Re: Simplest slides

["R. Bastian" <rbastian@free.fr>]

On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:31:49 -0400 (EDT)
Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu> scribit:

> On Mon, 19 Oct 2009, R. Bastian wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> >
> > I downloaded the files "generic*** etc" and tried to install (following
> > the 'simpleslides.pdf'); it seemed to succeed. But the compilation
> > 'texexec generic ...tex' failed.
> >
> > So I tried same tests:
> > ------------------------------------------
> > rene@KUBUNTU64:~/Context/Slides$ texexec generic-talk-15min-45min.tex
> > TeXExec | processing document 'generic-talk-15min-45min.tex'
> > TeXExec | no ctx file found
> > TeXExec | tex processing method: context
> > TeXExec | TeX run 1
> > TeXExec | writing option file generic-talk-15min-45min.top
> > TeXExec | using randomseed 822
> > TeXExec | tex engine: pdftex
> > TeXExec | tex format: cont-en
> > This is pdfTeX, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6)
> > \write18 enabled.
> > (/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-context/web2c/natural.tcx)
> > kpathsea: Running mktexfmt cont-en.fmt
> > tcfmgr: config file `tcfmgr.map' (usually in $TEXMFMAIN/texconfig) not found.
> > fmtutil: config file `fmtutil.cnf' not found.
> > I can't find the format file `cont-en.fmt'!
> > TeXExec | runtime: 0.040151
> > rene@KUBUNTU64:~/Context/Slides$ find . -name "cont-en.fmt"
> > rene@KUBUNTU64:~/Context/Slides$ find /usr/local/texlive/2007/ -name "cont-en.fmt"
> > /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/fc4b4b59a4904326c19d982f9a3c28fe/formats/cont-en.fmt
> > /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-linux-64/web2c/xetex/cont-en.fmt
> > rene@KUBUNTU64:~/Context/Slides$ find /usr/local/texlive/2007/ -name "tcfmgr.map"
> > /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf/texconfig/tcfmgr.map
> > rene@KUBUNTU64:~/Context/Slides$ find /usr/local/texlive/2007/ -name "fmtutil.cnf"
> > /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-var/web2c/fmtutil.cnf
> > /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf
> > rene@KUBUNTU64:~/Context/Slides$ sudo mktexlsr
> > mktexlsr: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXMFMAIN...
> > mktexlsr: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXLIVE...
> > mktexlsr: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R...
> > mktexlsr: Done.
> > -------------------------------------------------
> > Something is wrong ...
> >
> > Can you help me ?
> 
> You need to make the context format. Try
> 
> fmtutil-sys cont-en

rene@KUBUNTU64:~/Context$ fmtutil-sys cont-fr
fmtutil: fmtutil: unknown option `cont-fr'. Try fmtutil --help for help.

> 
> Or, since you already have the xetex and the luatex formats, you can use
> 
> context generic-talk*.tex
> 
> or
> 
> texexec --xetex generic-talk*.tex

rene@KUBUNTU64:~/Context$ texexec --xetex generic-talk*.tex
TeXExec | processing document 'generic-talk*.tex'
TeXExec | no ctx file found
TeXExec | nothing to process
TeXExec | runtime: 0.008959

I use mkII mnimals (from 2007, but installed 2009.05). I will
reinstall soon.

> 
> 
> Aditya
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