From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/9123 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: Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:00:48 +0200 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <200209011900.49021.angerweit@gmx.net> References: <200208300051.SAA27434@abqb1k.abq.sc.philips.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035399475 802 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 18:57:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:57:55 +0000 (UTC) Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl In-Reply-To: <200208300051.SAA27434@abqb1k.abq.sc.philips.com> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:9123 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:9123 Am Freitag, 30. August 2002 02:51 schrieb Robert Lopez: > > > 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. > Oh? I am a bit confused how 0.13 or 1.0something newer than 3.14159... Near PI is the version of TeX; the rest is the version of pdfTeX! > > Did you look after utmr8t.tfm? (URW "Times Roman") > I do not understand. I have no file on my system with utmr8t in the name. > I checked that. I do have these files: > /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/fonts/afm/urw/times/utmr8a.afm > /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/fonts/afm/urw/times/utmri8a.afm > /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/fonts/type1/urw/times/utmr8a.pfb > /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/fonts/type1/urw/times/utmri8a.pfb Look after *.tfm files. These are the metrics TeX needs to typeset. > > Tip: Try fonts if other things run. Most beginners find that extremely > > complicated. > I do not understand what you mean by "Try fonts". I meant: First make sure everything other works right (MetaPost etc.), then care about fonts. (as others said, too) > Is this the mchart.pdf from http://www.pragma-ade.nl/ or do you refer > to an other? This is the page which attracted my interest in ConTeXt. It is. There's no other, AFAIK. Grüßlis vom Hraban! -- http://www.fiee.net http://www.ramm.ch ---