no longer under ../texmf/context/ ; normally this should make no difference but ... 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------

Hi there, after some investigation concluded I did not really installed the latest version of ConTeXt properly. This being the cause of many of my previous messages that Patrick, Hans and others (thanks to all !) so kindly replied. What I have here is a cygwin distro that comes with a texfm distro, in this distro there is ConTeXt, but an older version from what I want installed. So in the texmf tree I put context files. So far so good. But...this cygwin has a texexec shell script in /usr/bin that makes the system to launch a texexec it has in: texfm/context/perltk. I put there the new version of texexec copying into that directory all the texmf/scripts/perl directory that comes in the new version of ConTeXt. Now the new texexec is summoned. Great. I even manage to pass to him the path where to put the en nl and metafun formats (texfm/web2c) and so it does when I asked it: texexec --make --alone en nl metafun But... when trying to do texexec --pdf dummy in /cygdrive/c/documents/versions (a cygwin alias to C:\documents\versions, place where dummy.tex can be found) it says: TeXExec 4.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2004 executable : pdfetex format : /cygdrive/c/cygwin/usr/share/texmf/web2c/cont-en inputfile : pvm output : pdftex interface : en current mode : none TeX run : 1 pdfetex: unrecognized option `-fmt=cont-en' Try `pdfetex --help' for more information. return code : 256 run time : 0 seconds total run time : 1 seconds make: *** [pvm.pdf] Error 1 I suspect the pdfetex executable... any ideas? thanks ! Jose

I think I am almost there... followed instructions at levana.de/context/ it seems to be searching first the things at my place as: mktexlsr: Updating /cygdrive/c/ConTeXt/texmf/ls-R... mktexlsr: Updating /usr/share/texmf/ls-R... mktexlsr: Updating /var/cache/fonts/ls-R... my place goes first then I invoke texexec.pl with fullpath and --tex=pdfetex and copied all scripts in myPLace/texfm/scripts/perl into /usr/share/texmf/perltk (the place intermediate scripts are being called) but... eventually get: --- return code : 0 run time : 2 seconds generating graphics : metaposting mpgraph.mp TeXExec 4.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2004 metapost : mpgraph format : metafun metafun: not found total run time : 1 seconds sorting and checking : running texutil This is MetaPost, Version 0.641 (Web2C 7.4.5) ** ! End of file on the terminal... why? I am stuck even reading the previous posts...

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pdfetex: unrecognized option `-fmt=cont-en' Try `pdfetex --help' for more information.

known bug... see a message from me in thread "installation problem"

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context/15443

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yep... I have re-started once again the whole thing and I am almost there...now it does not stop on the "natural" file I suspect of a bug in recent texexec.pl file, I am using the "old" one I have from a previous version (3.1) Jose but I cannot place a blue thing in the background...I have some overlay with a blue strip I wan to put in the background and it won't come up, another overlay in the normal text area goes fine...this morning some message saying something about the background was issued but I deleted it (-gasp-) when new distributions come into place...is there anything like an standard (automatic) battery of tests (making some documents...or so...) which is performed?

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format : metafun metafun: not found

Did you copy the metafun.mem into the web2c directory?

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the blue thing was a mistake of mine...it is solved now ! will see what is failing with the update of texexec.pl...if I find the reason I will report it I like ConTeXt !! thanks Jose

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but I cannot place a blue thing in the background...I have some overlay with a blue strip I wan to put in the background and it won't come up, another overlay in the normal text area goes fine...

You might think of posting the not-working file, so we could see what is going wrong.

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this morning some message saying something about the background was issued but I deleted it (-gasp-)

You know about URL:news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context?

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when new distributions come into place...is there anything like an standard (automatic) battery of tests (making some documents...or so...) which is performed?

Good question. I have problems generating the manual documentation once in a while, so I guess these aren't used for the test :-)

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