new beta

new beta

[Hans Hagen]

Hi,

There is a new beta as well as a new magazine:

   http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/magazines/mag-0010.pdf

concerning the beta, i hope that engine path support is now better in texexec; 
there is also a new version of pstopdf (for the moment called newpdftops); when 
   inkscape is installed (v 0.41) you mag give svg to pdf a try

concerning on the fly conversion ... i need to make a new manual (or magazine) 
explaining it first;

among the new things is 'typescript definitions in your source file' (makes 
sense for small typescripts, not for large ones); see cont-sys.rme for a new 
option (\preloadtypescripts; it burns some memory but it's faster)


Hans

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Re: new beta

[Paul Tremblay]

On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 10:33:18PM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote:
> concerning the beta, i hope that engine path support is now better in 
> texexec; there is also a new version of pstopdf (for the moment called 
> newpdftops); when inkscape is installed (v 0.41) you mag give svg to pdf 
>   a try

Is inkscape the beast that gave you so much trouble with the glib
library? I know I tried to install it and gave up after I couldn't
install glib. 

Why did you choose inskscape? I thought inkscape is supposed to be a
great gui svg-editor, but I wonder if you need all of its power just
to do a conversion. I use batik for my conversions, which is part of
the apache project. Of course, it is written in java, which raises
other problems.

Anyway, it is promising that ConTeXt it going to incorporate svg.

Paul

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Re: new beta

[Hans Hagen]

Paul Tremblay wrote:

> Is inkscape the beast that gave you so much trouble with the glib
> library? I know I tried to install it and gave up after I couldn't
> install glib. 

indeed, but since i use windows as production platform i can wait till i've 
updated the linux machines; i have no idea how well inkscape installs on the mac

> Why did you choose inskscape? I thought inkscape is supposed to be a
> great gui svg-editor, but I wonder if you need all of its power just
> to do a conversion. I use batik for my conversions, which is part of
> the apache project. Of course, it is written in java, which raises
> other problems.

indeed, i find installing java programs (sometimes bigger than tex collections) 
with this classpath stuff often troublesome (unless there is an installer, which 
is often true for gui based programs);

concerning the alternatives: batik and imagemagick are not good enough (hardly 
maintained too); i ran a sample set of some 9000 svg graphics trough the 
converter tools and it worked ok with inkscape; it was also fast; btw, some 
versions give problems (0.41 is ok, 0.40 was bugged, 0.39 ok if i remember right)

(the only drawback of inkscape is the clumsy command line print feature, kind of 
piping, while just writing to a file would have been nicer)

Hans

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inkscape 0.41 on mandrake 10.1

[luigi.scarso]

Hans Hagen wrote:

> Paul Tremblay wrote:
>
>> Is inkscape the beast that gave you so much trouble with the glib
>> library? I know I tried to install it and gave up after I couldn't
>> install glib. 
>
>
> indeed, but since i use windows as production platform i can wait till 
> i've updated the linux machines; i have no idea how well inkscape 
> installs on the mac
>
>
On Linux Mandrake 10.1, with some efforts,
$>./configure --with-python  --with-gnome-vfs
works.

$>./configure --with-python  --with-gnome-vfs --with-perl 
--with-gnome-print
$> make
does not compile.

After first run, missing some plugin; I will see later.

$>ldd /usr/local/bin/inkscape
    linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xffffe000)
    libxslt.so.1 => /usr/lib/libxslt.so.1 (0x40029000)
    libxml2.so.2 => /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2 (0x4005a000)
    libgtkmm-2.4.so.1 => /usr/lib/libgtkmm-2.4.so.1 (0x40145000)
    libgdkmm-2.4.so.1 => /usr/lib/libgdkmm-2.4.so.1 (0x403cd000)
    libatkmm-1.6.so.1 => /usr/lib/libatkmm-1.6.so.1 (0x40410000)
    libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 (0x40453000)
    libpangomm-1.4.so.1 => /usr/lib/libpangomm-1.4.so.1 (0x40737000)
    libglibmm-2.4.so.1 => /usr/lib/libglibmm-2.4.so.1 (0x4075a000)
    libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x4079f000)
    libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 (0x407a5000)
    libatk-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libatk-1.0.so.0 (0x4081a000)
    libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0 (0x40836000)
    libpangoxft-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpangoxft-1.0.so.0 (0x4084d000)
    libpangox-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpangox-1.0.so.0 (0x40852000)
    libpng.so.3 => /usr/lib/libpng.so.3 (0x4085e000)
    libpopt.so.0 => /lib/libpopt.so.0 (0x40884000)
    libXft.so.2 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXft.so.2 (0x4088d000)
    libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x4089f000)
    libXrender.so.1 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXrender.so.1 (0x4096a000)
    libfontconfig.so.1 => /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1 (0x40972000)
    libpangoft2-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpangoft2-1.0.so.0 (0x4099d000)
    libpango-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpango-1.0.so.0 (0x409c3000)
    libgobject-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 (0x409f9000)
    libgmodule-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so.0 (0x40a39000)
    libglib-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 (0x40a3d000)
    libfreetype.so.6 => /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6 (0x40abd000)
    libz.so.1 => /lib/libz.so.1 (0x40b29000)
    libpthread.so.0 => /lib/tls/libpthread.so.0 (0x40b3a000)
    libutil.so.1 => /lib/libutil.so.1 (0x40b4c000)
    libgc.so.1 => /usr/local/lib/libgc.so.1 (0x40b4f000)
    libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x40b7c000)
    libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0x40b7f000)
    libm.so.6 => /lib/tls/libm.so.6 (0x40c51000)
    libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x40c74000)
    libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/libc.so.6 (0x40c7e000)
    libXrandr.so.2 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXrandr.so.2 (0x40d9d000)
    libXi.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXi.so.6 (0x40da1000)
    libXinerama.so.1 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXinerama.so.1 (0x40da9000)
    libXext.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x40dad000)
    libXcursor.so.1 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXcursor.so.1 (0x40dbb000)
    libexpat.so.0 => /usr/lib/libexpat.so.0 (0x40dc4000)
    /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)


luigi

Re: inkscape 0.41 on mandrake 10.1

[Taco Hoekwater]

Hi,

FYI: There is a precompiled rpm in 'i586/media/contrib',
version 0.39 for Mandrake 10.1, or version 0.41 for Mandrake
Cooker (10.2rc).

Taco

luigi.scarso wrote:
> Hans Hagen wrote:
> 
> On Linux Mandrake 10.1, with some efforts,
> $>./configure --with-python  --with-gnome-vfs
> works.

Re: inkscape 0.41 on mandrake 10.1

[Hans Hagen]

Taco Hoekwater wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> FYI: There is a precompiled rpm in 'i586/media/contrib',
> version 0.39 for Mandrake 10.1, or version 0.41 for Mandrake
> Cooker (10.2rc).

when i try that on the most recent linux box we have i get:

  libatkmm-1.6.so.1 is needed by inkscape-0.41-3mdk
         libgc.so.1 is needed by inkscape-0.41-3mdk
         libgdkmm-2.4.so.1 is needed by inkscape-0.41-3mdk
         libglibmm-2.4.so.1 is needed by inkscape-0.41-3mdk
         libgtkmm-2.4.so.1 is needed by inkscape-0.41-3mdk
         libgtkspell.so.0 is needed by inkscape-0.41-3mdk
         libpangomm-1.4.so.1 is needed by inkscape-0.41-3mdk
         libsigc-2.0.so.0 is needed by inkscape-0.41-3mdk
         libstdc++.so.6 is needed by inkscape-0.41-3mdk
         libstdc++.so.6(GLIBCXX_3.4) is needed by inkscape-0.41-3mdk
         perl(SVG) is needed by inkscape-0.41-3mdk
         perl(XML::XQL) is needed by inkscape-0.41-3mdk
         perl(XML::XQL::DOM) is needed by inkscape-0.41-3mdk

so ... i'll leave it for a while -)

Hans





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Re: new beta

[Thomas A.Schmitz]

Hmm, I just downloaded the latest and greatest beta, and it seems to be 
broken. The output of "texexec --version" is

texexec --version

  TeXExec 5.3.0 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005

                texexec : TeXExec 5.3.0 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005
                texutil : TeXUtil 9.0.0 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1992-2004
warning: Ignoring unknown argument `batchmode&cont-en' to --interaction.
kpathsea: Running mktexfmt context.fmt
fmtutil: no info for format `context'.
                    tex : unknown
                context : ver: 2005.04.13
                cont-en : unknown
warning: Ignoring unknown argument `batchmode&cont-de' to --interaction.
kpathsea: Running mktexfmt context.fmt
fmtutil: no info for format `context'.
                cont-de : unknown
warning: Ignoring unknown argument `batchmode&cont-nl' to --interaction.
kpathsea: Running mktexfmt context.fmt
fmtutil: no info for format `context'.
                cont-nl : unknown

         total run time : 6 seconds


Every run of context hangs with this message:

Running `ConTeXt' on `text' with ``texexec --pdf --nonstop --texutil 
text.tex''

  TeXExec 5.3.0 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005

             executable : pdfetex
                 format : cont-en
              inputfile : text
                 output : pdftex
              interface : en
                options : nonstop
           current mode : none
                TeX run : 1

warning: Ignoring unknown argument `nonstopmode&cont-en' to 
--interaction.
This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4)
  \write18 enabled.
  (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/web2c/natural.tcx)
kpathsea: Running mktexfmt context.fmt
fmtutil: no info for format `context'.
I can't find the format file `context.fmt'!

            return code : 256
               run time : 1 seconds

         total run time : 2 seconds

ConTeXt exited abnormally with code 1 at Thu Apr 14 16:26:26

I get the same error both under Mac OS X and linux, so it doesn't 
appear to be anything platform-specific. Hans?

Best

Thomas


On Apr 13, 2005, at 10:33 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:

> Hi,
>
> There is a new beta as well as a new magazine:
>
>   http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/magazines/mag-0010.pdf
>
> concerning the beta, i hope that engine path support is now better in 
> texexec; there is also a new version of pstopdf (for the moment called 
> newpdftops); when   inkscape is installed (v 0.41) you mag give svg to 
> pdf a try
>
> concerning on the fly conversion ... i need to make a new manual (or 
> magazine) explaining it first;
>
> among the new things is 'typescript definitions in your source file' 
> (makes sense for small typescripts, not for large ones); see 
> cont-sys.rme for a new option (\preloadtypescripts; it burns some 
> memory but it's faster)
>
>
> Hans
>
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Re: new beta

[Thomas A.Schmitz]

Sorry to be a pest, but am I the only one seeing these problems? Has 
everyone else installed the latest beta without problems? I thought 
that I may have made a silly mistake installing, so I installed again 
using Gerben's method, but I get the same error. For all purposes, this 
beta does seem to be broken?

Best

Thomas
On Apr 14, 2005, at 4:29 PM, Thomas A.Schmitz wrote:

> Hmm, I just downloaded the latest and greatest beta, and it seems to 
> be broken. The output of "texexec --version" is
>
> texexec --version
>
>  TeXExec 5.3.0 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005
>
>                texexec : TeXExec 5.3.0 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005
>                texutil : TeXUtil 9.0.0 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1992-2004
> warning: Ignoring unknown argument `batchmode&cont-en' to 
> --interaction.
> kpathsea: Running mktexfmt context.fmt
> fmtutil: no info for format `context'.
>                    tex : unknown
>                context : ver: 2005.04.13
>                cont-en : unknown
> warning: Ignoring unknown argument `batchmode&cont-de' to 
> --interaction.
> kpathsea: Running mktexfmt context.fmt
> fmtutil: no info for format `context'.
>                cont-de : unknown
> warning: Ignoring unknown argument `batchmode&cont-nl' to 
> --interaction.
> kpathsea: Running mktexfmt context.fmt
> fmtutil: no info for format `context'.
>                cont-nl : unknown
>
>         total run time : 6 seconds
>
>
> Every run of context hangs with this message:
>
> Running `ConTeXt' on `text' with ``texexec --pdf --nonstop --texutil 
> text.tex''
>
>  TeXExec 5.3.0 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005
>
>             executable : pdfetex
>                 format : cont-en
>              inputfile : text
>                 output : pdftex
>              interface : en
>                options : nonstop
>           current mode : none
>                TeX run : 1
>
> warning: Ignoring unknown argument `nonstopmode&cont-en' to 
> --interaction.
> This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4)
>  \write18 enabled.
>  (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/web2c/natural.tcx)
> kpathsea: Running mktexfmt context.fmt
> fmtutil: no info for format `context'.
> I can't find the format file `context.fmt'!
>
>            return code : 256
>               run time : 1 seconds
>
>         total run time : 2 seconds
>
> ConTeXt exited abnormally with code 1 at Thu Apr 14 16:26:26
>
> I get the same error both under Mac OS X and linux, so it doesn't 
> appear to be anything platform-specific. Hans?
>
> Best
>
> Thomas
>
>
> On Apr 13, 2005, at 10:33 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> There is a new beta as well as a new magazine:
>>
>>   http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/magazines/mag-0010.pdf
>>
>> concerning the beta, i hope that engine path support is now better in 
>> texexec; there is also a new version of pstopdf (for the moment 
>> called newpdftops); when   inkscape is installed (v 0.41) you mag 
>> give svg to pdf a try
>>
>> concerning on the fly conversion ... i need to make a new manual (or 
>> magazine) explaining it first;
>>
>> among the new things is 'typescript definitions in your source file' 
>> (makes sense for small typescripts, not for large ones); see 
>> cont-sys.rme for a new option (\preloadtypescripts; it burns some 
>> memory but it's faster)
>>
>>
>> Hans
>>
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Re: new beta

[Otared Kavian]

At 8:29 +0200 15/04/05, Thomas A.Schmitz wrote:
>>Every run of context hangs with this message:
>>
>>Running `ConTeXt' on `text' with ``texexec --pdf --nonstop 
>>--texutil text.tex''
>>
>>  TeXExec 5.3.0 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005
>>
>>             executable : pdfetex
>>                 format : cont-en
>>              inputfile : text
>>                 output : pdftex
>>              interface : en
>>                options : nonstop
>>           current mode : none
>>                TeX run : 1
>>
>>warning: Ignoring unknown argument `nonstopmode&cont-en' to --interaction.
>>This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4)
>>  \write18 enabled.
>>  (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/web2c/natural.tcx)
>>kpathsea: Running mktexfmt context.fmt
>>fmtutil: no info for format `context'.
>>I can't find the format file `context.fmt'!

Hi Thomas,

After reading your message, I just wanted to experiment, and so 
installed the new beta with Gerben's i-Installer (on Max OS X 10.3.8) 
and first I got an error message due to the fact that I had a 
"context-en.fmt" made with xetex (in
/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/web2c/xetex/cont-en.fmt
but I renamed it).
Then after making a texhash, ran again context and ended up with an 
error, which is not exactly as yours:
	No pages of output.
	Transcript written on cont-en.log.' instead of a filename.
	Sorry, I can't find the format `cont-en.fmt'; will try `context.fmt'.
	kpathsea: Running mktexfmt context.fmt
	fmtutil: no info for format `context'.
	I can't find the format file `context.fmt'!

Since I don't have time to understand what is wrong right now, I am 
going back to the previous version of context...

Best regards: OK

Re: new beta

[Peter Rolf]

Hello Thomas,

i have installed the latest beta without any problems on XP.
There is also a slightly newer beta at pragma (2005-04-14 22:02).
Give it a try...

Greets,

Peter

Thomas A.Schmitz wrote:

> Sorry to be a pest, but am I the only one seeing these problems? Has 
> everyone else installed the latest beta without problems? I thought 
> that I may have made a silly mistake installing, so I installed again 
> using Gerben's method, but I get the same error. For all purposes, 
> this beta does seem to be broken?
>
> Best
>
> Thomas
> On Apr 14, 2005, at 4:29 PM, Thomas A.Schmitz wrote:
>
>> Hmm, I just downloaded the latest and greatest beta, and it seems to 
>> be broken. The output of "texexec --version" is
>>
>> texexec --version
>>
>>  TeXExec 5.3.0 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005
>>
>>                texexec : TeXExec 5.3.0 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005
>>                texutil : TeXUtil 9.0.0 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1992-2004
>> warning: Ignoring unknown argument `batchmode&cont-en' to --interaction.
>> kpathsea: Running mktexfmt context.fmt
>> fmtutil: no info for format `context'.
>>                    tex : unknown
>>                context : ver: 2005.04.13
>>                cont-en : unknown
>> warning: Ignoring unknown argument `batchmode&cont-de' to --interaction.
>> kpathsea: Running mktexfmt context.fmt
>> fmtutil: no info for format `context'.
>>                cont-de : unknown
>> warning: Ignoring unknown argument `batchmode&cont-nl' to --interaction.
>> kpathsea: Running mktexfmt context.fmt
>> fmtutil: no info for format `context'.
>>                cont-nl : unknown
>>
>>         total run time : 6 seconds
>>
>>
>> Every run of context hangs with this message:
>>
>> Running `ConTeXt' on `text' with ``texexec --pdf --nonstop --texutil 
>> text.tex''
>>
>>  TeXExec 5.3.0 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005
>>
>>             executable : pdfetex
>>                 format : cont-en
>>              inputfile : text
>>                 output : pdftex
>>              interface : en
>>                options : nonstop
>>           current mode : none
>>                TeX run : 1
>>
>> warning: Ignoring unknown argument `nonstopmode&cont-en' to 
>> --interaction.
>> This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4)
>>  \write18 enabled.
>>  (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/web2c/natural.tcx)
>> kpathsea: Running mktexfmt context.fmt
>> fmtutil: no info for format `context'.
>> I can't find the format file `context.fmt'!
>>
>>            return code : 256
>>               run time : 1 seconds
>>
>>         total run time : 2 seconds
>>
>> ConTeXt exited abnormally with code 1 at Thu Apr 14 16:26:26
>>
>> I get the same error both under Mac OS X and linux, so it doesn't 
>> appear to be anything platform-specific. Hans?
>>
>> Best
>>
>> Thomas
>>
>>
>> On Apr 13, 2005, at 10:33 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> There is a new beta as well as a new magazine:
>>>
>>>   http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/magazines/mag-0010.pdf
>>>
>>> concerning the beta, i hope that engine path support is now better 
>>> in texexec; there is also a new version of pstopdf (for the moment 
>>> called newpdftops); when   inkscape is installed (v 0.41) you mag 
>>> give svg to pdf a try
>>>
>>> concerning on the fly conversion ... i need to make a new manual (or 
>>> magazine) explaining it first;
>>>
>>> among the new things is 'typescript definitions in your source file' 
>>> (makes sense for small typescripts, not for large ones); see 
>>> cont-sys.rme for a new option (\preloadtypescripts; it burns some 
>>> memory but it's faster)
>>>
>>>
>>> Hans
>>>
>>> -----------------------------------------------------------------
>>>                                           Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE
>>>               Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands
>>>      tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com
>>>                                              | www.pragma-pod.nl
>>> -----------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
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>>
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Re: new beta

[Hans Hagen]

Thomas A.Schmitz wrote:

> Hmm, I just downloaded the latest and greatest beta, and it seems to be 
> broken. The output of "texexec --version" is

can you try todays upload?

after that we can look into the details; it may have to do with the engine 
subpath features

Hans

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Re: new beta

[Thomas A.Schmitz]

Peter,

thanks for the hint. The very latest version even has 2005-04-15 09:05. 
Still no go - same errors. For the time being, I reverted to the 
previous beta as well.

Otared:
right, I got this error too and simply removed the xetex-format (never 
used it anyway). I even could make ConTeXt work by recreating the 
format. Unfortunately, it screwed up all of the fonts that I had 
installed - something about the map-file. Well. that's what a beta is 
for...

Best

Thomas

On Apr 15, 2005, at 10:51 AM, Peter Rolf wrote:

> Hello Thomas,
>
> i have installed the latest beta without any problems on XP.
> There is also a slightly newer beta at pragma (2005-04-14 22:02).
> Give it a try...
>
> Greets,
>
> Peter
>
> Thomas A.Schmitz wrote:
>
>> Sorry to be a pest, but am I the only one seeing these problems? Has 
>> everyone else installed the latest beta without problems? I thought 
>> that I may have made a silly mistake installing, so I installed again 
>> using Gerben's method, but I get the same error. For all purposes, 
>> this beta does seem to be broken?
>>
>> Best
>>
>> Thomas
>> On Apr 14, 2005, at 4:29 PM, Thomas A.Schmitz wrote:
>>
>>> Hmm, I just downloaded the latest and greatest beta, and it seems to 
>>> be broken. The output of "texexec --version" is
>>>
>>> texexec --version
>>>
>>>  TeXExec 5.3.0 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005
>>>
>>>                texexec : TeXExec 5.3.0 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 
>>> 1997-2005
>>>                texutil : TeXUtil 9.0.0 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 
>>> 1992-2004
>>> warning: Ignoring unknown argument `batchmode&cont-en' to 
>>> --interaction.
>>> kpathsea: Running mktexfmt context.fmt
>>> fmtutil: no info for format `context'.
>>>                    tex : unknown
>>>                context : ver: 2005.04.13
>>>                cont-en : unknown
>>> warning: Ignoring unknown argument `batchmode&cont-de' to 
>>> --interaction.
>>> kpathsea: Running mktexfmt context.fmt
>>> fmtutil: no info for format `context'.
>>>                cont-de : unknown
>>> warning: Ignoring unknown argument `batchmode&cont-nl' to 
>>> --interaction.
>>> kpathsea: Running mktexfmt context.fmt
>>> fmtutil: no info for format `context'.
>>>                cont-nl : unknown
>>>
>>>         total run time : 6 seconds
>>>
>>>
>>> Every run of context hangs with this message:
>>>
>>> Running `ConTeXt' on `text' with ``texexec --pdf --nonstop --texutil 
>>> text.tex''
>>>
>>>  TeXExec 5.3.0 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005
>>>
>>>             executable : pdfetex
>>>                 format : cont-en
>>>              inputfile : text
>>>                 output : pdftex
>>>              interface : en
>>>                options : nonstop
>>>           current mode : none
>>>                TeX run : 1
>>>
>>> warning: Ignoring unknown argument `nonstopmode&cont-en' to 
>>> --interaction.
>>> This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4)
>>>  \write18 enabled.
>>>  (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/web2c/natural.tcx)
>>> kpathsea: Running mktexfmt context.fmt
>>> fmtutil: no info for format `context'.
>>> I can't find the format file `context.fmt'!
>>>
>>>            return code : 256
>>>               run time : 1 seconds
>>>
>>>         total run time : 2 seconds
>>>
>>> ConTeXt exited abnormally with code 1 at Thu Apr 14 16:26:26
>>>
>>> I get the same error both under Mac OS X and linux, so it doesn't 
>>> appear to be anything platform-specific. Hans?
>>>
>>> Best
>>>
>>> Thomas
>>>
>>>
>>> On Apr 13, 2005, at 10:33 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> There is a new beta as well as a new magazine:
>>>>
>>>>   http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/magazines/mag-0010.pdf
>>>>
>>>> concerning the beta, i hope that engine path support is now better 
>>>> in texexec; there is also a new version of pstopdf (for the moment 
>>>> called newpdftops); when   inkscape is installed (v 0.41) you mag 
>>>> give svg to pdf a try
>>>>
>>>> concerning on the fly conversion ... i need to make a new manual 
>>>> (or magazine) explaining it first;
>>>>
>>>> among the new things is 'typescript definitions in your source 
>>>> file' (makes sense for small typescripts, not for large ones); see 
>>>> cont-sys.rme for a new option (\preloadtypescripts; it burns some 
>>>> memory but it's faster)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hans
>>>>
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Re: new beta

[Hans Hagen]

Otared Kavian wrote:

> Since I don't have time to understand what is wrong right now, I am 
> going back to the previous version of context...

in your texmf.cnf file, there should be lines like:

TEXFORMATS    = .;$TEXMF/web2c/{$ENGINE,}
MFBASES       = .;$TEXFORMATS
MPMEMS        = .;$TEXFORMATS
TEXPOOL       = .;$TEXFORMATS
MFPOOL        = .;$TEXFORMATS
MPPOOL        = .;$TEXFORMATS

can you try today's beta?

we need to get this engine stuff working ok (unfortunately kpse is not entirely 
ok in this recpect) so that one can use several engines alongside

Hans

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Re: new beta

[Thomas A.Schmitz]

Yes, I tried that one too - same result. Must have somthing to do with 
subpaths, also a problem with mapfiles. When I try the latest, my own 
maps are not taken into account.

Thomas


On Apr 15, 2005, at 10:53 AM, Hans Hagen wrote:

> Thomas A.Schmitz wrote:
>
>> Hmm, I just downloaded the latest and greatest beta, and it seems to 
>> be broken. The output of "texexec --version" is
>
> can you try todays upload?
>
> after that we can look into the details; it may have to do with the 
> engine subpath features
>
> Hans
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Re: new beta

[David Munger]

I tried today's beta too. Got exactly the same output as Otared's.

Regards,

David

Otared Kavian :
> Then after making a texhash, ran again context and ended up with an 
> error, which is not exactly as yours:
> 	No pages of output.
> 	Transcript written on cont-en.log.' instead of a filename.
> 	Sorry, I can't find the format `cont-en.fmt'; will try `context.fmt'.
> 	kpathsea: Running mktexfmt context.fmt
> 	fmtutil: no info for format `context'.
> 	I can't find the format file `context.fmt'!
> 

Re: new beta

[David Munger]

Hi Thomas,

You may try to look in your texexec.ini (run "kpsewhich texexec.ini" to
get the path) for those lines:

set  TeXFormatFlag      to  &
set  MpFormatFlag       to  &

and replace them with those:

set  TeXFormatFlag      to  \&
set  MpFormatFlag       to  \&


It solved it for me.

Regards,

David


Thomas A.Schmitz :
> Sorry to be a pest, but am I the only one seeing these problems? Has 
> everyone else installed the latest beta without problems? I thought 
> that I may have made a silly mistake installing, so I installed again 
> using Gerben's method, but I get the same error. For all purposes, this 
> beta does seem to be broken?
> 
> Best
> 
> Thomas

Re: new beta

[Thomas A.Schmitz]

Thanks David,

modifying texexec.rme and saving it as texexec.ini solved some of the 
problems. Here's my story:

1. output of texexec --version unchanged:
texexec --version

  TeXExec 5.3.1 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005

                texexec : TeXExec 5.3.1 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005
                texutil : TeXUtil 9.0.0 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1992-2004
warning: Ignoring unknown argument `batchmode&cont-en' to --interaction.
kpathsea: Running mktexfmt context.fmt
fmtutil: no info for format `context'.
                    tex : unknown
                context : ver: 2005.04.15
                cont-en : unknown
warning: Ignoring unknown argument `batchmode&cont-de' to --interaction.
kpathsea: Running mktexfmt context.fmt
fmtutil: no info for format `context'.
                cont-de : unknown
warning: Ignoring unknown argument `batchmode&cont-nl' to --interaction.
kpathsea: Running mktexfmt context.fmt
fmtutil: no info for format `context'.
                cont-nl : unknown

         total run time : 5 seconds

2. Nevertheless, texexec now processes my files. However, my log is 
filled with hundreds of lines like this:
Warning: pdfetex (file 
/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/fonts/map/pdftex/cont
ext/pdftex.map): fontmap entry for `txbttsc' already exists, duplicates 
ignored


Warning: pdfetex (file 
/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/fonts/map/pdftex/cont
ext/pdftex.map): fontmap entry for `t1xtt' already exists, duplicates 
ignored

Warning: pdfetex (file 
/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/fonts/map/pdftex/cont
ext/pdftex.map): fontmap entry for `t1xttsl' already exists, duplicates 
ignored


Warning: pdfetex (file 
/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/fonts/map/pdftex/cont
ext/pdftex.map): fontmap entry for `t1xttsc' already exists, duplicates 
ignored

3. Context now NEEDS the line
loadmapfile foo.map
in every document. Before, this was an option. I typically used updmap 
to keep my config files in sync (because I want to use my fonts with 
LaTeX from time to time), so I didn't use this feature much. Now, 
however, context doesn't seem to read the normal config files any more.

Not sure if this is the expected behavior or a bug.

Thanks!

Thomas

On Apr 15, 2005, at 4:03 PM, David Munger wrote:

> Hi Thomas,
>
> You may try to look in your texexec.ini (run "kpsewhich texexec.ini" to
> get the path) for those lines:
>
> set  TeXFormatFlag      to  &
> set  MpFormatFlag       to  &
>
> and replace them with those:
>
> set  TeXFormatFlag      to  \&
> set  MpFormatFlag       to  \&
>
>
> It solved it for me.
>
> Regards,
>
> David
>
>
> Thomas A.Schmitz :
>> Sorry to be a pest, but am I the only one seeing these problems? Has
>> everyone else installed the latest beta without problems? I thought
>> that I may have made a silly mistake installing, so I installed again
>> using Gerben's method, but I get the same error. For all purposes, 
>> this
>> beta does seem to be broken?
>>
>> Best
>>
>> Thomas
>
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Re: new beta

[Thomas A.Schmitz]

Oh, one more thing: interestingly, updating ConTeXt makes pdflatex 
break, too - in fact, every flavor of TeX that use pdfetex. pdfetex 
somehow reads a mapfile that ConTeXt provides and then complains about 
missing font. So I have to use the prior beta.

Best

Thomas
On Apr 15, 2005, at 4:03 PM, David Munger wrote:

> Hi Thomas,
>
> You may try to look in your texexec.ini (run "kpsewhich texexec.ini" to
> get the path) for those lines:
>
> set  TeXFormatFlag      to  &
> set  MpFormatFlag       to  &
>
> and replace them with those:
>
> set  TeXFormatFlag      to  \&
> set  MpFormatFlag       to  \&
>
>
> It solved it for me.
>
> Regards,
>
> David
>
>
> Thomas A.Schmitz :
>> Sorry to be a pest, but am I the only one seeing these problems? Has
>> everyone else installed the latest beta without problems? I thought
>> that I may have made a silly mistake installing, so I installed again
>> using Gerben's method, but I get the same error. For all purposes, 
>> this
>> beta does seem to be broken?
>>
>> Best
>>
>> Thomas
>
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Re: new beta

[Gerben Wierda]

[-- Attachment #1.1: Type: text/plain, Size: 1337 bytes --]

i-Package configure ends with

fmtutil: /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/web2c/cont-en.fmt installed.
fmtutil: /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/web2c/cont-nl.fmt installed.
fmtutil: /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/web2c/mptopdf.fmt installed.
fmtutil: /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/web2c/metafun.mem installed.

which means that creating the formats works fine on my machine. I do 
not have xetex installed.

G

On 15 Apr 2005, at 16:03, David Munger wrote:

> Hi Thomas,
>
> You may try to look in your texexec.ini (run "kpsewhich texexec.ini" to
> get the path) for those lines:
>
> set  TeXFormatFlag      to  &
> set  MpFormatFlag       to  &
>
> and replace them with those:
>
> set  TeXFormatFlag      to  \&
> set  MpFormatFlag       to  \&
>
>
> It solved it for me.
>
> Regards,
>
> David
>
>
> Thomas A.Schmitz :
>> Sorry to be a pest, but am I the only one seeing these problems? Has
>> everyone else installed the latest beta without problems? I thought
>> that I may have made a silly mistake installing, so I installed again
>> using Gerben's method, but I get the same error. For all purposes, 
>> this
>> beta does seem to be broken?
>>
>> Best
>>
>> Thomas
>
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[-- Attachment #1.2: Type: text/enriched, Size: 1397 bytes --]

i-Package configure ends with


<fixed><color><param>FFFF,0000,0000</param>fmtutil:
/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/web2c/cont-en.fmt installed.

fmtutil: /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/web2c/cont-nl.fmt
installed.

fmtutil: /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/web2c/mptopdf.fmt
installed.

fmtutil: /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/web2c/metafun.mem
installed.

</color></fixed>

which means that creating the formats works fine on my machine. I do
not have xetex installed.


G


On 15 Apr 2005, at 16:03, David Munger wrote:


<excerpt>Hi Thomas,


You may try to look in your texexec.ini (run "kpsewhich texexec.ini" to

get the path) for those lines:


set  TeXFormatFlag      to  &

set  MpFormatFlag       to  &


and replace them with those:


set  TeXFormatFlag      to  \&

set  MpFormatFlag       to  \&



It solved it for me.


Regards,


David



Thomas A.Schmitz :

<excerpt>Sorry to be a pest, but am I the only one seeing these
problems? Has 

everyone else installed the latest beta without problems? I thought 

that I may have made a silly mistake installing, so I installed again 

using Gerben's method, but I get the same error. For all purposes,
this 

beta does seem to be broken?


Best


Thomas

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Re: new beta

[Hans Hagen]

David Munger wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
> 
> You may try to look in your texexec.ini (run "kpsewhich texexec.ini" to
> get the path) for those lines:
> 
> set  TeXFormatFlag      to  &
> set  MpFormatFlag       to  &
> 
> and replace them with those:
> 
> set  TeXFormatFlag      to  \&
> set  MpFormatFlag       to  \&
> 
> 
> It solved it for me.

interesting, since i do a clean up on them

Hans

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Re: new beta

[Hans Hagen]

David Munger wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
> 
> You may try to look in your texexec.ini (run "kpsewhich texexec.ini" to
> get the path) for those lines:
> 
> set  TeXFormatFlag      to  &
> set  MpFormatFlag       to  &
> 
> and replace them with those:
> 
> set  TeXFormatFlag      to  \&
> set  MpFormatFlag       to  \&
> 

i have this code:

   my $escapeshell = ( ($ENV{'SHELL'}) && ($ENV{'SHELL'} =~ m/sh/i ));

and

unless ( $dosish && ! $escapeshell ) {
     $cmd =~ s/[^\\]\&/\\\&/io ;
}

so mayeb there is something wrong there? interestingly it does work ok on our 
linux box

Hans

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Re: new beta

[Hans Hagen]

Thomas A.Schmitz wrote:
> Oh, one more thing: interestingly, updating ConTeXt makes pdflatex 
> break, too - in fact, every flavor of TeX that use pdfetex. pdfetex 
> somehow reads a mapfile that ConTeXt provides and then complains about 
> missing font. So I have to use the prior beta.

ah, i see, this pdftex.map should not be in the zip; it ended up in my path when 
playing with map files for idris aleph etc

Hans

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Re: new beta

[David Munger]

Hans,

> unless ( $dosish && ! $escapeshell ) {
>      $cmd =~ s/[^\\]\&/\\\&/io ;
> }

The space before the & gets replaced by a \ so that cmd was:

... -int=batchmode &cont-en

and becomes:

... -int=batchmode\&cont-en


Maybe use:
$cmd =~ s/([^\\])\&/$1\\\&/io ;


David

Re: new beta

[Thomas A.Schmitz]

OK, will look at it later tonight. Could also be a problem with my 
shell (I use zsh both on OS X and on linux). But now I'm off to a 
chorus rehearsal (Monteverdi, wonderful).

Best

Thomas

On Apr 15, 2005, at 5:15 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:

> David Munger wrote:
>> Hi Thomas,
>> You may try to look in your texexec.ini (run "kpsewhich texexec.ini" 
>> to
>> get the path) for those lines:
>> set  TeXFormatFlag      to  &
>> set  MpFormatFlag       to  &
>> and replace them with those:
>> set  TeXFormatFlag      to  \&
>> set  MpFormatFlag       to  \&
>
> i have this code:
>
>   my $escapeshell = ( ($ENV{'SHELL'}) && ($ENV{'SHELL'} =~ m/sh/i ));
>
> and
>
> unless ( $dosish && ! $escapeshell ) {
>     $cmd =~ s/[^\\]\&/\\\&/io ;
> }
>
> so mayeb there is something wrong there? interestingly it does work ok 
> on our linux box
>
> Hans
>
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Re: new beta

[Hans Hagen]

David Munger wrote:

> Maybe use:
> $cmd =~ s/([^\\])\&/$1\\\&/io ;

ok, let's give that a try; can those with problem stest this patch?

Hans

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Re: new beta

[Hans Hagen]

Thomas A.Schmitz wrote:
> Oh, one more thing: interestingly, updating ConTeXt makes pdflatex 
> break, too - in fact, every flavor of TeX that use pdfetex. pdfetex 
> somehow reads a mapfile that ConTeXt provides and then complains about 
> missing font. So I have to use the prior beta.

delete the pdftex,map file in the fonts/map/pdftex/context path

(i fixed the beta zip)

Hans

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Re: new beta

[Thomas A.Schmitz]

OK, I think I got the new beta working now under OS X. David Munger's 
suggestions were key (thanks a lot!). I had to apply both fixes, 
AFAICS:

1. Open $TEXMF/web2c/context/config/texexec.rme. line 68-69 are

set  TeXFormatFlag      to  &
set  MpFormatFlag       to  &

and need to be modified like so

set  TeXFormatFlag      to  \&
set  MpFormatFlag       to  \&

2. Open $TEXMF/scripts/context/perl/texexec.pl. line 2442-2444 are

unless ( $dosish && !$escapeshell ) {
     $cmd =~ s/[^\\]\&/\\\&/io ;
}

and should become

unless ( $dosish && !$escapeshell ) {
     $cmd =~ s/([^\\])\&/$1\\\&/io ;
}

3. After that, run texexec --make en metafun and texhash again, and you 
should be in business.

Will try the same under my (gentoo) linux system later today.

Thanks everybody for getting this fixed!

Best

Thomas

On Apr 15, 2005, at 11:30 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:

> Thomas A.Schmitz wrote:
>> Oh, one more thing: interestingly, updating ConTeXt makes pdflatex 
>> break, too - in fact, every flavor of TeX that use pdfetex. pdfetex 
>> somehow reads a mapfile that ConTeXt provides and then complains 
>> about missing font. So I have to use the prior beta.
>
> delete the pdftex,map file in the fonts/map/pdftex/context path
>
> (i fixed the beta zip)
>
> Hans
>
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Re: new beta

[David Munger]

Hi Thomas,

Thanks for trying, but it is not the correct way. Sorry for being
unclear. The point is that shell escaping was not done in the proper
way. Fix 1 used to do it in the configuration file (texexec.ini) which
is basically a bad idea. Shell escaping has to be done properly by
texexec.


Thomas A.Schmitz :
> OK, I think I got the new beta working now under OS X. David Munger's 
> suggestions were key (thanks a lot!). I had to apply both fixes, 
> AFAICS:

Fix 1 should not be applied. Don't touch your texexec.ini, the right
lines are the original ones:

set  TeXFormatFlag      to  &
set  MpFormatFlag       to  &

Fix 2 has to be applied to lines 1505 _and _ 2443:

$cmd =~ s/([^\\])\&/$1\\\&/io ;


Regards,

David

Re: new beta

[Thomas A.Schmitz]

OK, discarded texexec.ini and modified line 1505 as well. Does seem to 
work so far, thanks!

Thomas
On Apr 16, 2005, at 4:43 PM, David Munger wrote:

> Hi Thomas,
>
> Thanks for trying, but it is not the correct way. Sorry for being
> unclear. The point is that shell escaping was not done in the proper
> way. Fix 1 used to do it in the configuration file (texexec.ini) which
> is basically a bad idea. Shell escaping has to be done properly by
> texexec.
>
>
> Thomas A.Schmitz :
>> OK, I think I got the new beta working now under OS X. David Munger's
>> suggestions were key (thanks a lot!). I had to apply both fixes,
>> AFAICS:
>
> Fix 1 should not be applied. Don't touch your texexec.ini, the right
> lines are the original ones:
>
> set  TeXFormatFlag      to  &
> set  MpFormatFlag       to  &
>
> Fix 2 has to be applied to lines 1505 _and _ 2443:
>
> $cmd =~ s/([^\\])\&/$1\\\&/io ;
>
>
> Regards,
>
> David
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Re: new beta

[David Munger]

Hans,

That's not enough. There is another problem when ConTeXt text has to be
rendered from inside MetaPost graphics. Consider the following code:

\starttext
\startuseMPgraphic{mptest}
  label (btex test etex, origin);
\stopuseMPgraphic
\useMPgraphic{mptest}
\stoptext

Even with the patch for texexec.pl ($cmd =~ s/([^\\])\&/$1\\\&/io ;), it
fails.

The problem occurs during the call to:

	pdfetex  -progname=context \&cont-en

from within texexec.pl.

But surprisingly, it compiles successfully with the '\&' fix in
texexec.ini. I guess that pdfetex has to call ConTeXt somehow in order
to produce the `btex/etex' output, but that instance of ConTeXt doesn't
do the shell escaping correctly.

Any clue? What script should I look into?


Regards,

David

Re: new beta

[Hans Hagen]

David Munger wrote:

> Thanks for trying, but it is not the correct way. Sorry for being
> unclear. The point is that shell escaping was not done in the proper
> way. Fix 1 used to do it in the configuration file (texexec.ini) which
> is basically a bad idea. Shell escaping has to be done properly by
> texexec.

i've rewritten the make code in ruby and will do some testing asap

Hans

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Re: new beta

[Hans Hagen]

David Munger wrote:
> Hans,
> 
> That's not enough. There is another problem when ConTeXt text has to be
> rendered from inside MetaPost graphics. Consider the following code:
> 
> \starttext
> \startuseMPgraphic{mptest}
>   label (btex test etex, origin);
> \stopuseMPgraphic
> \useMPgraphic{mptest}
> \stoptext
> 
> Even with the patch for texexec.pl ($cmd =~ s/([^\\])\&/$1\\\&/io ;), it
> fails.
> 
> The problem occurs during the call to:
> 
> 	pdfetex  -progname=context \&cont-en
> 
> from within texexec.pl.
> 
> But surprisingly, it compiles successfully with the '\&' fix in
> texexec.ini. I guess that pdfetex has to call ConTeXt somehow in order
> to produce the `btex/etex' output, but that instance of ConTeXt doesn't
> do the shell escaping correctly.
> 
> Any clue? What script should I look into?

what shell do you use?

Hans

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Re: new beta

[Thomas A.Schmitz]

My installation has lost the ability to regenerate formats in the 
latest beta:

sudo texexec --make en de nl metafun

  TeXExec 5.3.1 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005


         total run time : 1 seconds


sudo fmtutil --byfmt cont-en.fmt
fmtutil: no info for format `cont-en.fmt'.

Clueless???

Thomas

Re: new beta

[Adam Lindsay]

Thomas A.Schmitz said this at Tue, 19 Apr 2005 14:18:55 +0200:

>My installation has lost the ability to regenerate formats in the 
>latest beta:

This is being discussed on the dev-context list:
<http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/dev-context/2005/000168.html>
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Re: new beta

[David Munger]

Le mardi 19 avril 2005 à 09:43 +0200, Hans Hagen a écrit :
> David Munger wrote:
> > Hans,
> > 
> > That's not enough. There is another problem when ConTeXt text has to be
> > rendered from inside MetaPost graphics. Consider the following code:
> > 
> > \starttext
> > \startuseMPgraphic{mptest}
> >   label (btex test etex, origin);
> > \stopuseMPgraphic
> > \useMPgraphic{mptest}
> > \stoptext
> > 
> > Even with the patch for texexec.pl ($cmd =~ s/([^\\])\&/$1\\\&/io ;), it
> > fails.
> > 
> > The problem occurs during the call to:
> > 
> > 	pdfetex  -progname=context \&cont-en
> > 
> > from within texexec.pl.
> > 
> > But surprisingly, it compiles successfully with the '\&' fix in
> > texexec.ini. I guess that pdfetex has to call ConTeXt somehow in order
> > to produce the `btex/etex' output, but that instance of ConTeXt doesn't
> > do the shell escaping correctly.
> > 
> > Any clue? What script should I look into?
> 
> what shell do you use?

bash

The first escaping works. The problem occurs only when compiling the
MetaPost.

David

Re: new beta

[Hans Hagen]

Adam Lindsay wrote:
> Thomas A.Schmitz said this at Tue, 19 Apr 2005 14:18:55 +0200:
> 
> 
>>My installation has lost the ability to regenerate formats in the 
>>latest beta:

yesterdays beta or todays?

> This is being discussed on the dev-context list:
> <http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/dev-context/2005/000168.html>

Adam: in texexec.pl the cal to ctxtools should be prefixed by texmfstart 
(texmfstart texexec --make ...)

Hans

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Re: new beta

[David Munger]

Solved.

Insert the usual escaping command before line 2769 of texexec.pl:

...

unless ( $dosish && !$escapeshell ) {
    $cmd =~ s/[^\\]\&/\\\&/io ;
}

$Problems = system("$cmd $MpMpName");


David

Re: new beta

[Thomas A.Schmitz]

On Apr 19, 2005, at 3:20 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:

> Adam Lindsay wrote:
>> Thomas A.Schmitz said this at Tue, 19 Apr 2005 14:18:55 +0200:
>>> My installation has lost the ability to regenerate formats in the 
>>> latest beta:
>
> yesterdays beta or todays?

That was today's beta, sorry.
>
>> This is being discussed on the dev-context list:
>> <http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/dev-context/2005/000168.html>
>
> Adam: in texexec.pl the cal to ctxtools should be prefixed by 
> texmfstart (texmfstart texexec --make ...)
>
> Hans
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Re: new beta

[Thomas A.Schmitz]

Thanks, Adam. At least some consolation...
On Apr 19, 2005, at 2:43 PM, Adam Lindsay wrote:

> Thomas A.Schmitz said this at Tue, 19 Apr 2005 14:18:55 +0200:
>
>> My installation has lost the ability to regenerate formats in the
>> latest beta:
>
> This is being discussed on the dev-context list:
> <http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/dev-context/2005/000168.html>
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Re: new beta

[Thomas A.Schmitz]

This problem went away with the very latest and greatest. Thanks Hans!
On Apr 19, 2005, at 2:18 PM, Thomas A.Schmitz wrote:

> My installation has lost the ability to regenerate formats in the 
> latest beta:
>
> sudo texexec --make en de nl metafun
>
>  TeXExec 5.3.1 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005
>
>
>         total run time : 1 seconds
>
>
> sudo fmtutil --byfmt cont-en.fmt
> fmtutil: no info for format `cont-en.fmt'.
>
> Clueless???
>
> Thomas
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Re: new beta

[Adam Lindsay]

Thomas A.Schmitz said this at Wed, 20 Apr 2005 12:07:59 +0200:

>This problem went away with the very latest and greatest. Thanks Hans!

Here, too.

I can sit in web2c and build xetex formats that live in the web2c/xetex
directory with the command:

texexec --make --engine --xtx en

So it looks good to me!

cheers,
adam
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Re: new beta

[Hans Hagen]

Adam Lindsay wrote:
> Thomas A.Schmitz said this at Wed, 20 Apr 2005 12:07:59 +0200:
> 
> 
>>This problem went away with the very latest and greatest. Thanks Hans!
> 
> 
> Here, too.
> 
> I can sit in web2c and build xetex formats that live in the web2c/xetex
> directory with the command:
> 
> texexec --make --engine --xtx en

beware, i reverted texex to not use ctxtools due to lack of ruby  -)

does ctxtools --make --engine=xetex

work?

Hans


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