Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:

Alan's log: This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.30.4-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.5) (INITEX) 24 MAY 2006 06:40 entering extended mode ***cont-en.ini (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/config/cont-en.ini (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/base/cont-en.tex (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/base/context.tex (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/base/syst-pln.tex

Both have the latest release. So the only difference that really could matter: 1. older version of pdf(e)tex;

no problem here

2. natural.tcx is not called.

probably the problem

Can anybody help? I'm unable to reproduce the problem here; I can generate formats both with texmfstart texexec --make --all and with fmtutil-sys --byfmt cont-en.

i dunno how fmtutil works, but maybe you can pass the -8bit switch to pdftex somehow (or translate-file=natural.tcx) an alternative is to regenerate the patterns ctxtools --pat will generate them, given that in the meantime the original names/content of pattern sources hasn't changed) i know from discussion on the tex live list that tetex was ot that fond of being 8 bit clean (all this locale stuff and wanting to have ^^X kind dof output on the terminal) but because context (sometimes) need a round trip 8 bit, i assume an 8 bit clean tex (btw, fmtutil does not support the engine subpath either - which was reported to be too complex to implement) 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------