Dear Pablo, Dear List I have done all you told me yesterday. What I do not understand is that the Diagnosis in WinEdt 11 says, that everything is ok. Also the PDF-Viewer. Sorry, but I can't copy it, so I tell what I see. What I do not understand, because there is no PDF But now I tried to do what you have told me and the last line, Pablo in cmd.exe says the same, what I get, if I compile: no format five given, quitting Uschi -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Ursula Hermann Gesendet: Montag, 19. Februar 2024 14:42 An: mailing list for ConTeXt users Betreff: [NTG-context] Re: Sorry for once more asking, i am at Work Dear Pablo, I shell try it. Many thanks. Uschi -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context Gesendet: Montag, 19. Februar 2024 14:31 An: ntg-context@ntg.nl Cc: Pablo Rodriguez Betreff: [NTG-context] Re: Sorry for once more asking, i am at Work On 2/19/24 13:06, Ursula Hermann wrote:

Dear List,

I have done the new download at Work. After compiling is always the same:

Command Line:   context.exe --synctex=-1 "context-test.tex" […] startup error : no format file given, quitting

Dear Uschi, it is really hard to know what is wrong with your installation (other than it ConTeXt is not able to find your format file). Sorry if this message is painfully verbose, but I will try not to take anything for granted (so I don’t overlook anything relevant). Could you save a new "test-doc.tex" file in your desktop directory (which would be named "%USERPROFILE%\Desktop\test-doc.tex" [including its full path])? "%USERPROFILE%\Desktop\test-doc.tex" should contain: \starttext \input zapf \stoptext Please, compile it by simply invoking ("cd %USEPROFILE%\Desktop\" might be required before): context test-doc If you get the same error message:

startup error : no format file given, quitting

You might try (to make the format file): context --make --all Then, try compiling again (run "context test-doc"). If you get the same error message, let’s try a brand-new installation (not removing any existing one). Get http://lmtx.pragma-ade.nl/install-lmtx/context-mswin.zip (if you use Windows 32bt) or http://lmtx.pragma-ade.nl/install-lmtx/context-win64.zip (for Windows 64bit) into "%USERPROFILE%\Desktop\". Unzip the downloaded file to a newly created folder in your desktop ("%USERPROFILE%\Desktop\context"). Double-click on "install.bat" that you just uncompressed. You have to add the new path, so that Windows may find your executables. Open a new terminal (I guess it is called “command prompt” [or »Eingabeaufforderung«] in Windows-parlance) and paste (if you have ConTeXt for 32bit): set PATH=%PATH%;%USERPROFILE%\Desktop\context\tex\texmf-mswin\bin Or this (if you use ConTeXt for 64bit): set PATH=%PATH%;%USERPROFILE%\Desktop\context\tex\texmf-win64\bin Then, on the same window (since this only sets paths for the current session), run: mtxrun --generate && cd %USERPROFILE%\Desktop\ && context test-doc.tex Just in case you wonder, the first command is required for any brand-new install. The second command sets the desktop as your current directory (where you should have "test.doc.tex"). And the third command compiles that source document. If none of all my previous suggestions works, sorry but I cannot figure out what might be preventing ConTeXt from finding the format files. Just in case it might help, Pablo ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / https://mailman.ntg.nl/mailman3/lists/ntg-context.ntg.nl webpage : https://www.pragma-ade.nl / https://context.aanhet.net (mirror) archive : https://github.com/contextgarden/context wiki : https://wiki.contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / https://mailman.ntg.nl/mailman3/lists/ntg-context.ntg.nl webpage : https://www.pragma-ade.nl / https://context.aanhet.net (mirror) archive : https://github.com/contextgarden/context wiki : https://wiki.contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________

Hi Uschi, I think there are two separate issues. The first is possible trouble with the install from the ConTeXt garden. (Maybe this is related to “startup error : no format file given, quitting.”) The second is that you call PdfLaTeX to typeset your document, even though I know that is not what you intend. Since you have TeX Live, I recommend you get the ConTeXt in TeX Live working first, then decide if you need the latest ConTeXt from the garden.

On Feb 20, 2024, at 7:21 AM, Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context wrote:

The engine you are using is pdfTeX (from TeX Live 2023). In ConTeXt terms, this is almost ancient (»uralt«).

Just to clarify, TeX Live 2023 has a perfectly good, rather up-to-date version of ConTeXt. I’m using it to typeset books and papers with all sorts of MetaFun craziness. However, if I attempt to typeset one of these ConTeXt documents using PdfLaTeX, I get exactly the same error and log file that you get. I don’t know how you are calling PdfLaTeX to typeset your document, context-test.tex, but that is what you are doing. Until you get that straightened out, it won’t matter what version of ConTeXt you have installed. Gavin

Dear Pablo and Gavin, Many many many Thanks. Ok so I took pdflatex away now, and could compile selected. Uschi -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context Gesendet: Mittwoch, 21. Februar 2024 10:24 An: Gavin via ntg-context Cc: Pablo Rodriguez Betreff: [NTG-context] Re: Sorry for once more asking, i am at Work On 2/20/24 19:03, Gavin via ntg-context wrote:

[…] I don’t know how you are calling PdfLaTeX to typeset your document, context-test.tex, but that is what you are doing.

Hi Uschi and Gavin, I will try to go the same way you propose, Gavin. Otherwise, Uschi may find it hard to follow totally independent suggestions. Uschi, if you are compiling your ConTeXt sources using WinEdt, your issue might be the wrong button (or the wrong keystroke combination). You might be invoking pdflatex directly, or maybe a button or keystroke combination is labelled ConTeXt and it may really be invoking pdflatex. In that case, you have to check WinEdt to see which command is run when you start the compilation process (which command you really invoke). Another way to see which ConTeXt binary you invoke would be to type in the command prompt "context --version" (with no path specified) and "where context". But this is independent from the issue that you get pdflatex when you intend context. I hope it helps now, Pablo ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / https://mailman.ntg.nl/mailman3/lists/ntg-context.ntg.nl webpage : https://www.pragma-ade.nl / https://context.aanhet.net (mirror) archive : https://github.com/contextgarden/context wiki : https://wiki.contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________