On Thu, Sep 02, 1999 at 09:41:47AM +0200, Hans Hagen thoughtfully expounded:

> This is strange but has nothing to do with context. One possible reason
> is that in texmf.cnf, in the context input path, the etex path is not
> included. (This has been reported before.)
> 

Thanks, this worked fine (I think!)  See my later comments on lots of
'skipping' messages.

>  
> > I am very much a pdftex newbie, let alone new to Context, but any help would be
> > appreciated.
> 
> Well, if you can generate formats and understand these problems, you are
> already near to a guru in the tex world.
>

Thank you for the compliment (blush) but far from it.

Now that I got the efmt built I tried to run my sample comtext doc again and ran into problems:

document is:
---------

\starttext 

\useenvironment[green] % the so called 'green' presentation

\Topics{How about this} 

\Topic{Number One} 

\startitemize
\item Help
\item This 
\item Is
\item Complicated
\stopitemize

\Topic{Number Two}

Or maybe not that complicated at all. 

\stoptext 
--------- 

when I run this with 'texexec --pdf present' I get:
-----------------------------

 TeXExec 1.2 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-1999

            executable : pdfetex
                format : cont-en
             inputfile : present
                output : pdftex
             interface : en
          current mode : all
               TeX run : 1

This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-13d-2.1 (Web2C 7.3.1)
entering extended mode
(present.tex[/usr/share/texmf/pdftex/config/pdftex.cfg]

ConTeXt ver: 1999.5.11 fmt: 1999.9.1 int: english mes: english

system         : cont-new loaded
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/cont-new.tex
systems        : BEWARE: SOMETHING NEW INSERTED!
)
system         : cont-old loaded
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/cont-old.tex
loading        : Context Old Macros
)
system         : cont-fil loaded
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/cont-fil.tex
loading        : Context File Synonyms
)
bodyfont       : 12pt rm is loaded
specials       : tex,postscript,rokicki loaded
system         : cont-opt loaded
(cont-opt.tex
specials       : tex,postscript,rokicki is reset
specials       : loading definition file tpd
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/spec-tpd.tex <unprotect 2>
specials       : loading definition file fdf
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/spec-fdf.tex <unprotect 3> <unprotect 4>
<protect 4> <protect 3>)
specials       : fdf loaded
<unprotect 3> <protect 3> <protect 2>)
specials       : fdf,tpd loaded
) (./present.tuo) (./present.tuo) (./present.tuo) (./present.tuo)
(./present.tuo) (./present.tuo) (./present.tuo) (./present.tuo) (./present.tuo)
systems        : begin file present at line 1
! Undefined control sequence.
l.3 \useenvironment
                   [green] % the so called 'green' presentation
? 

-----------------------------
so it looks as if it does not understand the \useenvironment command.

This may be because I am using context that shipped with teTeX 1.0.1 rpm.  I
tried downloading the newest cont-tmf.zip and loading that over the existing
context portion of /usr/share/texmf/context, but that broke because it was
expecting a newer version of pdftex, which I have not figured out how to update
within my current teTeX install without breaking it!  Reloaded my tetex RPM's
and got started again!

I _did_ notice a lot of 'skipping' messages when I built my cont-en.efmt, but
did not know if these were normal or not.  I have attached a log of the efmt
creation to this mail.

I included all the output from my test so people could see the versions of
pdftex and context I am using.

-- 
Tom Porter                                       txporter@mindspring.com
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"On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 
'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will 
the right answers come out?'  I am not able rightly to apprehend the 
kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."