New ConTeXt with old teTeX problem?
Good evening. After some time I tried to install the newest ConTeXt over my old teTeX in SuSE Linux 9.2. Everything seems to work. I use texexec version 5.4.3 with ConTeXt version 2005.08.31. ConTeXt gives this warning: systems : pdfTeX version 110 -> please update systems : eTeX version 201 -> too old (bugs) Then it failes on the minimal file: % output=pdf \starttext text \stoptext and gives this error: ! Missing { inserted. <to be read again> r <argument> \pdfobj r eserveobjnum {}\setxvalue \pdffontresource {\the \pdflas... \firstofoneargument #1->#1 <argument> ...tencoding }\to \everybeforeshipout } \fi \fi \ifcsname \pdffont... \firstofoneargument #1->#1 \doincludepdffontresource ...cludepdffontresource \fi ... l.5 \stoptext What's the problem? The old pdfetex? How can I upgrade it without reinstalling the whole SuSE system? I wouldn't mind to reject the teTeX and use Pragma's mimimum TeX distribution, but it does'nt include Metafont and I still need some .mf bitmapped fonts. Can you help me please? Your sincerely Michal Kvasnicka
Michal Kvasnička wrote:
Good evening.
After some time I tried to install the newest ConTeXt over my old teTeX in SuSE Linux 9.2. Everything seems to work. I use texexec version 5.4.3 with ConTeXt version 2005.08.31. ConTeXt gives this warning: systems : pdfTeX version 110 -> please update systems : eTeX version 201 -> too old (bugs)
What's the problem? The old pdfetex? How can I upgrade it without reinstalling the whole SuSE system? I wouldn't mind to reject the teTeX and use Pragma's mimimum TeX distribution, but it does'nt include Metafont and I still need some .mf bitmapped fonts.
This page might help: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/TeTeX_3.0_installation Cheers, Taco
Many thanks. I tried it, but make-process failed. It is a long time since I last compiled something, so I'm completely lost. Isn't the binary package for SuSE 9.2 somewhere on the net? My attempts to find it out failed. :-( It looks I will have to upgrade my system. :-(((
This page might help:
Nonetheless, many thanks anyway. M.K.
On 9/28/05, Michal Kvasnička
Many thanks. I tried it, but make-process failed. It is a long time since I last compiled something, so I'm completely lost. Isn't the binary package for SuSE 9.2 somewhere on the net? My attempts to find it out failed. :-( It looks I will have to upgrade my system. :-(((
Look for RPM package of teTeX 3.0 for SUSE 9.2, normally in update tree. If not found, you can build teTeX 3.0 from source. It takes me about 10' to have teTeX 3.0 with latest ConTeXt running under Linux Fedora. Good luck, -- http://vnoss.org Vietnamese Open Source Software Community
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Many thanks. I tried it, but make-process failed. It is a long time since I last compiled something, so I'm completely lost. Isn't the binary package for SuSE 9.2 somewhere on the net? My attempts to find it out failed. :-( It looks I will have to upgrade my system. :-(((
This page might help:
unix distributions are often quite behind with tex; you can try the minimal linux distribution on our web site Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------
Hi All, how to make a boxed formula with ConTeXt? Thanks! -- // Jilani KHALDI http://jkhaldi.oltrelinux.com
David Munger wrote:
The way I usually do it:
\startformula \mframed[offset=.3em,rulethickness=1pt]{a^2 + b^2 = c^2} \stopformula
Thank you for your answer. I seems that "\startformula .. \stopformula" doesn't have any effect to produce a "dispaly mode" formula. so: \startformula \mframed[offset=.3em,rulethickness=1pt]{a^2 + b^2 = c^2} \stopformula and: \mframed[offset=.3em,rulethickness=1pt]{a^2 + b^2 = c^2} give the same result, as in text mode. Is there a way to get, for example, the output of: \startformula I=x-\sqrt2\,arctg\frac{x}{\sqrt2}+C \stopformula boxed? Thank you. jk -- // Jilani KHALDI http://jkhaldi.oltrelinux.com
Jilani,
Thank you for your answer. I seems that "\startformula .. \stopformula" doesn't have any effect to produce a "dispaly mode" formula.
When I try: \startformula \mframed[offset=.3em,rulethickness=1pt]{ I=x-\sqrt2\,\arctan\frac{x}{\sqrt2}+C} \stopformula it does typeset a displayed formula. However, you could still force displayed style by adding a \displaystyle command at the beginning of your \mframed argument. Regards, David
\startformula \mframed[offset=.3em,rulethickness=1pt]{ I=x-\sqrt2\,\arctan\frac{x}{\sqrt2}+C} \stopformula
it does typeset a displayed formula. However, you could still force displayed style by adding a \displaystyle command at the beginning of your \mframed argument.
That's ok now using \displaystyle. Thank you! jk -- // Jilani KHALDI http://jkhaldi.oltrelinux.com
Good evening. Many thanks to all of you that helped me to install teTeX 3.0. I found that I can really use SuSE 9.3 rpms under my SuSE 9.2, which quite surprised me. (I can't use Mr. Hagen's minimumdistribution, because there is no MetaFont in it, and I still use some bitmapped fonts, e.g. Concrete Math). Now I have to solve the last (I hope so) problem: The Czech encoding. I have all my input files in ISO Latin 2 encoding. It was no problem up to now because I used fonts with IL2 encoding. What shoud I do now the new LM fonts? (BTW, is it all right that I have to include \loadmapfile[psclean.map] in all my documents? LM fonts are not preloaded, and I can't find in teTeX 3.0 pdftex.conf to include it.) (In the last two years I missed all font-related changes in ConTeXt. What manuals should I read to understand how to use ConTeXt properly?) With many thanks Michal Kvasnicka P.S. And by the way, in the future I may need to switch all my inputs into UTF8. How can I typeset files like that in the ConTeXt? Many thanks.
Michal Kvasnička wrote:
What's the problem? The old pdfetex? How can I upgrade it without reinstalling the whole SuSE system? I wouldn't mind to reject the teTeX and use Pragma's mimimum TeX distribution, but it does'nt include Metafont and I still need some .mf bitmapped fonts.
The official rpms are under ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/ (but you probably already know that). If you don't succeed to "make" and if you would like to use teTeX 3.0, try if rpm --i tetex-3.0-13.i586.rpm on ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/9.3/suse/i586/tetex-3.0-13.i586.rpm fails or not. Perhaps you have some luck and it will work. (I just installed some packeges from an older CD and it worked.) Btw, Suse 10.0 contains not only the latest teTeX, but also the latest ConTeX, which is a kind of miracle!!! Minimal distribution doesn't mean that you have to throw the existing distribution away. It's pretty isolated and works well for most cases - it usually completely ignores the existing distribution and you can use the minimal ConTeXt without root/administrator privileges. All you have to do is to extract the files for minimal distribution to any folder and run setuptex (each time you go to the shell, but you can add a line to .[someshell]rc). ... Unless you need metafont for generating your ConTeXt documents. Mojca
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