From: John Culleton <john@wexfordpress.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Context-minimal installation problem.
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:29:18 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200908181529.18214.john@wexfordpress.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6faad9f00908181202p4431bccq3c6c21ef8373aa33@mail.gmail.com>
On Tuesday 18 August 2009 03:02:20 pm Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 20:04, John Culleton wrote:
> > On Tuesday 18 August 2009 01:48:09 pm Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
> >> 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?
> >
> > 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.
>
> pdftex should work just fine, but the format is not generated by
> default.
>
> You can use
> texexec --make plain
> but then you need to convince Hans to rename the format from
> plain.fmt to pdftex.fmt (or you need to rename it yourself), but
> unless you use some obscure packages (or fonts) then pdftex
> should work just fine. Maybe we would need to add some font map
> entries, but add you requests if you need them.
>
> Mojca
OK that works so far. Thanks!
The reason I don't just use texexec for everything is that Iike to
use eplain.tex and there is an obscure name conflict somewhere
between eplain.tex and context. Also I find font handling easier
in pdftex. Just a single statement is needed.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-18 19:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-18 16:15 John Culleton
2009-08-18 16:55 ` luigi scarso
2009-08-18 16:57 ` Hans van der Meer
2009-08-18 17:44 ` John Culleton
2009-08-18 17:48 ` Thomas A. Schmitz
2009-08-18 17:59 ` luigi scarso
2009-08-18 18:04 ` John Culleton
2009-08-18 18:11 ` Thomas A. Schmitz
2009-08-18 19:06 ` Mojca Miklavec
2009-08-18 19:02 ` Mojca Miklavec
2009-08-18 19:29 ` John Culleton [this message]
2009-08-18 19:30 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2009-08-18 20:09 ` John Culleton
2009-08-18 20:14 ` Wolfgang Schuster
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