[NTG-context] Miktex-Context Installation

[NTG-context] Miktex-Context Installation

[David Arnold]

All,

I just installed Miktex 2.2 and got this error message when trying to build
Context format. Anyone else get this? What is the workaround?

Creating cont-en.efmt...
pdfetex.exe --ini --interaction=nonstopmode --halt-on-error --alias cont-en
*F:/miktex/tex/context/base/cont-en.tex \dump
! You have to increase POOLSIZE.
INITEXMF: pdfetex.exe failed on cont-en.tex

I checked miktex.ini and found:

;; Maximum number of characters in strings, including all
;; error messages and help texts, and the names of all fonts and
;; control sequences; must exceed string_vacancies by the total
;; length of TeX's own strings, which is currently about 23000.
pool_size=500000


Is this what I should increase? Or is there some other sinister thing that
needs taking care of?

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Re: [NTG-context] Miktex-Context Installation

[Giuseppe Bilotta]

Sunday, October 20, 2002 David Arnold wrote:

DA> Creating cont-en.efmt...
DA> pdfetex.exe --ini --interaction=nonstopmode --halt-on-error --alias cont-en
DA> *F:/miktex/tex/context/base/cont-en.tex \dump
DA> ! You have to increase POOLSIZE.
DA> INITEXMF: pdfetex.exe failed on cont-en.tex

DA> I checked miktex.ini and found:

DA> ;; Maximum number of characters in strings, including all
DA> ;; error messages and help texts, and the names of all fonts and
DA> ;; control sequences; must exceed string_vacancies by the total
DA> ;; length of TeX's own strings, which is currently about 23000.
DA> pool_size=500000

Two things to do:

find the [ConTeXt] section in your local miktex.ini and add

pool_size=1000000

(that's a 1 with 6 zeros); also, pdfetex should be called with
--alias=context, not --alias cont-en ... how are you generating
the format?

-- 
Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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