* quiz [not found] <20031209110008.9614.2387.Mailman@ref.ntg.nl> @ 2003-12-09 15:43 ` olivier Turlier 2003-12-11 5:51 ` Update failure: I'm losing my mind Gary Pajer 0 siblings, 1 reply; 12+ messages in thread From: olivier Turlier @ 2003-12-09 15:43 UTC (permalink / raw) Hi ConteXers, Does somebody have done a quiz , like the ones found in "exerquiz " pdftex package (now bundled in "acrotex") from d.p. Story (info/exemples at http://melusine.eu.org/syracuse/acrotex/exemples/ (in french) or from the origin, in english at http://www.math.uakron.edu/~dpstory/acrotex.html) What interesting me a lot is the abilty for the reader to auto-evaluate himself. I wish to setup a whole course including theorical + exercises + auto evaluation, both (as possible) in screen and paper versions. Thanks for the tip. Olivier ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* Update failure: I'm losing my mind 2003-12-09 15:43 ` quiz olivier Turlier @ 2003-12-11 5:51 ` Gary Pajer 2003-12-11 9:47 ` Giuseppe Bilotta 0 siblings, 1 reply; 12+ messages in thread From: Gary Pajer @ 2003-12-11 5:51 UTC (permalink / raw) MiKTeX. I've done this half a dozen times. This time it doesn't work. I feel stupid. What have I forgotten? Things were working perfectly. I decide to update, so I download cont-tmf.zip to \localtexmf. Then I unzip, overwritting all the old files. Then I update the database either using mktexlsr or the MiKTeX options wizard. But now texexec can't find texexec.ini. But it's there, in \localtexmf\context\config (as well as \texmf\context\config) BTW, if I execute kpsewhich texexec.ini it returns without an error, but also with no information. Is that right? -gary ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* Re: Update failure: I'm losing my mind 2003-12-11 5:51 ` Update failure: I'm losing my mind Gary Pajer @ 2003-12-11 9:47 ` Giuseppe Bilotta 2003-12-11 14:08 ` Gary Pajer 0 siblings, 1 reply; 12+ messages in thread From: Giuseppe Bilotta @ 2003-12-11 9:47 UTC (permalink / raw) Thursday, December 11, 2003 Gary Pajer wrote: > MiKTeX. > I've done this half a dozen times. This time it doesn't work. I feel > stupid. What have I forgotten? > Things were working perfectly. I decide to update, so I download > cont-tmf.zip to \localtexmf. Then I unzip, overwritting all the old files. > Then I update the database either using mktexlsr or the MiKTeX options > wizard. > But now texexec can't find texexec.ini. But it's there, in > \localtexmf\context\config (as well as \texmf\context\config) > BTW, if I execute kpsewhich texexec.ini it returns without an error, but > also with no information. Is that right? Yes, and that's the problem. Recent ConTeXts are too strongly tied to fpTeX :\ One thing you can do: move your texexec.ini in the same folder as texexec.pl -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* Re: Update failure: I'm losing my mind 2003-12-11 9:47 ` Giuseppe Bilotta @ 2003-12-11 14:08 ` Gary Pajer 2003-12-11 15:02 ` Re[2]: " Giuseppe Bilotta 2003-12-11 17:27 ` Henning Hraban Ramm 0 siblings, 2 replies; 12+ messages in thread From: Gary Pajer @ 2003-12-11 14:08 UTC (permalink / raw) > Thursday, December 11, 2003 Gary Pajer wrote: > > > MiKTeX. > > > I've done this half a dozen times. This time it doesn't work. I feel > > stupid. What have I forgotten? > > > Things were working perfectly. I decide to update, so I download > > cont-tmf.zip to \localtexmf. Then I unzip, overwritting all the old files. > > Then I update the database either using mktexlsr or the MiKTeX options > > wizard. > > > But now texexec can't find texexec.ini. But it's there, in > > \localtexmf\context\config (as well as \texmf\context\config) > > > BTW, if I execute kpsewhich texexec.ini it returns without an error, but > > also with no information. Is that right? > > Yes, and that's the problem. Recent ConTeXts are too strongly > tied to fpTeX :\ > > One thing you can do: move your texexec.ini in the same folder > as texexec.pl Thanks, but that didn't work. I still have a nagging feeling that I'm forgetting something simple. MiKTeX comes with a texexec.exe. Putting texexec.ini in the same directory doesn't do it either. Is there an environment variable that I can set to help texexec find its way? Or a command line switch? (I have not found mention of either in the docs) (Putting texexec.ini in the directory containing the ConTeXt .tex script works.) -gary ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* Re[2]: Update failure: I'm losing my mind 2003-12-11 14:08 ` Gary Pajer @ 2003-12-11 15:02 ` Giuseppe Bilotta 2003-12-13 2:58 ` Gary Pajer 2003-12-11 17:27 ` Henning Hraban Ramm 1 sibling, 1 reply; 12+ messages in thread From: Giuseppe Bilotta @ 2003-12-11 15:02 UTC (permalink / raw) Thursday, December 11, 2003 Gary Pajer wrote: > Thanks, but that didn't work. I still have a nagging feeling that I'm > forgetting something simple. > MiKTeX comes with a texexec.exe. Putting texexec.ini in the same directory > doesn't do it either. First of all, don't use the ConTeXt package that comes with MikTeX. Simply don't. Remove it, if you have it uninstalled. You should only use the distributed cont-tmf.zip of PRAGMA, and use the Perl script texexec.pl in /localtexmf/context/perltk; and texexec.ini should stay there (and make sure you're running *that* texexec.pl) -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* Re: Re[2]: Update failure: I'm losing my mind 2003-12-11 15:02 ` Re[2]: " Giuseppe Bilotta @ 2003-12-13 2:58 ` Gary Pajer 2003-12-13 11:48 ` Re[4]: " Giuseppe Bilotta 0 siblings, 1 reply; 12+ messages in thread From: Gary Pajer @ 2003-12-13 2:58 UTC (permalink / raw) > Thursday, December 11, 2003 Gary Pajer wrote: > > > Thanks, but that didn't work. I still have a nagging feeling that I'm > > forgetting something simple. > > MiKTeX comes with a texexec.exe. Putting texexec.ini in the same directory > > doesn't do it either. > > First of all, don't use the ConTeXt package that comes with > MikTeX. Simply don't. Remove it, if you have it uninstalled. > You should only use the distributed cont-tmf.zip of PRAGMA, and > use the Perl script texexec.pl in /localtexmf/context/perltk; > and texexec.ini should stay there (and make sure you're running > *that* texexec.pl) > > -- > Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta Ok. I gronked MiKTeX's ConTeXt. I wrote a one line batch file that calls explicitly c:\localtexmf\context\perltk\texexec.pl This seems to work. Thanks! -gary ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* Re[4]: Update failure: I'm losing my mind 2003-12-13 2:58 ` Gary Pajer @ 2003-12-13 11:48 ` Giuseppe Bilotta 0 siblings, 0 replies; 12+ messages in thread From: Giuseppe Bilotta @ 2003-12-13 11:48 UTC (permalink / raw) Saturday, December 13, 2003 Gary Pajer wrote: > Ok. > I gronked MiKTeX's ConTeXt. I wrote a one line batch file that calls > explicitly c:\localtexmf\context\perltk\texexec.pl > This seems to work. Good to know :) If you have Windows NT or Windows 2000 or Windows XP, you can actually do without the batch file by adding .pl to the PATHEXT environment variable and ensuring that c:\localtexmf\context\perltk is in the PATH before c:\texmf\miktex\bin -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* Re: Update failure: I'm losing my mind 2003-12-11 14:08 ` Gary Pajer 2003-12-11 15:02 ` Re[2]: " Giuseppe Bilotta @ 2003-12-11 17:27 ` Henning Hraban Ramm 2003-12-11 20:50 ` Gary Pajer 1 sibling, 1 reply; 12+ messages in thread From: Henning Hraban Ramm @ 2003-12-11 17:27 UTC (permalink / raw) Am Donnerstag, 11.12.03, um 15:08 Uhr (Europe/Zurich) schrieb Gary Pajer: > MiKTeX comes with a texexec.exe. Putting texexec.ini in the same > directory > doesn't do it either. > Is there an environment variable that I can set to help texexec find > its > way? > Or a command line switch? (I have not found mention of either in the > docs) > (Putting texexec.ini in the directory containing the ConTeXt .tex > script > works.) What says "texexec --verbose"? Grüßlis vom Hraban! -- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* Re: Update failure: I'm losing my mind 2003-12-11 17:27 ` Henning Hraban Ramm @ 2003-12-11 20:50 ` Gary Pajer 2003-12-12 12:05 ` George N. White III 0 siblings, 1 reply; 12+ messages in thread From: Gary Pajer @ 2003-12-11 20:50 UTC (permalink / raw) Am Donnerstag, 11.12.03, um 15:08 Uhr (Europe/Zurich) schrieb Gary Pajer: >> MiKTeX comes with a texexec.exe. Putting texexec.ini in the same >> directory >> doesn't do it either. >> Is there an environment variable that I can set to help texexec find >> its >> way? >> Or a command line switch? (I have not found mention of either in the >> docs) >> (Putting texexec.ini in the directory containing the ConTeXt .tex >> script >> works.) >What says "texexec --verbose"? C:\Documents and Settings\Gary Pajer\My Documents>texexec --verbose TeXExec 3.2 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2003 current path : C:/Documents and Settings/Gary Pajer/My Documents locating ini file : not found by kpsewhich locating ini file : not found by searching locating ini file : no environment variable set locating ini file : not found in own path warning : texexec.ini not found, did you read 'texexec.rme'? It's really not finding it. The thing that surprises me is that no-one else has mentioned this. That's why I keep thinking that I've done something wrong. thanks, -gary ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* Re: Update failure: I'm losing my mind 2003-12-11 20:50 ` Gary Pajer @ 2003-12-12 12:05 ` George N. White III 2003-12-12 13:40 ` Gary Pajer 0 siblings, 1 reply; 12+ messages in thread From: George N. White III @ 2003-12-12 12:05 UTC (permalink / raw) On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, Gary Pajer wrote: > C:\Documents and Settings\Gary Pajer\My Documents>texexec --verbose > > TeXExec 3.2 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2003 > > current path : C:/Documents and Settings/Gary Pajer/My Documents > locating ini file : not found by kpsewhich > locating ini file : not found by searching > locating ini file : no environment variable set > locating ini file : not found in own path > warning : texexec.ini not found, did you read 'texexec.rme'? > > It's really not finding it. The thing that surprises me is that no-one else > has mentioned this. That's why I keep thinking that I've done something > wrong. Maybe trying to run ConTeXt with MikTeX instead of using TeX Live 2003, or trying to run ConTeXt in a Win32 configuration that puts spaces in the paths? We are running ConTeXt under TL2003 (with a newer cont-tmf.zip and pdftex 1.11b) on SGI Irix because the Win32 PC's I tried did not survive the experience. At home I find TL2003 (same updates) works well on linux. The unix systems don't let spaces into paths (and did fail in pre-release testing if I tried to run in a directory like "a b"). I reported the above problem with the TL2003 pre-release tests. Using the current cont-tmf.zip gets you a TeXExec 4.0 that seems more robust, but that could be because I also abandoned a configuration that puts spaces in the paths (e.g., install to C:\TeXLive and set HOME=C:\Home). One system (Win98) had problems with forward slashes in the argument to perl's backtick, but then the hard disk failed and I've been waiting since Sept. for the warranty replacement to arrive. TeX Live 2003 texexec seems to be hard on PC's -- maybe because when kpathsea fails texexec.pl recursively searches the drive for the ini file. In any case, after the 1st PC died I tried to install TL2003 on another machine which also failed (terminal overheating) while creating formats after installing the fpTeX updates. Maybe cheap PC clones can't tolerate ls-R too many times in a short time period. btw -- before the machine died I did notice that the new version of fpTeX has a 1.11b pdftex. I've been asked to put TL2003 on a ThinkPad running XP -- hope it survives the experience! -- George N. White III <aa056@chebucto.ns.ca> Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* Re: Update failure: I'm losing my mind 2003-12-12 12:05 ` George N. White III @ 2003-12-12 13:40 ` Gary Pajer 2003-12-12 14:11 ` Peter Rolf 0 siblings, 1 reply; 12+ messages in thread From: Gary Pajer @ 2003-12-12 13:40 UTC (permalink / raw) > > warning : texexec.ini not found, did you read 'texexec.rme'? > > > > It's really not finding it. The thing that surprises me is that no-one else > > has mentioned this. That's why I keep thinking that I've done something > > wrong. > > Maybe trying to run ConTeXt with MikTeX instead of using TeX Live 2003, > or trying to run ConTeXt in a Win32 configuration that puts spaces in > the paths? [longish comments deleted] Thanks for your comments, George. FWIW, I don't have any spaces in my MiKTeX directory tree, but I do use the default XP system for organizing document files, and that system does have a lot of spaces (e.g., "Documents and Settings") I'm not married to MiKTeX, so I can switch to fpTeX. Any comments? From what I can tell, fpTeX has better ConTeXt integration, while MiKTeX has a better system for keeping up to date. Anything else? -gary ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* Re: Update failure: I'm losing my mind 2003-12-12 13:40 ` Gary Pajer @ 2003-12-12 14:11 ` Peter Rolf 0 siblings, 0 replies; 12+ messages in thread From: Peter Rolf @ 2003-12-12 14:11 UTC (permalink / raw) Hello Gray, get a copy of filemon for your M$ Windows version from www.sysinterals.com. This free tool shows you all kind of file operations on your system. Just unpack and start filemon.exe and enter "texexec*" in the Include: part of the appearing filter dialog. Enable "Advanced Output" in the "options" menu. After that start "texexec --verbose" in your shell. The rest is on you... ;) Hope this helps, Peter Gary Pajer wrote: >>> warning : texexec.ini not found, did you read >>> >>> >'texexec.rme'? > > >>>It's really not finding it. The thing that surprises me is that no-one >>> >>> >else > > >>>has mentioned this. That's why I keep thinking that I've done something >>>wrong. >>> >>> >>Maybe trying to run ConTeXt with MikTeX instead of using TeX Live 2003, >>or trying to run ConTeXt in a Win32 configuration that puts spaces in >>the paths? >> >> > >[longish comments deleted] > >Thanks for your comments, George. >FWIW, I don't have any spaces in my MiKTeX directory tree, but I do use the >default XP system for organizing document files, and that system does have a >lot of spaces (e.g., "Documents and Settings") > >I'm not married to MiKTeX, so I can switch to fpTeX. Any comments? >>From what I can tell, fpTeX has better ConTeXt integration, while MiKTeX has >a better system for keeping up to date. >Anything else? > >-gary > >_______________________________________________ >ntg-context mailing list >ntg-context@ntg.nl >http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context > > > ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
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