Hi, On Mon, 09 Jan 2006 12:14:18 -0700, Jilani Khaldi wrote:

Is there a particular procedure (read sinple) to update MikteX (for Windows) without breaking the already installed distribution? Or to wait for a while until a MikTeX Update is ready? Thanks!

The best thing to do is install MiKTeX without ConTeXt support, and then extract cont-tmf.zip into \texmf-local, then refresh the fndb. I don't know how often Christian updates ConTeXt so I can't speak to that-) But in my experience, if you want to painlessly keep ConTeXt up to date, install your distro of choice without ConTeXt and just add it on yourself locally. best Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/

On Tue, 10 Jan 2006 16:38:36 -0700, Jilani Khaldi wrote:

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The best thing to do is install MiKTeX without ConTeXt support, and then extract cont-tmf.zip into \texmf-local, then refresh the fndb.

Just doing: texexec --make or something else?

Normally you do first mktexlsr (or whatever maintainance utility MiKTeX pipes it through), although I think the new texexec automatically refreshes the fndb for you these days... Eid Mubarak-) Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/

On 1/9/06, Hans Hagen wrote:

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Just update to this release, and ... ConTeXt stops work with my files :(

ah ... sorry ... i hate this font name mess

in type-akb.tex search for:

\starttypescript [adobekb,berry] [t5]

and comment this typescript (see attached file)

if that works ok, i'll make a new zip

Now this is a persistent problem

- some distributions only ship with the u* font files - others with the p* font files - it even changes now and then - and it was suggested that nowadays p* would work everywhere - which it doesn't - because vietnamese does not have p* files - so we need to use u* ones - till someone tells me to use p* ones - which, of course, then will not be available everywhere - and so on

so, now it looks like we end up with a mixture of p* for non vietnamese and u* for vietnamese

(an option is to use the cont-fnt zip file and forget about adobekb/berry naming but i didn't test it with vietnamese [yet])

Hans

I updated the file, rebuild data (texexec --make --all ..... like wiki page) But that does not help, there are now another errors: ... (/work/apps/teTeX/share/texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-map.tex) (/work/apps/teTeX/share/texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-spe.tex) (/work/apps/teTeX/share/texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-akb.tex))kpathsea: Running mktextfm t5-uplr8a /work/apps/teTeX/share/texmf/web2c/mktexnam: Could not map typeface abbreviation 5- for t5-uplr8a. /work/apps/teTeX/share/texmf/web2c/mktexnam: Need to update /work/apps/teTeX/share/texmf-dist/fonts/map/fontname/special.map? mktextfm: Running mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfive; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input t5-uplr8a This is METAFONT, Version 2.71828 (Web2C 7.5.4) kpathsea: Running mktexmf t5-uplr8a ! I can't find file `t5-uplr8a'. <*> ...jfive; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input t5-uplr8a Please type another input file name ! Emergency stop. <*> ...jfive; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input t5-uplr8a Transcript written on mfput.log. grep: t5-uplr8a.log: No such file or directory mktextfm: `mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfive; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input t5-uplr8a' failed to make t5-uplr8a.tfm. kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log. ! Font \*palatino12ptrmtf*:=t5-uplr8a at 12.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not found. <to be read again> \relax \xxdododefinefont ...tspec {#4}\newfontidentifier \let \localrelativefontsiz... \fontstrategy ...me \fontclass #2#3#4#5\endcsname \tryingfontfalse \fi <inserted text> ...yle \fontalternative \fontsize \fi \iftryingfont \fontstr... \synchronizefont ...strategy \the \fontstrategies \relax \fi \iftryingfont \... <argument> \getvalue {\@style@ \fontstyle } \edef \fontstyle {\fontstyle }\if... ... l.176 \setupbodyfont[palatino,12pt] FYI, Cheers, -- http://vnoss.org Vietnamese Open Source Software Community

VnPenguin wrote:

On 1/9/06, Hans Hagen wrote:

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Just update to this release, and ... ConTeXt stops work with my files :(

ah ... sorry ... i hate this font name mess

in type-akb.tex search for:

\starttypescript [adobekb,berry] [t5]

and comment this typescript (see attached file)

if that works ok, i'll make a new zip

Now this is a persistent problem

- some distributions only ship with the u* font files - others with the p* font files - it even changes now and then - and it was suggested that nowadays p* would work everywhere - which it doesn't - because vietnamese does not have p* files - so we need to use u* ones - till someone tells me to use p* ones - which, of course, then will not be available everywhere - and so on

so, now it looks like we end up with a mixture of p* for non vietnamese and u* for vietnamese

(an option is to use the cont-fnt zip file and forget about adobekb/berry naming but i didn't test it with vietnamese [yet])

Hans

I updated the file, rebuild data (texexec --make --all ..... like wiki page) But that does not help, there are now another errors:

ok, another attempt (attacted file, no need for a format remake) Hans

On 1/10/06, Hans Hagen wrote:

ok, another attempt (attacted file, no need for a format remake)

Hans

This time it works :-) Thank you, -- http://vnoss.org Vietnamese Open Source Software Community