Re: Problems recompiling LaTeX2ConTeXt.tex

[Jens-Uwe Morawski <morawski@gmx.net>]

On Wed, 5 Mar 2003 10:16:40 -0800 (PST)
"James J. Ramsey" <jjramsey_6x9eq42@yahoo.com> wrote:

> 
> --- Jens-Uwe Morawski <morawski@gmx.net> wrote:
> > On Tue, 4 Mar 2003 08:45:24 -0800 (PST)
> > "James J. Ramsey" <jjramsey_6x9eq42@yahoo.com>
> > wrote:
> > 
> > > I think I may
> > have
> > > smoked out some problems with my ConTeXt
> > installation
> > > in the process. I'm running Red Hat 8.0, with
> > > teTeX-1.0.7.
> > 
> > i would prefer an update at least to TEXLive7
> > and the current ConTeXt
> 
> Easier said than done on most Linux distros. teTeX is
> "standard equipment" on many of them, and often a
> dependency.

- install TeXLive in /opt/TeXlive/; don't let the installer
   create symbolic links for the binaries and don't install
   the ConTeXT from TEXLive
- install ConTeXT in /opt/ConTeXT/texmf/ (don't forget to
   build a ls-R database there) 

- create a directory /opt/ConTeXt/bin, go there and run
  for PL in `ls ../texmf/context/perltk/*.pl`; do ln -s $PL `basename $PL .pl`; done

- go to /opt/ConTeXt/texmf/context/perltk/ and check whether
  the *.pl files have mode 755 (rwxr-xr-x); if not run
  chmod 755 *.pl

- find texmf.cnf in /opt/TeXLive (usually at
   /opt/TeXLive/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf) make a copy (texmf.cnf.ori)
  and edit the texmf.cnf:

  (a) add: TEXMFCONTEXT=/opt/ConTeXt/texmf
  (b) change
     TEXMF={$HOMETEXMF,!!$VARTEXMF,$TEXMFLOCAL,!!$TEXMFMAIN}
      to
     TEXMF={$HOMETEXMF,$TEXMFCONTEXT,!!$VARTEXMF,$TEXMFLOCAL,!!$TEXMFMAIN}

- create a file /etc/profile.d/texlive.sh with following content
  
     PATH=/opt/ConTeXt/bin:/opt/TeXLive/bin/i386-linux:$PATH
     TEXMFCNF="/opt/TeXLive/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf"
     export TEXMFCNF

- re-login or refresh your profile (source /etc/profile in bash or bash --login),
    so that profile changes take effect. done. No need
    to uninstall the distro's teTeX. It will simply not used anymore.
 
> > 
> > > What is going on?
> > 
> > find the file cont-sys.tex and uncomment the lines
> >  \setupencoding [\s!default=ec]
> >  \usetypescript [berry] [\defaultencoding]
> 
> That didn't work. I get this complaint:
> 
> ! Undefined control sequence.
> <argument> \s
>               !default=ec

Hmm, it's working here. Maybe Hans knows...
You can try \setupencoding[default=ec], but i believe
the \s! has a meaning there so NO WARRANTY :) 

But easier, change
\usetypescript [berry] [\defaultencoding]
to
\usetypescript [berry] [ec]

> > if this still does not work since font utmr8r etc.
> > is
> > not found 
> 
> Yeah, I do not have that font. Oddly enough, I do have
> the files utmr8a.pfb and utmr8a.afm, but no utmr8r.

utmr8r is not a PostScript Type1 font, it's a TeX font.
So, look for utmr8r.tfm (raw TeX font) or for utmr8t.tfm
(T1 aka ec encoded TeX font).

 
> > then you should install an up-to-date TeX
> > distribution
> 
> As I said, easier said than done.

see above

Jens