Building format with TeX

Building format with TeX

[Behnam Tabatabai]

Hi!

I have problems in building format files using TeX or eTeX: With "texexec 
--make --tex=tex en" I get the following error:

....
loading        : Context Support Macros / PDF
) (d:\usr\local\texmf\tex\context\base\supp-pdf.tex
loading        : Context Support Macros / PDF
systems        : Why not use pdf(e)TeX binaries?
! Undefined control sequence.
l.87 \ifnum\pdftexversion
                         >13

Building the format file with "texexec --make --tex=pdftex en" works fine.

I'm using Miktex-1.20e with the latest release of Context 
(http://www.pragma-ade.com/pragma-ade/context/cont-tmf.zip)

Thanks in advance for any hints to solve the problem.

Regards,
Behnam

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Re: Building format with TeX

[Hans Hagen]

At 07:33 PM 9/14/00 CEST, Behnam Tabatabai wrote:

>--make --tex=tex en" I get the following error:
>
>....
>loading        : Context Support Macros / PDF

interesting: this first / PDF should be / EPS (typo) 

>loading        : Context Support Macros / PDF
>systems        : Why not use pdf(e)TeX binaries?
>! Undefined control sequence.
>l.87 \ifnum\pdftexversion
>                         >13
>
>Building the format file with "texexec --make --tex=pdftex en" works fine.

I strongly suggest you to use pdfetex, since that way you got quite some
goodies for free

>I'm using Miktex-1.20e with the latest release of Context 
>(http://www.pragma-ade.com/pragma-ade/context/cont-tmf.zip)
>
>Thanks in advance for any hints to solve the problem.

You may change this in supp-pdf.tex 

\ifx\pdftexversion\undefined
  \writestatus{\m!systems}{Why not use pdf(e)TeX binaries?}
  \protect\expandafter\endinput
\fi

\ifnum\pdftexversion>13 % \else removed 

...

\fi  % one \fi removed ! 

I'll fix it in the next version. BTW, you can set the preferred tex binary
in texexec.ini. 

Hans
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