interface language

interface language

[Siep Kroonenberg]

How is the following possible:

%======================================================
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159-0.12h (Web2C 7.2)
(Fatal format file error; I'm stymied)

 TeXExec 1.2 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-1999

               reading : /etc/muisbin/texexec.ini

               setting : 'TeXShell' to 'siepo' for 'all'
               setting : 'UsedInterfaces' to 'en' for 'all'
               setting : 'UserInterface' to 'en' for 'all'
               setting : 'TeXExecutable' to 'pdftex' for 'all'
               setting : 'TeXFormatPath' to '/dosd/texell/web2c/' for 'all'
               setting : 'UsedInterfaces' to 'en' for 'siepo'
               setting : 'UserInterface' to 'en' for 'siepo'

            executable : pdftex
                format : /dosd/texell/web2c/cont-nl
             inputfile : el10
                output : standard
             interface : nl
               options : verbose
          current mode : all
               TeX run : 1

              run time : 0
%======================================================

Siep Kroonenberg

Re: interface language

[Hans Hagen]

Siep Kroonenberg wrote:
> 
> How is the following possible:
> 
> %======================================================
> This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159-0.12h (Web2C 7.2)
> (Fatal format file error; I'm stymied)

Either you changed he memory settings (texmf file), or the pdftex binary
was updated, the pools file changed. Looks like a rather old pdftex
version. FMT files are not compatible (just compressed memory dumps). 

Hans

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Re: interface language

[Siep Kroonenberg]

Hans Hagen writes:
 > Siep Kroonenberg wrote:
 > > 
 > > How is the following possible:
 > > 
 > > %======================================================
 > > This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159-0.12h (Web2C 7.2)
 > > (Fatal format file error; I'm stymied)
 > 
 > Either you changed he memory settings (texmf file), or the pdftex binary
 > was updated, the pools file changed. Looks like a rather old pdftex
 > version. FMT files are not compatible (just compressed memory dumps). 
 > 
 > Hans

Apparently, I was not sufficiently clear. The fatal format error is
simply that the format file isn't there, and the unsolved problem is
that texexec looks for this particular format file at all rather than
for cont-en.fmt. texexec.ini specifies an english interface and I
didn't use command-line options to contradict that.

With the sample files this problem didn't occur, and I can run Context
manually just fine.

As to the date of pdftex: am I right in believing that old pdftex's
are ok for dvi? At the moment I am not yet seriously into direct pdf
generation, and I don't like piecemeal upgrading so I'ld rather wait
till later this year.

Here again the relevant output:

%======================================================
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159-0.12h (Web2C 7.2)
(Fatal format file error; I'm stymied)

 TeXExec 1.2 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-1999

               reading : /etc/muisbin/texexec.ini

               setting : 'TeXShell' to 'siepo' for 'all'
               setting : 'UsedInterfaces' to 'en' for 'all'
               setting : 'UserInterface' to 'en' for 'all'
               setting : 'TeXExecutable' to 'pdftex' for 'all'
               setting : 'TeXFormatPath' to '/dosd/texell/web2c/' for 'all'
               setting : 'UsedInterfaces' to 'en' for 'siepo'
               setting : 'UserInterface' to 'en' for 'siepo'

            executable : pdftex
                format : /dosd/texell/web2c/cont-nl
             inputfile : el10
                output : standard
             interface : nl
               options : verbose
          current mode : all
               TeX run : 1

              run time : 0
%======================================================

-- 
Siep Kroonenberg, TeX helpdesk
Siep.Kroonenberg@wkap.nl

Kluwer Academic Publishers
Prepress Department
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Re: interface language

[Hans Hagen]

Siep Kroonenberg wrote:

> Apparently, I was not sufficiently clear. The fatal format error is
> simply that the format file isn't there, and the unsolved problem is
> that texexec looks for this particular format file at all rather than
> for cont-en.fmt. texexec.ini specifies an english interface and I
> didn't use command-line options to contradict that.

See below

> As to the date of pdftex: am I right in believing that old pdftex's
> are ok for dvi? At the moment I am not yet seriously into direct pdf

Right, concerning dvi I think the only advantage of later version is
that pdftex does not load the map file when in dvi mode. Saves some
milliseconds. 

>              interface : nl

Ok, so the dutch interface is loaded. TeXexec tries to be clever and
parses the file first. It does not find an english clue. You can force
an interface in the file itself (btw also this seems to be a web2c
feature but I'm not sure about that). 

When you add the first line: 

% interface=en

to the tex file, you force texexec into using cont-en. Other directives
concern the program (tex,pdftex,..) and the format. Forget about those. 

Some day I will use this feature to sort out versions (like, running a 5
year old context format). 

Hans

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