Hans Hagen writes:

At 22:50 12/10/2003, Ed L Cashin wrote: ...

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Some months ago another columns implementation came out, but if I recall correctly, when you have columns of vboxes separated by very stretchy glue, the new columns implementation can't bottom-align them either.

got you:

\starttext

\startcolumnset

\dorecurse{100} {\framed [width=\hsize,height=fit,align=normal] {\getrandomnumber\whatever{1}{9}% \dorecurse\whatever{\strut test \recurselevel\endgraf}} \vfilll}

\stopcolumnset

\stoptext

Oh, I can't wait to see what that example does! Does it show that I am not recalling correctly? I hope so. The example, though, doesn't result in a pdf file for me when I put it into a file, "test.tex", and run "texexec --pdf test". Acrobat Reader 4.0 says, "There was an error opening this document. Could not repair file." ecashin@marblerye tmp$ PATH=/opt/teTeX-1.0.7/bin:$PATH texexec --pdf test TeXExec 3.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2003 executable : pdfetex format : cont-en inputfile : test output : pdftex interface : en current mode : none TeX run : 1 This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-13d-2.1 (Web2C 7.3.1) entering extended mode ... pdftex : needs map file: original-vogel-symbol.map systems : begin file test at line 1 systems : randomizer starts with 903229090 [1.1[/opt/teTeX-1.0.7/share/texmf/dvips/config/pdftex.map]] [2.2] return code : 11 run time : 2 seconds total run time : 2 seconds ecashin@marblerye tmp$ acroread test.pdf ecashin@marblerye tmp$ -- --Ed L Cashin | PGP public key: ecashin@uga.edu | http://noserose.net/e/pgp/

At 19:21 15.10.2003, George N.White wrote:

On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Ed L Cashin wrote:

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Hans Hagen writes:

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\starttext

\startcolumnset

\dorecurse{100} {\framed [width=\hsize,height=fit,align=normal] {\getrandomnumber\whatever{1}{9}% \dorecurse\whatever{\strut test \recurselevel\endgraf}} \vfilll}

\stopcolumnset

\stoptext

Oh, I can't wait to see what that example does! Does it show that I am not recalling correctly? I hope so.

The example, though, doesn't result in a pdf file for me when I put it into a file, "test.tex", and run "texexec --pdf test".

The example works for me, using TeX Live 2003 with a newer (beta) cont-tmf.tex:

$ texexec --pdf context-align.tex [...] This is pdfeTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.11a-2.1 (Web2C 7.5.2) [...] ConTeXt ver: 2003.9.26 fmt: 2003.10.14 int: english mes: english [...] systems : begin file context-align at line 69 systems : randomizer starts with 995399654 [1.1{/opt/texLive/texmf-var/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map}] [2.2] [3.3] [4.4] [5.5] [6.6] [7.7] systems : end file context-align at line 82 ){/opt/texLive/texmf/dvips/tetex/f7b6d320.enc} Output written on context-align.pdf (7 pages, 14051 bytes). Transcript written on context-align.log. The given example works also here with texlive7 and ConTeXt ver: 2003.9.25 fmt: 2003.9.25 int: english mes: english

Willi

Hans Hagen writes:

At 18:54 15/10/2003, you wrote:

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TeXExec 3.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2003

this should be no problem but we have 4.0 now

This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-13d-2.1 (Web2C 7.3.1)

...

entering extended mode

but version 13d is asking for problems and around that ime column sets were not there

just pick up the zip mentioned in an earlier mail and try that one (new binaries, new tex)

I looked around a bit in the archives, but I'm not sure which zip that is, so I decided to go ahead and upgrade my whole tetex to 2.0.2. I went to pragma-ade and followed the links to find pdftex 14h. By the way, I am a little confused about the stable pdftex numbering scheme (like 1.11a) and how it relates to the 14h numbering scheme. I got the cont-tmf-20030925.zip and unpacked it in my texmf directory. I copied each foo.pl file in context/perltk to ../bin/foo (no ".pl" extension), made sure /opt/tetex-2.0.2/bin was in my $PATH, made sure texexec.ini was there, ran fmtutil --edit to activate the context formats, ran fmtutil --all to generate the formats. OK, but texexec was just showing the usage. I read the minstall.pdf document to see if I missed anything, but I couldn't find anything. Just to see what would happen, I then got pdftex 14h and unzipped it in the bin dir, moving the pool files to texmf/web2c. Then I did mktexlsr and fmtutil --all, but I see this error message in the output: running `pdfetex -ini -jobname=cont-en -progname=context *cont-en.ini' ... pdfetex: unrecognized option `-jobname=cont-en' Try `pdfetex --help' for more information. Error: `pdfetex -ini -jobname=cont-en -progname=context *cont-en.ini' failed ... This is a summary of all `failed' messages and warnings: `pdftex -ini -jobname=pdftex -progname=pdftex pdftex.ini' failed `pdftex -ini -jobname=pdflatex -progname=pdflatex pdflatex.ini' failed `pdfetex -ini -jobname=pdfetex -progname=pdfetex *pdfetex.ini' failed `pdfetex -ini -jobname=pdfelatex -progname=pdfelatex *pdfelatex.ini' failed `pdfetex -ini -jobname=cont-en -progname=context *cont-en.ini' failed `pdfetex -ini -jobname=cont-nl -progname=context *cont-nl.ini' failed `pdfetex -ini -jobname=cont-uk -progname=context *cont-uk.ini' failed `pdfetex -ini -jobname=mptopdf -progname=mptopdf mptopdf.tex' failed root@marblerye texmf# I tried "texexec --make", but texexec is still just showing a usage message and exiting. The --verbose option doesn't change that. Any suggestions or pointers would be most appreciated. -- --Ed L Cashin | PGP public key: ecashin@uga.edu | http://noserose.net/e/pgp/

Ed L Cashin writes: ...

Texexec still just shows a usage message. I bet I have to change something in texexec.ini, but I couldn't find it last time I looked. I'll look again.

Now by doing "pdfetex \&cont-en test.tex" I'm able to see the example that made me want to upgrade.

It turned out that when I copied the new perl files to the bin directory, there were some old symlinks there, and texutil was overwriting texexec. That was hard to figure out! ... but only because I wasn't reading the usage message carefully. It did say "texutil". :) -- --Ed L Cashin | PGP public key: ecashin@uga.edu | http://noserose.net/e/pgp/