From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/9097 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Henning Hraban Ramm Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: New user's first successes and problems Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 20:39:41 +0200 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <200208292039.41073.angerweit@gmx.net> References: <200208290022.SAA20834@smtphub.abq.sc.philips.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035399453 658 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 18:57:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:57:33 +0000 (UTC) Original-To: "ConTeXt-ML" In-Reply-To: <200208290022.SAA20834@smtphub.abq.sc.philips.com> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:9097 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:9097 Am Donnerstag, 29. August 2002 02:22 schrieb Robert Lopez: > There is supposed to be a command which is "context" which I should be > able to use on this file as "context 105". But I have no such > executable. Who supposes that to be? There isn't. texexec is what you need. > This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-13d-2.1 (Web2C 7.3.1) Far too old! ConTeXt needs a recent pdf(e)TeX; at least >14 (13 means 0.13); actual is 1.0something. > %% \setupcolor{state=start} all \setup commands use [square brackets], not {curly}. > I am supposed to be able to process this and other files with a > command which is pdfetex. > Another syntax of that command is "pdfetex \&cont-en --progname=context > filename". May be right, but why do you want to twist your fingers, if texexec does everything for you? > ! Font \*12ptrmtf*=utmr8t at 12.0pt not loadable: \ > Metric (TFM) file not found. Did you look after utmr8t.tfm? (URW "Times Roman") Tip: Try fonts if other things run. Most beginners find that extremely complicated. > I put in place the emacs mode file, context.el. I don't use emacs, can't tell anything. > To see how much I can learn about ConTeXt, especially the feature > which made me most interested, but perhaps least documented, the > ability to make flow charts. There's a special doc about flowcharts (as with some other specials). Have a look at my or at Bill's ConTeXt help pages! You can find the link to Bill via the Pragma ("user links") or mine pages. Grüßlis vom Hraban! -- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ (german, some sources) http://www.ramm.ch/context/ (ConTeXt cookbook, a few tips) ---