Re: [NTG-context] Problem installing minimals on PowerMac G4
On Sun, 5 Jun 2011 03:23:54 Mojca Miklavec wrote
How exactly do you run MKIV?
I always use TeXShop with an engine-file (in ~/Library/TeXShop/Engines), made executable, in this case mkiv-04-06.engine, which reads: #!/bin/bash source /Users/robert/context-minimals-04-06/tex/setuptex context "$1" It works on my other machines. Incidentally, I found that mkiv does not work on this machine with the october minimals either, so maybe it never worked on this PowerMac (Tiger). I failed to notice it because I always used mkii and I only started using mkiv recently. I cannot check it either, since I trashed earlier minimals. Kind regards, Robert Blackstone
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 09:59, Robert Blackstone wrote:
On Sun, 5 Jun 2011 03:23:54 Mojca Miklavec wrote
How exactly do you run MKIV?
I always use TeXShop with an engine-file (in ~/Library/TeXShop/Engines), made executable, in this case mkiv-04-06.engine, which reads: #!/bin/bash
source /Users/robert/context-minimals-04-06/tex/setuptex context "$1" It works on my other machines. Incidentally, I found that mkiv does not work on this machine with the october minimals either, so maybe it never worked on this PowerMac (Tiger). I failed to notice it because I always used mkii and I only started using mkiv recently. I cannot check it either, since I trashed earlier minimals.
Judging from your log: "The argument "/Users/robertblackstone/Dropbox/C-tests/Titles-interline_spacing_of/Titles-interline_spacing_of-test1PM.tex" is not a valid TEXROOT path. I would say that there is a problem with your TeXshop. This means that you must have called "source /Users/robert/context-minimals-04-06/tex/setuptex /Users/robertblackstone/Dropbox/C-tests/Titles-interline_spacing_of/Titles-interline_spacing_of-test1PM.tex" somehow. Please try to open Terminal.app and write: source /Users/robert/context-minimals-04-06/tex/setuptex context /Users/robertblackstone/Dropbox/C-tests/Titles-interline_spacing_of/Titles-interline_spacing_of-test1PM.tex and see if that one fails as well. Mojca
On 06/06/2011 10:05 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 09:59, Robert Blackstone wrote:
On Sun, 5 Jun 2011 03:23:54 Mojca Miklavec wrote
How exactly do you run MKIV?
I always use TeXShop with an engine-file (in ~/Library/TeXShop/Engines), made executable, in this case mkiv-04-06.engine, which reads: #!/bin/bash
source /Users/robert/context-minimals-04-06/tex/setuptex context "$1" It works on my other machines. Incidentally, I found that mkiv does not work on this machine with the october minimals either, so maybe it never worked on this PowerMac (Tiger). I failed to notice it because I always used mkii and I only started using mkiv recently. I cannot check it either, since I trashed earlier minimals.
Judging from your log:
"The argument "/Users/robertblackstone/Dropbox/C-tests/Titles-interline_spacing_of/Titles-interline_spacing_of-test1PM.tex" is not a valid TEXROOT path.
I would say that there is a problem with your TeXshop. This means that you must have called
"source /Users/robert/context-minimals-04-06/tex/setuptex /Users/robertblackstone/Dropbox/C-tests/Titles-interline_spacing_of/Titles-interline_spacing_of-test1PM.tex"
It could perhaps be a line ending problem (\r <=> \n), where bash actually sees something like this?: source /Users/robert/context-minimals-04-06/tex/setuptex\rcontext "$1" Best wishes, Taco
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 10:05:15, Mojca Miklavec wrote
Please try to open Terminal.app and write:
source /Users/robert/context-minimals-04-06/tex/setuptex context /Users/robertblackstone/Dropbox/C-tests/Titles-interline_spacing_of/Titles-interline_spacing_of-test1PM.tex
and see if that one fails as well.
When I write: source /Users/robertblackstone/context-minimals-04-06-11/tex/setuptex, (this is the correct name) in all but one caseTerminal responds with: "/Users/robertblackstone/context-minimals-04-06-11" is not a valid TEXROOT path. (There is no file "/Users/robertblackstone/context-minimals-04-06-11/texmf/tex/plain/base/plain.tex") provide a proper tex root (like '. setuptex /something/tex')" Only if I change the working directory to /Users/robertblackstone/context-minimals-04-06-11/tex/ the response is: "Setting "/Users/robertblackstone/context-minimals-04-06-11/tex" as ConTeXt root." and I can process tex-files both with mkii and mkiv . The resulting pdf, however, placed in the same working directory, is not correct. I found, helped by ConTeXt garden, that I could activate ConTeXt-minimals-04-06-11 on this machine by typing: "export PATH=/Users/robertblackstone/ConTeXt-minimals-04-06-11/tex/texmf-osx-ppc/bin:$PATH" from any directory and get the correct output. I accordingly changed the TeXShop engine and that also works now. The only issue still remaining is the interruption during the installation process. I have no clue as to what could be the cause. I tried to avoid it by running "umask 0022" and even "umask 0002" before creating the new minimals directory, but that did not help. But using ctrl-D a few times, as Mojca suggested, when the installation process stops midway, eventually results in a usable minimals. Maybe some functions do not work but I have not yet discovered any. So that might not be a real problem after all. Thanks for the help. Kind regards, Robert Blackstone
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 13:19, Robert Blackstone wrote:
The only issue still remaining is the interruption during the installation process. I have no clue as to what could be the cause.
Please try to send more information. Mojca
participants (3)
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Mojca Miklavec
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Robert Blackstone
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Taco Hoekwater