Re: Re: page backgrounds

["Adam Lindsay" <atl@comp.lancs.ac.uk>]

Thomas A. Schmitz said this at Mon, 17 Nov 2003 14:09:45 +0100:

>
>On Monday, November 17, 2003, at 10:59  AM, Patrick Gundlach wrote:
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>> make sure \protectbufferstrue is set in cont-sys.tex
>>
>Thanks, Patrick. \protectbufferstrue is uncommented (I guess that's the 
>default, isn't it?). Does the btex...etex work on your box? Could 
>anyone running Mac OS X (10.2 for the time being) verify if it works on 
>their systems?

After verifying configuration on my machines, it works.
The TeXLive2003 on MacOSX install (main computer) worked fine, without
anything extra.
I have a gwTeX install on a second computer, and it took a bit of work to
get it going:
enabled \write18 by changing shell_escape to 't' in texmf.cnf
Copied user/cont-sys.rme to user/cont-sys.tex.
Did a 'sudo texhash' to be sure changes are made.
Edited cont-sys.tex and uncommented the following lines:
\runMPgraphicstrue
\runMPTEXgraphicstrue
\useMETAFUNformattrue % make sure you have a format!

In short, I followed the suggestions in minstall.pdf!

After all that, I was able to run both the "copyright" and "draft"
examples without any problem.

The down-side is that it takes a bit of confidence at the command line to
find all these files. I have to wonder if it would help to ship and
configure gwTeX/ConTeXt with better defaults for the Mac...

Otared, I would suggest making the changes recommended in pages 8-9...
they unlock a lot of functionality that seems to be "hidden" in ConTeXt!

adam

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