ConTeXt installation on Linux -- i despare

ConTeXt installation on Linux -- i despare

[Hraban]

Hello again!

I had these problems with some fonts (not only Palatino, even Lucida)
and couldn't create pdf...
I tried to fix "everything" by deleting all TeX packages, doing a
re-install of teTeX, deleting all ConTeXt files, re-installing the
latest cont-tmf.zip

To ensure that TeX can find all font files, I linked the font
directories of Ghostscript and all other (/usr/share/fonts) to the
appropriate section of texmf/fonts

Symbolic links to the perl scripts (texexec etc.) are created in
/usr/bin

I edited the following files
(after instructions of "how to install ConTeXt"):
fmtutil.cnf       (fmtutil --edit)
pdftex.cfg        (added context.map)
cont-usr.tex
cont-sys.tex      (copy of ~.rme)
texmf.cnf
texexec.ini       (copy of ~.rme)

While "texexec --make" only produced errors like
"texmf: format "config-de" not available"
I tried several commands mentioned by Ed Cashin in an old mail:

texhash (over and over...)
texconfig init
texconfig confall
texlinks
fmtutil --all
updmap

"texexec --make --alone" stops with an memory buffer overflow.

What shall I do?

(I'm proud to announce, that I can manage my mail on Linux now,
but that's the singular positive news...)

Groetjes!
Hraban.

Re: ConTeXt installation on Linux -- i despare

[Hans Hagen]

At 05:12 PM 6/7/2000 +0200, Hraban wrote:

>I edited the following files
>(after instructions of "how to install ConTeXt"):
> ... 

>While "texexec --make" only produced errors like
> "texmf: format "config-de" not available"

this is strange, since it looks like it wants to make a format called
config-de. There should be a tetex cont-en configure file somewhere
(although it's reported missing in some old tetex distribution).   

Maybe thomas knows what happens here. 

>I tried several commands mentioned by Ed Cashin in an old mail:
>
>texhash (over and over...)
>texconfig init
>texconfig confall
>texlinks
>fmtutil --all
>updmap
>
>"texexec --make --alone" stops with an memory buffer overflow.
>
>What shall I do?
>
>(I'm proud to announce, that I can manage my mail on Linux now,
>but that's the singular positive news...)

Then you're ahead of me, since I now only pass our internet access through
the server but mail ... still windows. 

Hans

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Re: ConTeXt installation on Linux -- i despare

[Hraban]

Hans Hagen wrote:

> >While "texexec --make" only produced errors like
> > "texmf: format "config-de" not available"
> 
> this is strange, since it looks like it wants to make a format called
> config-de. There should be a tetex cont-en configure file somewhere
> (although it's reported missing in some old tetex distribution).

Oh, sorry, I mistyped the most important thing.
It's "cont-de" naturally. Same with "cont-en", "cont-uk" and "cont-nl"

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> Then you're ahead of me, since I now only pass our internet access through
> the server but mail ... still windows.

I was lucky that Netscape uses almost the same file formats on MacOS and
Linux.

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Re: ConTeXt installation on Linux -- i despare

[Hans Hagen]

At 12:45 AM 6/9/2000 +0200, Hraban wrote:
>Hans Hagen wrote:
>
>> >While "texexec --make" only produced errors like
>> > "texmf: format "config-de" not available"

So if cont-de is missing, somewhere in the tex/context/config path there
should be a file cont-de.ini, containing: 

% Thomas Esser, 1998, 1999. public domain.
\input cont-de.tex
\endinput

Also in texconfig --edit you should remove the comment sign before the
cont-de entry. 

[since some texexec utilities, like pdf postprocessing, use the english
format and the documentation generator uses the dutch, I suggest you also
generate these] 

Hans 

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Back to normal. (was: install on linux/despare)

[Hraban]

Hans Hagen wrote:
> So if cont-de is missing, somewhere in the tex/context/config path there
> should be a file cont-de.ini, containing:

YEAH! THAT WAS IT! IT WORKS!
THANK YOU!
I LOVE YOU! ;-))  (no virus...)

I think, it's because I deleted all context directories to get a "clean"
system before installing a new ConTeXt.
Perhaps you should bundle these little files in the cont-tmf.zip?

> Also in texconfig --edit you should remove the comment sign before the
> cont-de entry.

That was the first I did, like mentioned in the install manual.

> [since some texexec utilities, like pdf postprocessing, use the english
> format and the documentation generator uses the dutch, I suggest you also
> generate these]

I always build all formats -- I use english macros mainly.
Is it possible to use english macros but german messages?

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Ok i built the formats and tried my little test file.
Back to normal: Problems with Palatino
(mktexmf can't find "Palatino-Roman")

In font-ppl "Serif" is mapped to "Palatino-Roman"
And in font-ber "Palatino-Roman" is mapped to "pplr8t".

Is it possible, that font-ber is not called? Must I \input it myself?

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Re: Back to normal. (was: install on linux/despare)

[Christopher G D Tipper]

> Is it possible, that font-ber is not called? Must I \input it myself?

You have to do something like the following at the beginning of your document

\setupbodyfont[ber,pos,ppl]

Christopher

Re: ConTeXt installation on Linux -- i despare

[Thomas Esser]

> > "texmf: format "config-de" not available"

That means that fmtutil could not find a line starting with config-de
in fmtutil.cnf.

To edit the fmtutil.cnf, just
  fmtutil --edit

Then,
  texexec --make

Thomas

Re: ConTeXt installation on Linux -- i despare

[Hraban]

Thomas Esser wrote:
> > > "texmf: format "config-de" not available"
> That means that fmtutil could not find a line starting with config-de
> in fmtutil.cnf.
> To edit the fmtutil.cnf, just
>   fmtutil --edit

Thanks, but I wrote, that I did do that.
The problem were missing "cont-xx.ini" files.
                                  °°°

Another question: My teTeX distribution is about one year old,
i looked at your homepage and couldn't find a newer one.
Some files utter they were "too old" while buidling formats.
Should I worry?

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