From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/52432 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John Culleton Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Context-minimal installation problem. Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 14:04:16 -0400 Organization: WexfordPress Message-ID: <200908181404.16791.john@wexfordpress.com> References: <200908181215.03276.john@wexfordpress.com> <0BC42038-B611-4DAC-B70E-BFF199F9A21E@uni-bonn.de> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1250618217 9581 80.91.229.12 (18 Aug 2009 17:56:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 17:56:57 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Tue Aug 18 19:56:50 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MdSvQ-0003Mp-Gh for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Aug 2009 19:56:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13C95C9AE6; Tue, 18 Aug 2009 19:56:46 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id wv+Kz2fon1l6; Tue, 18 Aug 2009 19:56:41 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96243C9A70; Tue, 18 Aug 2009 19:56:41 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78C50C9A70 for ; Tue, 18 Aug 2009 19:56:39 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id ALBWIPH+TACO for ; Tue, 18 Aug 2009 19:56:24 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from QMTA09.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net (qmta09.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net [76.96.62.96]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46B9CC9A47 for ; Tue, 18 Aug 2009 19:56:24 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from OMTA24.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.62.76]) by QMTA09.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id VqsL1c0011ei1Bg59twQRQ; Tue, 18 Aug 2009 17:56:24 +0000 Original-Received: from [192.168.1.105] ([68.50.233.152]) by OMTA24.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id Vtzz1c0043HwwZ83ktzzQ1; Tue, 18 Aug 2009 17:59:59 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 In-Reply-To: <0BC42038-B611-4DAC-B70E-BFF199F9A21E@uni-bonn.de> Content-Disposition: inline X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:52432 Archived-At: On Tuesday 18 August 2009 01:48:09 pm Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: > On Aug 18, 2009, at 6:15 PM, John Culleton wrote: > > Tried to install context minimals including the steps > > mktexlsr > > texexec --make --all > > No errors at this point. But when I tried to run pdftex > > I get the error message > > I can't find the format file `pdftex.fmt!' > > > > That file is not anywhere in my personal directory. It is > > however in my bigger texlive 2008 installation. > > The set command shows: > > TEXMFCACHE=/home/safer/context/tex/texmf-cache > > TEXMFOS=/home/safer/context/tex/texmf-linux > > TEXROOT=/home/safer/context/tex > > so that part is OK. > > > > Any hints? > > You are using ConTeXt minimals. You are using texexec to generate > the ConTeXt formats (cont-en.fmt etc.). Why would you expect a > format file for pure pdftex to be produced? > > Thomas > _________________________________________________________________ >__________________ If your question is of interest to others as > well, please add an entry to the Wiki! > > maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / > http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : > http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : > https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : > http://contextgarden.net > _________________________________________________________________ >__________________ OK, so I can't use Context-minimals and still use pdftex. I discovered years ago that many plain pdftex files would work with texexec because Context is really an elaborate set of macros depending on pdftex. I'll try texexec on my pdftex oriented file and see if it works. I do most of my work in plain pdftex. -- John Culleton Create Book Covers with Scribus/e-book $5.95 http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________