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From: "George N. White III" <gnwiii@gmail.com>
To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Newbie Problem With ConTeXt/MacTeX-2008 Distribution
Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 13:42:31 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <22af238a0809270942v2f114626o4f35f669ca808761@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <371EA22E-1789-47E5-AA66-5DCEF3BF504D@gmail.com>

On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 12:51 PM, Stanley Hudson
<stanley.hudson.48@gmail.com> wrote:
> Trying out ConTeXt on a Macbook with the MacTeX -2008 Distribution.
> The following compiles on ConTeXt live at the Garden, but does not
> work locally.
>
> \usemodule[pre-05]
>
> \starttext
>  \TitlePage{A Sample Presentation}
>  \Topics{Informative Talk}
>  \Topic{First item}
> Some information goes here
> \Topic{Second Item}
> More information goes here
> \stoptext
>
> This is what I get:
>
> TeXExec | processing document '/Users/tom/Desktop/stuff/razzle/
> firstfile.tex'
> TeXExec | no ctx file found
> TeXExec | tex processing method: context
> TeXExec | TeX run 1
> TeXExec | writing option file firstfile.top
> TeXExec | using randomseed 1382
> TeXExec | tex engine: pdftex
> TeXExec | tex format: cont-en
> This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.1415926-1.40.9 (Web2C 7.5.7)
>  %&-line parsing enabled.
>  (/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf/web2c/natural.tcx)
> entering extended mode
> (/Users/tom/Desktop/stuff/razzle/firstfile.tex
>
> ConTeXt  ver: 2008.05.21 15:21 MKII  fmt: 2008.9.27  int: english/
> english
>
> [...]
> systems         : system commands are disabled
> [...]
> Topic           : - First item
> system          : Topic not found/processed
> [MP firstfile-mpgraph.3999]
> ! Missing number, treated as zero.
> <to be read again>
>                    \endcsname
> \@@amvbox ... -\pagebackgroundvoffset +\endcsname
>                                                   \c!topoffset \relax
> \box \...
> <argument> ...ght\c!left }\interactionmenu [right]
>                                                   \getvalue {\??am
> right\c!r...
>
> \firstofoneargument #1->#1
>
> \next2 #1,->\docommand {#1}
>                            \doprocesscommaitem
> \doprocesscommalist ...item \gobbleoneargument #1,
>                                                   ]\relax \global
> \advance \...
> ...
> l.8 \Topic{Second Item}
>
> ?
>
> Any suggestions on what is wrong?

I get the same error using TL2008 on linux, so it looks like a bug in
context.  All is not lost, however, as your file does work using MKiV
with the context minimal distro:

$ context t
[...]
MtxRun | run 2: luatex
--fmt="/Data/opt/tex/context/linuxtex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/e94a94633d1c5da1888b5ba67f423e84/formats/cont-en"
--lua="/Data/opt/tex/context/linuxtex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/e94a94633d1c5da1888b5ba67f423e84/formats/cont-en.lua"
"./t"
(t.tex

ConTeXt  ver: 2008.08.15 09:41 MKIV  fmt: 2008.9.27  int: english/english

[...]

mkiv lua stats : runtime                   - 8.756 seconds, 3
processed pages, 3 shipped pages, 0.343 pages/second
    -------------------------------------------------------------------------

So the solution lies somewhere between 2008.05 MkII and 2008.08 MkIV.
Simpler documents do work using 2008.05 MkII in TL2008, but if you are
starting out you may do better to focus on MkIV.

-- 
George N. White III <aa056@chebucto.ns.ca>
Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia
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  reply	other threads:[~2008-09-27 16:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-27 15:51 Stanley Hudson
2008-09-27 16:42 ` George N. White III [this message]
2008-09-27 22:10   ` Stanley Hudson
2008-09-28 20:17   ` Mojca Miklavec

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