Re: typesetting documentation

[Hans van der Meer <hansm@science.uva.nl>]

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I looked up what Aditya said can be found in the wiki and did:

	texmfstart texexec --module kpse:mult-ini.tex

I get the following output on my console:
108 ~/Temp/tex: texmfstart texexec --module kpse:mult-ini.tex
/usr/local/texlive/texmf-context/scripts/context/ruby/ctxtools.rb: 
641:in `initialize': Permission denied - /usr/local/texlive/texmf- 
context/tex/context/base/mult-ini.ted (Errno::EACCES)
	from /usr/local/texlive/texmf-context/scripts/context/ruby/ 
ctxtools.rb:641:in `open'
	from /usr/local/texlive/texmf-context/scripts/context/ruby/ 
ctxtools.rb:641:in `documentation'
	from /usr/local/texlive/texmf-context/scripts/context/ruby/ 
ctxtools.rb:629:in `each'
	from /usr/local/texlive/texmf-context/scripts/context/ruby/ 
ctxtools.rb:629:in `documentation'
	from /usr/local/texlive/texmf-context/scripts/context/ruby/ 
ctxtools.rb:2778:in `send'
	from /usr/local/texlive/texmf-context/scripts/context/ruby/ 
ctxtools.rb:2778

The permissions of the directory involved can be seen from:
	ls -l /usr/local/texlive/texmf-context/tex/context
==>
	drwxr-xr-x 767 sysop staff 26078 11 mrt 18:31 base

That is, texexec tries to write into a directory for which has no  
write access. I operate normally as myself and only for the  
installation of software assume the role of system operator (to hinder  
rogue programs and protect myself from stupid deletes, for example).

Do I understand correctly from this, that unless one has write access  
to the tex installation directories one cannot typeset the module  
source?
If so, I urge Hans Hagen to change this and let texexec and friends  
write into tmp directories or in the users current directory.
But I might be wrong and having something other amiss.


Hans van der Meer




On 24 mrt 2008, at 15:42, Aditya Mahajan wrote:

> On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Hans van der Meer wrote:
>
>> I kept this answer to my question in 2002 on typesetting the
>> documentation:
>>
>>> these files are now in theregular distribution, so
>>>
>>> texexec --modu --pdf somedoc.tex
>>>
>>> should work
>>>
>>> Hans [Hagen]
>>
>>
>> Trying it today (through texmfstart or directly texexec) I get:
>> 	No pages of output.
>>
>> Searching for "typeset documentation" in the ConTeXtWiki gives no  
>> clues.
>> The texexec documentation there lists --module as the option to use:
>> so I am baffled.
>> How to typeset ConTeXt documentation today?
>
> Last I cecked, this method worked. This is also what the wiki says
>
> http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Official_ConTeXt_Documentation#ConTeXt_Sources
>
> Personally, these days I just download the files from Luigi's website
>
> http://www.logosrl.it/context/modules/current/
>
> Aditya
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