Re: Newbie's questions

[Tobias Burnus <burnus@gmx.de>]

Hallo Johannes,

> - I must admit that I got interested in ConTeXt for the eye candy
>   of the presentations. So first of all: Is there a method to switch
>   to another font so I can use the presentation modules without having
>   to buy Lucida fonts? I have tried to use \switchtobodyfont[cmr,14.4pt]
>   yet the program seems to try and load Lucida first.
Try this:
\definefilesynonym [font-lbr] [font-cmr]
Best in your cont-sys.tex file. (See
$TEXMF/tex/context/base/cont-sys.rme)

> - When I run cont-en on my document, it will produce DVI but no PDF.
>   How do achieve PDF output?
If you use texexec, try `texexec --pdf foobar`
Else: Use \setupoutput[pdftex]
(see $TEXMF/tex/context/base/spec-ini.tex, bottom of that file)

> - The graphic elements, for some reason, are not created. ConTeXt tells
>   me on execution:
Can you give some more details (how do you invoke TeX, what is in your
TeX file).

> I mindlessly installed context from a SuSE rpm file within a teTeX tree.
Which SuSE or which teTeX version?
teTeX 1.0.x, x < 7 contains a ConTeXt with a small, but ugly \frac{}{}
bug, which is fixed in 1.0.7 (included in SuSE 6.4), so you may want to
update your ConTeXt version; current is 2000-03-29 (or 30?).

Regards from Berlin,

Tobias

PS: A fast (at least from the DFN) mirror is
http://dvi3.tiepmiep.dk/context/