Re: Newbie's questions

["Johannes Hüsing" <tmi0m0@spo109.power.uni-essen.de>]

On Fri 2000-04-21 (12:47), Tobias Burnus wrote:
> Hallo Johannes,
> 
> > - I must admit that I got interested in ConTeXt for the eye candy
> >   of the presentations. So first of all: Is there a method to switch
> >   to another font so I can use the presentation modules without having
> >   to buy Lucida fonts? I have tried to use \switchtobodyfont[cmr,14.4pt]
> >   yet the program seems to try and load Lucida first.
> Try this:
> \definefilesynonym [font-lbr] [font-cmr]
> Best in your cont-sys.tex file. (See
> $TEXMF/tex/context/base/cont-sys.rme)

This file does not exist in $TEXMF here.

> 
> > - When I run cont-en on my document, it will produce DVI but no PDF.
> >   How do achieve PDF output?
> If you use texexec, try `texexec --pdf foobar`
> Else: Use \setupoutput[pdftex]
> (see $TEXMF/tex/context/base/spec-ini.tex, bottom of that file)
>

This works very well, thanks. 

> > - The graphic elements, for some reason, are not created. ConTeXt tells
> >   me on execution:
> Can you give some more details (how do you invoke TeX, what is in your
> TeX file).

I do use teTeX and texexec, so pdfetex is called. 

This is the source:

\setupoutput[pdftex]
\runMPgraphicstrue
\definefilesynonym[font-lbr][font-cmr]
\usemodule[pre-02]
\language[de]
\starttext

\Topic{Max und Moritz}

\Subject{Vorwort}
\starttyping
Ach, was muss man oft von bösen 
Kindern hören oder lesen!
Wie zum Beispiel hier von diesen,
welche Max und Moritz hießen, 
die, anstatt durch weise Lehren 
sich zum Guten zu bekehren
oftmals noch darüber lachten
und sich heimlich lustig machten.
\stoptyping
\Subject{Erster Streich}
\Subject{Zweiter Streich}
\Subject{Dritter Streich}

\Subject{Vierter Streich}
\starttyping
Also lautet der Beschluss,
dass der Mensch was lernen muss.
\stoptyping
\Subject{Fünfter Streich}
\starttyping
Wer in Dorfe oder Stadt
einen Onkel wohnen hat,
der sei höflich und bescheiden,
denn das mag der Onkel leiden.
\stoptyping
\Subject{Sechster Streich}
\Subject{Letzter Streich}
\Subject{Schluss}
\starttyping
Als man dies im Dorf erfuhr,
war von Trauer keine Spur.
Witwe Bolte, mild und weich,
sprach ``Sieh da, ich dacht' es gleich!''
\stoptyping

\stoptext

> 
> > I mindlessly installed context from a SuSE rpm file within a teTeX tree.
> Which SuSE or which teTeX version?

SuSE 6.3 Context source, TeTeX ChangeLog dates from 1998/09/26.

> teTeX 1.0.x, x < 7 contains a ConTeXt with a small, but ugly \frac{}{}
> bug, which is fixed in 1.0.7 (included in SuSE 6.4), so you may want to
> update your ConTeXt version; current is 2000-03-29 (or 30?).
> 

> 
> PS: A fast (at least from the DFN) mirror is
> http://dvi3.tiepmiep.dk/context/

Whoa! Quite fast indeed.

Thanks!

Johannes