Problem with ConTeXt installation

Problem with ConTeXt installation

[Jeremy Johnson]

I'm having problems starting ConTeXt with texexec
on my Gentoo system.

I've installed ConTeXt using the MikTeX Package Manager:
"for p in `mpm --list|grep context | tr -s [:space:] | cut -d ' ' -f 4`; do 
mpm --install=$p; done" 
followed by a "texhash" and an "updmap" for good measure,
and I've upgraded to the latest tetex-3.0_p1-r3 in Gentoo's portage.


I've also followed the guide:
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Linux_Installation#Updating_Gentoo_Linux

and modified /etc/texmf/fmtutil.d/00fmtutil.cnf
by adding a '*' where indicated in the above referenced wiki.
followed by texmf-update.


BUT:
$ texexec --version

TeXExec 5.4.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005

texexec : TeXExec 5.4.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005
texutil : TeXUtil 9.0.1 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1992-2006
pdfetex: unrecognized option `--alias=context'
pdfetex: unrecognized option `--undump=cont-en'
kpathsea: Running mktexfmt context.fmt
fmtutil: no info for format `context'.
tex : unknown
context : ver: 2006.07.14 12:08
cont-en : unknown
pdfetex: unrecognized option `--alias=context'
pdfetex: unrecognized option `--undump=cont-nl'
kpathsea: Running mktexfmt context.fmt
fmtutil: no info for format `context'.
cont-nl : unknown

total run time : 5 seconds

warning : use 'texmfstart texexec' instead

And if I try to process some contex file:
$ cat >test.tex <<EOF
> \starttext
> Hello World
> \stopttext
> EOF
$ texexec test.tex

TeXExec 5.4.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005

fixing texformat path : .:
{!!/home/jeremy/.texmf-config,!!/home/jeremy/.texmf-var,/home/jeremy/texmf,!!/var/lib/texmf,!!/var/lib/texmf,!!/var/lib/texmf,!!/usr/local/share/texmf,!!/usr/share/texmf-site,!!/usr/share/texmf}/web2c/{$engine,}
fixing engine variable : pdfetex
executable : pdfetex
format : cont-en
inputfile : test
output : standard
interface : en
current mode : none
TeX run : 1

pdfetex: unrecognized option `--alias=context'
pdfetex: unrecognized option `--undump=cont-en'
This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.30.5-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.5)
(/usr/local/share/texmf/web2c/natural.tcx)
kpathsea: Running mktexfmt context.fmt
fmtutil: no info for format `context'.
I can't find the format file `context.fmt'!

return code : 256
run time : 1 seconds

total run time : 2 seconds

warning : use 'texmfstart texexec' instead

Re: Problem with ConTeXt installation

[John R. Culleton]

On Friday 29 September 2006 09:45, Jeremy Johnson wrote:
> I'm having problems starting ConTeXt with texexec
> on my Gentoo system.
>
> I've installed ConTeXt using the MikTeX Package Manager:

Miktex is for Windows, not Linux. Try another distro, such as TeX
Live or the the minimal distro at the Context site,
www.pragma-ade.nl
-- 
John Culleton
Able Indexing and Typesetting
Precision typesetting (tm) at reasonable cost.
Satisfaction guaranteed. 
http://wexfordpress.com

Re: Problem with ConTeXt installation

[Steve Peter]

On Sep 29, 2006, at 1:35 PM, John R. Culleton wrote:

> On Friday 29 September 2006 09:45, Jeremy Johnson wrote:
>> I'm having problems starting ConTeXt with texexec
>> on my Gentoo system.
>>
>> I've installed ConTeXt using the MikTeX Package Manager:
>
> Miktex is for Windows, not Linux.

There is now a MikTeX package manager for Linux.

Steve

Re: Problem with ConTeXt installation

[Taco Hoekwater]

Steve Peter wrote:
> On Sep 29, 2006, at 1:35 PM, John R. Culleton wrote:
> 
> 
>>On Friday 29 September 2006 09:45, Jeremy Johnson wrote:
>>
>>>I'm having problems starting ConTeXt with texexec
>>>on my Gentoo system.
>>>
>>>I've installed ConTeXt using the MikTeX Package Manager:
>>
>>Miktex is for Windows, not Linux.
> 
> 
> There is now a MikTeX package manager for Linux.

And it is best not to use it since it ships a context that
believes it is running on windows...

Taco

Re: Problem with ConTeXt installation

[Jeremy Johnson]

> And it is best not to use it since it ships a context that
> believes it is running on windows...
>
> Taco

OK,

I've uninstalled context: "mpm --uninstall=context"
as well as all other context packages installed through mpm:
for `f in mpm --list|grep context|grep ^i|tr -s [:space:]|cut -d ' ' -f 4`; \
do mpm --uninstall=${f}; done

Then I've downloaded
http://www.pragma-ade.nl/context/current/cont-tmf.zip

and followed the instructions in:
http://www.pragma-ade.nl/general/manuals/minstall.pdf

<edit and activate context formats>
# slocate fmtutil.cnf
/etc/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf
/etc/texmf/fmtutil.d/00fmtutil.cnf
#texexec --make

<Regenerate formats>
#cd /usr/local/share/texmf
#unzip ~/DOWNLOADS/cont-tmf.zip
#texexec --make en de nl
#texexec --make metafun

I've also update /etc/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf:
openaout_any = a
shell_escape = t
allow_multiple_suffixes = f
MPXCOMMAND=texexec --mptex

But I now get following error when I run:

$texexec new.tex

 TeXExec 5.4.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005

fixing engine variable : pdfetex
            executable : pdfetex
                format : cont-en
             inputfile : new
                output : standard
             interface : en
          current mode : none
               TeX run : 1

This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.30.5-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.5)
 \write18 enabled.
 (/usr/local/share/texmf/web2c/natural.tcx)
entering extended mode
(./new.tex

ConTeXt  ver: 2006.07.14 12:08  fmt: 2006.9.29  int: english  mes: english

language        : language en is active
<protectionstate 0>
system          : cont-new loaded
(/usr/local/share/texmf/tex/context/base/cont-new.tex

FatalError      : Your format does not match the base files!

FormatVersion   : 2006.07.14 12:08
FilesVersion    : 2006.09.28 22:43


           return code : 0
              run time : 1 seconds
  sorting and checking : running texutil

 TeXUtil 9.0.1 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1992-2006

                action : processing commands, lists and registers
                option : sorting IJ under Y
                option : converting high ASCII values
                 error : empty input file new

                remark : 'texutil' is now part of 'texexec'
               warning : use 'texmfstart texutil' instead

        total run time : 1 seconds

               warning : use 'texmfstart texexec' instead
jeremy@axp:~/Desktop/Test$ texexec new.tex

 TeXExec 5.4.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005

fixing engine variable : pdfetex
            executable : pdfetex
                format : cont-en
             inputfile : new
                output : standard
             interface : en
          current mode : none
               TeX run : 1

This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.30.5-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.5)
 \write18 enabled.
 (/usr/local/share/texmf/web2c/natural.tcx)
entering extended mode
(./new.tex

ConTeXt  ver: 2006.07.14 12:08  fmt: 2006.9.29  int: english  mes: english

language        : language en is active
<protectionstate 0>
system          : cont-new loaded
(/usr/local/share/texmf/tex/context/base/cont-new.tex

FatalError      : Your format does not match the base files!

FormatVersion   : 2006.07.14 12:08
FilesVersion    : 2006.09.28 22:43


           return code : 0
              run time : 1 seconds
  sorting and checking : running texutil

 TeXUtil 9.0.1 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1992-2006

                action : processing commands, lists and registers
                option : sorting IJ under Y
                option : converting high ASCII values
                 error : empty input file new

                remark : 'texutil' is now part of 'texexec'
               warning : use 'texmfstart texutil' instead

        total run time : 1 seconds

               warning : use 'texmfstart texexec' instead

_____________________________

What does this Fatal error message mean?

FatalError      : Your format does not match the base files!
FormatVersion   : 2006.07.14 12:08
FilesVersion    : 2006.09.28 22:43

Re: Problem with ConTeXt installation

[Taco Hoekwater]

Hi,

Looks like your update went fine excep that you have an old format
file still on your disk:

> 
> FatalError      : Your format does not match the base files!

Context source version used to generate cont-en.fmt:

> FormatVersion   : 2006.07.14 12:08

Current (runtime) source version:

> FilesVersion    : 2006.09.28 22:43

Search the stale cont-en.fmt and delete it.

Greetings, Taco

Re: Problem with ConTeXt installation

[Sanjoy Mahajan]

> Search for the stale cont-en.fmt and delete it.

Right -- most likely produced by fmtutil before you commented out the
automatic regeneration of context formats.  Same problem happens with
other Unix installations, e.g. I got bit a few times on Debian and
Ubuntu.  Here's one way to find the cont-en.fmt that you are using:

  $ kpsewhich -engine=pdfetex cont-en.fmt
  /home/sanjoy/.texmf-var/web2c/pdfetex/cont-en.fmt

(when pdfetex finishes turning into pdftex, as in the latest pdftex
releases, the engine line should I guess change to pdftex)

Then you can look at it's date and make sure it's the one you just
generated.

kpsewhere does a more general tex path search, which looks in each
TEXMF tree (kpsewhich tells you only the first one it finds):

  $ kpsewhere -engine=pdfetex cont-en.fmt
  /home/sanjoy/.texmf-var/web2c/pdfetex/cont-en.fmt

-Sanjoy

`Never underestimate the evil of which men of power are capable.'
         --Bertrand Russell, _War Crimes in Vietnam_, chapter 1.

Re: Problem with ConTeXt installation

[Jeremy Johnson]

On Saturday 30 September 2006 09:55, Sanjoy Mahajan wrote:
> > Search for the stale cont-en.fmt and delete it.
>
> Right -- most likely produced by fmtutil before you commented out the
> automatic regeneration of context formats.  Same problem happens with
> other Unix installations, e.g. I got bit a few times on Debian and
> Ubuntu.  Here's one way to find the cont-en.fmt that you are using:
>
>   $ kpsewhich -engine=pdfetex cont-en.fmt
>   /home/sanjoy/.texmf-var/web2c/pdfetex/cont-en.fmt
>
> (when pdfetex finishes turning into pdftex, as in the latest pdftex
> releases, the engine line should I guess change to pdftex)
>
> Then you can look at it's date and make sure it's the one you just
> generated.
>
> kpsewhere does a more general tex path search, which looks in each
> TEXMF tree (kpsewhich tells you only the first one it finds):
>
>   $ kpsewhere -engine=pdfetex cont-en.fmt
>   /home/sanjoy/.texmf-var/web2c/pdfetex/cont-en.fmt
>
> -Sanjoy
>
> `Never underestimate the evil of which men of power are capable.'
>          --Bertrand Russell, _War Crimes in Vietnam_, chapter 1.


OK, I regenerated "texexec --make en de nl; texexec --make metafun"
and checked to see what was created:
# for f in `kpsewhere -engine=pdfetex cont-en.fmt`; do ls -l ${f}; done
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6642152 Sep 30 
16:04 /root/.texmf-var/web2c/pdfetex/cont-en.fmt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6562550 Sep 29 15:21 /var/lib/texmf/web2c/cont-en.fmt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6562550 Sep 29 15:21 /var/lib/texmf/web2c/cont-en.fmt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6562550 Sep 29 15:21 /var/lib/texmf/web2c/cont-en.fmt


So, today (Sept 30) /root/.texmf-var/web2c/pdfetex/cont-en.fmt was created.
So I simply copied /root/.texmf-var/web2c/pdfetex/*     /var/lib/texmf/web2c/

"texexec new.tex" seems to run OK now, without error.
I'll investigate further.

THANKS.

Re: Problem with ConTeXt installation

[Sanjoy Mahajan]

> So I simply copied /root/.texmf-var/web2c/pdfetex/*     /var/lib/texmf/web2c/
> "texexec new.tex" seems to run OK now, without error.
> I'll investigate further.

You run texexec as root, I'm guessing, so that the formats will be
visible to all users.  However, that means they go into root's
.texmf-var/ directory because the TEXFORMATS kpse variable contains
the home-directory .texmf-var before /var/lib/texmf.  Here's how to
check:

$ kpsewhich --expand-path='$TEXFORMATS'
.:/home/sanjoy/.texmf-var/web2c:/home/sanjoy/texmf/web2c:/var/lib/texmf/web2c:/usr/local/share/texmf/web2c:/usr/share/texmf/web2c:/usr/share/texmf-tetex/web2c

Yup, ~/.texmf-var/web2c comes first.

That's due to these lines in /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf, at least on my
Ubuntu (teTeX 3.0) system:

TEXMF = {$TEXMFCONFIG,$TEXMFVAR,$TEXMFHOME,$TEXMFSYSCONFIG,!!$TEXMFSYSVAR,!!$TEXMFLOCAL,!!$TEXMFMAIN,!!$TEXMFDIST}

TEXFORMATS = .;$TEXMF/web2c/{$engine,}

The TEXMFVAR is short for $HOME/.texmf-var and is what means the
formats go in /root/.texmf-var/.  So, you need to change TEXFORMATS
for the texexec run, telling it to place them in /var/lib/texmf:

# TEXFORMATS='/var/lib/texmf/web2c/{$engine,}' texexec --make --all

Or slightly more general, in case TEXMFSYSVAR changes someday from
/var/lib/texmf (note all the horrid quoting):

# TEXFORMATS=`kpsewhich --expand-path='$TEXMFSYSVAR'`'/web2c/{$engine,}' \
  texexec --make --all

I just tried it as root, and it seemed to work -- I got brand-new
formats in /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdfetex:

# ls /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdfetex/*.fmt
/var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdfetex/cont-nl.fmt
/var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdfetex/mptopdf.fmt
/var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdfetex/cont-en.fmt

> # for f in `kpsewhere -engine=pdfetex cont-en.fmt`; do ls -l ${f}; done

Or slightly simpler (using -U to preserve the order produced by
kpsewhere):

# ls -lU `kpsewhere -engine=pdfetex cont-en.fmt`

or

# kpsewhere -engine=pdfetex cont-en.fmt | xargs ls -Ul

-Sanjoy

`Never underestimate the evil of which men of power are capable.'
         --Bertrand Russell, _War Crimes in Vietnam_, chapter 1.

Re: Problem with ConTeXt installation

[Mojca Miklavec]

On 9/29/06, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
> Steve Peter wrote:
> > There is now a MikTeX package manager for Linux.
>
> And it is best not to use it since it ships a context that
> believes it is running on windows...

But then it has to be fixed, not thrown away ... I bet that the main
reason is one of the many "if (MikTeX)" switches in the source code
assuming that MikTeX is running on windows. Are there any MikTeX/Lunux
users around? (I work on windows 99% of time, but if I manage to
install MikTeX on the linux partition, I'll give it a try.)

The other thing is: I have no idea how the executables are created. I
sent quite a few requests, so that now finally the ruby scripts are
used instead of the old perl-based ones. But I don't have the
slightest idea how they work under Linux.

Mojca

Newbie question: Different PDF-output with pdftex versus tex - ghostscript

[Robert Kroon]

Hi,

I've installed Tex and Context on my Mac through II-installer and  
started to experiment with simple Context files. I'm using Texshop  
v2.09 as text editor. When I generate output with the pdftex default  
script I get a pdf-file with poor letter quality (thick p's and t's  
and j's). Also the combination of the characters ij are shown as ..  
in the pdf-file. When I switch to the default Texshopscript "tex +  
ghostscipt" I'll get a dvi-file. Double-clicking on this file  
generates a PDF-file with high quality characters and the ij characters.
Apparently there is something wrong in my setup.
Any ideas?

Many thanks in advance,

Robert Kroon 

Re: Newbie question: Different PDF-output with pdftex versus tex - ghostscript

[Martin Schröder]

2006/10/1, Robert Kroon <robert@kroontevelde.demon.nl>:
> v2.09 as text editor. When I generate output with the pdftex default
> script I get a pdf-file with poor letter quality (thick p's and t's
> and j's). Also the combination of the characters ij are shown as ..
> in the pdf-file. When I switch to the default Texshopscript "tex +
> ghostscipt" I'll get a dvi-file. Double-clicking on this file
> generates a PDF-file with high quality characters and the ij characters.
> Apparently there is something wrong in my setup.

Does this help?

http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=fuzzy-type3
http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=fuzzy-T1

Best
   Martin

Re: Problem with ConTeXt installation

[gnwiii]

On 10/1/06, Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 9/29/06, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
> > Steve Peter wrote:
> > > There is now a MikTeX package manager for Linux.
> >
> > And it is best not to use it since it ships a context that
> > believes it is running on windows...

ConTeXt should adjust to the differences (see ruby/tex.rb), but
someone may need to
search out the bugs and report them.

> But then it has to be fixed, not thrown away ... I bet that the main
> reason is one of the many "if (MikTeX)" switches in the source code
> assuming that MikTeX is running on windows. Are there any MikTeX/Lunux
> users around? (I work on windows 99% of time, but if I manage to
> install MikTeX on the linux partition, I'll give it a try.)
>
> The other thing is: I have no idea how the executables are created. I
> sent quite a few requests, so that now finally the ruby scripts are
> used instead of the old perl-based ones. But I don't have the
> slightest idea how they work under Linux.

I have ConTeXt under MikTeX and also on Fedora Core 5 both using the
Aug. 8 release from a separate texmf-cont tree, so I didn't install
the MikTeX version at all (I did steal
texmfstart.exe from W32tex).

There were some problems in the MikTeX-2.5 betas due to different
command-line switches in linux (and W32TeX) versions of pdftex, but I
thought that had been fixed in the
final version.  There are some system specific flags set in
base/tex.rb to deal with any lingering differences, so if there are
problems I'd compare the options for pdftex and see if they are
reflected in tex.rb.

-- 
George N. White III <aa056@chebucto.ns.ca>
Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia