On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 10:53 PM, wrote:

Mojca,

OK, saw your new post on:

http://blog.miktex.org/post/2008/05/ConTeXt-support.aspx

So, I extracted cont-tfm.zip to c:\Contet, used Miktex2.7->Settings to add it as a Root, refreshed the filename database, but the formats will still not build in Miktext2.7->Settings->Format cont-en.pdftex.

Creating the cont-en.pdftex format file... Running pdftex... This is pdfTeX, Version 3.141592-1.40.4 (MiKTeX 2.7) (INITEX)

entering extended mode

("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\context\config\cont-en.ini")

! Emergency stop.

<*> cont-en.ini

You could try to change "cont-en.ini" into "cont-en.tex". I have no idea what's the difference, but one of the two of you who have complained about non-working ConTeXt on MikTeX reported that changing cont-en.ini into cont-en.tex has helped.

makefmt: pdftex failed on cont-en.ini. initexmf.EXE: The operation failed for some reason.

I got that one lots of time as well, but no idea why.

And my new format attempt won't build either:

("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\context\patterns\lang-hu.pat"

! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [pattern memory=300000].

l.1243 ^^c3^^a1h1ors

That one should be solvable, it's only that MikTeX handles those memory values in some non-standard way. See this thread: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-general-1/miktex-tex-capacity-... http://docs.miktex.org/manual/initexmf.html I guess that it could be something like initexmf --edit-config-file pdftex.cfg and then you set pattern-memory or pattern_memory to some larger value. But you would need to google and test.

Finally, I gave up on trying to use Miktex2.7->Settings to build the formats, opened a DOS box, and typed:

$ texmfstart texexec --make --all

If you create texexec.bat, you don't need to type all that. I never use texmfstart, only texexec or context.

I refreshed the filename database, now things seemingly work.

This file:

\starttext Hello, World! \stoptext

Does compile with:

$ texmfstart texexec --pdf junk.tex

And this file:

input mp-tool

beginfig(1);

numeric u; 10u=4in;

drawdblarrow (-5u,0)--(5u,0); label.rt(btex $\theta$ etex, (5u,0)); drawdblarrow (0,-5u)--(0,5u); label.top(btex $\phi$ etex, (0,5u));

endfig;

end.

Does compile with:

$ mpost junk.mp

And more importantly, mptopdf now seemingly works, as I can now do:

$ mptopdf junk.1

Which produces junk-1.pdf and opens correctly with the correct fonts.

Great :)

So, we'll see how this stands up ....

Thanks for the help.

Still open to further suggestion if any critique of my method.

See above, but if texexec --make works OK, that's fine. There have been numerous problems with formats in MikTeX and I wasn't sure if they have been resolved or not. Mojca

Am Thu, 2 Oct 2008 15:53:39 -0500 schrieb dwarnold45@suddenlink.net:

So, I extracted cont-tfm.zip to c:\Contet, used Miktex2.7->Settings to add it as a Root, refreshed the filename database, but the formats will still not build in Miktext2.7->Settings->Format cont-en.pdftex.

Creating the cont-en.pdftex format file... Running pdftex... This is pdfTeX, Version 3.141592-1.40.4 (MiKTeX 2.7) (INITEX)

entering extended mode

("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\context\config\cont-en.ini")

! Emergency stop.

<*> cont-en.ini

I downloaded cont-tfm.zip and looked into the zip: There are no cont-en.ini there. So from where did you get this .ini and what's its content? -- Ulrike Fischer