Announcing a new script: TeXVersion

Announcing a new script: TeXVersion

[Taco Hoekwater]

Hi,

Sometimes I find it quite hard to discover what version of TeX + ConTeXt
I am actually running. As an aid in debugging problems, I have created a
Perl script that attempts to collect all relevant version information and prints 
it to the screen in an organized manner.

Running it will generate output like this:


        TeXVersion 0.1 / Taco Hoekwater 2004

               texexec : TeXExec 4.4 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2004
               texutil : TeXUtil 7.4 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1992-2002
                   tex : pdfeTeX, 3.14159-1.10b-2.1 (Web2C 7.4.5)
               context : ver: 2004.8.15
               cont-en : ver: 2003.1.31  fmt: 2004.6.19  mes: english

If you are interested, you can download the script from 

	http://tex.aanhet.net/context/scripts/

This functionality will eventually become part of texexec.

-- 
groeten,

Taco

Re: Announcing a new script: TeXVersion

[Maurice Diamantini]

Le 25 août 04, à 09:28, Taco Hoekwater a écrit :

> Running it will generate output like this:
>
>
>         TeXVersion 0.1 / Taco Hoekwater 2004
>
>                texexec : TeXExec 4.4 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2004
>                texutil : TeXUtil 7.4 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1992-2002
>                    tex : pdfeTeX, 3.14159-1.10b-2.1 (Web2C 7.4.5)
>                context : ver: 2004.8.15
>                cont-en : ver: 2003.1.31  fmt: 2004.6.19  mes: english
> ...
> This functionality will eventually become part of texexec.
>

Great script! thanks you Taco,

Just a suggestion:
options for:
    - putting the full path of the executables,
    - some other informations for finding frequently source of problems
      (metapost not operationnal...)

Thanks again,

-- Maurice Diamantini

Re: Announcing a new script: TeXVersion

[Hans Hagen]

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Maurice Diamantini wrote:

>
> Le 25 août 04, à 09:28, Taco Hoekwater a écrit :
>
>> Running it will generate output like this:
>>
>>
>>         TeXVersion 0.1 / Taco Hoekwater 2004
>>
>>                texexec : TeXExec 4.4 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2004
>>                texutil : TeXUtil 7.4 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1992-2002
>>                    tex : pdfeTeX, 3.14159-1.10b-2.1 (Web2C 7.4.5)
>>                context : ver: 2004.8.15
>>                cont-en : ver: 2003.1.31  fmt: 2004.6.19  mes: english
>> ...
>> This functionality will eventually become part of texexec.
>>
>
> Great script! thanks you Taco,
>
> Just a suggestion:
> options for:
>    - putting the full path of the executables,
>    - some other informations for finding frequently source of problems
>      (metapost not operationnal...)

you can use textools for that: 

textools --find pdfetex.exe 
textools --find texnansi.enc 

etc 

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new ConTeXt versions

[Thomas A.Schmitz]

I just used Taco's new script (which I find wonderful, thanks so 
much!), and this made me realize a problem: the latest version of 
ConTeXt should have updated texexec to version 4.4 -- and it did, sort 
of. When I checked, it still said "texexec : TeXExec 4.0 - ConTeXt / 
PRAGMA ADE 1997-2004." I then realized that the new versions of the 
scripts sit in texmf/scripts/context, while the old versions (that are 
still being called by the binary texexec) reside in 
texmf/context/perltk. For the time being, I just copied them over (one 
could also put softlinks in there, I suppose), but I wonder if this 
behavior can be modified -- I coulnd't find anything in texexec.rme. My 
system is tetex on Mac OS X. Anyone else have the same problems?

Best

Thomas

Re: new ConTeXt versions

[Eckhart Guthöhrlein]

On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 01:00:03PM +0200, Thomas A.Schmitz wrote:
> I just used Taco's new script (which I find wonderful, thanks so 
> much!), and this made me realize a problem: the latest version of 
> ConTeXt should have updated texexec to version 4.4 -- and it did, sort 
> of. When I checked, it still said "texexec : TeXExec 4.0 - ConTeXt / 
> PRAGMA ADE 1997-2004." I then realized that the new versions of the 
> scripts sit in texmf/scripts/context, while the old versions (that are 
> still being called by the binary texexec) reside in 
> texmf/context/perltk. For the time being, I just copied them over (one 
> could also put softlinks in there, I suppose), but I wonder if this 
> behavior can be modified -- I coulnd't find anything in texexec.rme. My 
> system is tetex on Mac OS X. Anyone else have the same problems?

Here is what I do to be sure that always my own (up-to-date) context is
being used instead of any (almost certainly older) one from a tex
distribution, on all machines I have to use.
- I have context in my private texmf tree in $HOME. By default, this
	should be the first texmf being searched.
- I have links to texmf/scripts/context/xxx.pl etc in $HOME/bin (without
	suffix pl). $HOME/bin comes first in the search path for executables.

To be sure to notice changes like the new location of the scripts, I
usually remove an existing context before installing a newer one.

Regards,
Eckhart

Re: new ConTeXt versions

[Hans Hagen]

Thomas A.Schmitz wrote:

> I just used Taco's new script (which I find wonderful, thanks so 
> much!), and this made me realize a problem: the latest version of 
> ConTeXt should have updated texexec to version 4.4 -- and it did, sort 
> of. When I checked, it still said "texexec : TeXExec 4.0 - ConTeXt / 
> PRAGMA ADE 1997-2004." I then realized that the new versions of the 
> scripts sit in texmf/scripts/context, while the old versions (that are 
> still being called by the binary texexec) reside in 
> texmf/context/perltk. For the time being, I just copied them over (one 
> could also put softlinks in there, I suppose), but I wonder if this 
> behavior can be modified -- I coulnd't find anything in texexec.rme. 
> My system is tetex on Mac OS X. Anyone else have the same problems?

Welcome to the changes in tds and distributions. When you also update the binaries, you can use: 

textools --fixtexmftrees 

The scripts are loaded by so called stubs. If you want to play safe, use texmfstart instead: 

  texmfstart texexec.pl ..... 

The indirect way permits me to adapt things to changes in the tree (unfortunately those changes are not always downward compatible, but in texmfstart i can at least try to hide this) 

(see texmfstart manual for more features) 

Hans 

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