Hi Hans,

I set up a minimal Context with the mswintex.zip. The included Context 
was updated with the latest alpha cont-tmf.zip.

After running mktexlsr I started texmfstart cxtools --patternfiles all
in the alpha-context/tex directory. All pat and hyp files where then 
transferred into a new directory ..\texmf-local\pattern. Again mktexlsr 
was run.

Next texexec --make en de nl metafun mptopdf was run.
During preparation of the en-format there came the following error:
(see attached log file)
...

language        : patterns cz for cz loaded (n=13,e=il2,m=il2)
(c:\ALPHA-~1\tex\texmf/tex/csplain/czhyphen.tex
! Undefined control sequence.
l.36 .a4d\'e

?
! Undefined control sequence.
l.47 .a4r\'a

?
! Undefined control sequence.
l.73 .d4v\'i

....

After breaking this step with x the construction of the other fmt-files 
went without errors.

I know, that I am doing things, which I am unable to understand 
completely. Still I wonder what the problem is.

Willi

Hans Hagen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> In order to get rid of the pattern problems (no consistency in 
> internals, funny names, changing locations, changing names, etc) I 
> decided to provide the option to use context 'specific' pattern files, 
> although ... the pattern files have become quite generic and encoding 
> independent.
> 
> For those willing to test, i uploaded a new alpha version. In order to 
> use the new method you need to generate the pattern files in a path 
> known to tex.
> 
>   ctxtools --patterns all   (or a language code instead)
>   texexec --make --all
> 
> The pattern files use symbolic names instead of encoding specific 
> characters or tex commands. Because pattern files are often encoding 
> specific, loading a pattern file multiple times could be tricky. The 
> generated files can be loaded for any encoding that provides the named 
> glyphs (i.e. maps onto numbers).
> 
> [As a joke, i also provide the option to let those pattern files be 
> coded in xml.]
> 
> In principle, the files can be used in e.g. plain tex as well, for more 
> details see the new (preliminary) manual mpattern.pdf
> 
> Btw, I still have to do the cyrillic languages. if you think that for 
> your language a multiple encodings should be preloaded ... let me know. 
> Also, the manual has room for language specific information, char tables 
> etc
> 
> Hans
> 
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