Re: TL2005 perl problems [was: Re: Struggling with Old Style numerals!]

["G.C.H.M. Verhaag" <verhaaggchm@ision.nl>]

Hans Hagen wrote:

>Adam Lindsay wrote:
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>>G.C.H.M. Verhaag wrote:
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>>>I've removed that one and installed TeXLive 2005! I was afraid of other 
>>>problems, and indeed that's exactly what happened.
>>>...
>>>The Perl script texexec doesn't launch!! I get the following Perl error 
>>>message:
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>>>Can't locate Digest/MD5.pm in @INC (@INC contains: 
>>>/usr/local/lib/perl/5.6.1 /usr/local/share/perl/5.6.1 /usr/lib/perl5 
>>>/usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.6.1 /usr/share/perl/5.6.1 
>>>/usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at 
>>>/usr/local/texlive/2005/texmf-dist/scripts/context/perl/texexec.pl line 54.
>>>BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at 
>>>/usr/local/texlive/2005/texmf-dist/scripts/context/perl/texexec.pl line 54.
>>>
>>>This missing MD5.pm is present in the directory: 
>>>/usr/local/texlive/2005/xemtex/perl/lib
>>>
>>>So what should be my next move?
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>>I don't use TeXLive anymore, so I don't know. Sounds like a problem 
>>someone on the list has encountered, though!
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>normally this points to a conflict between an installed perl and one in 
>tex live (the windows version ships with a perl dll);
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>- if you have installed perl, remove the instance in tex live
>- updating your installed perl may also help
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>Hans
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Dear Hans & Adam,

Thanks!

It was indeed my installation of perl on my Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 "Woody" 
rev2 that was simply incomplete! After having installed the Digest 
module texexec did run!

Adam. after having solved the problem with Perl, your hints to use 
oldfigures in combination with the Latin Modern font worked with TeXLive 
2005!

A do have a final question about fonts in ConTeXt. Most of the time it 
suffices to use the pre-defined typefaces that come with ConTeXt, but 
what if one wants to alter them slightly? Well, one can try reading the 
manual Fonts in ConTeXt and TeXfont Explained! But to me those manuals 
are too difficult to read. So perhaps I should refrain from considering 
to modify typefaces and leave that to the experts. But I'd like to 
understand a bit more about the fonts stuff in ConTeXt.

Maybe a very, very basic description of typescripts, fonts and typefaces 
will do a good job for the less advanced ConTeXt users?

Regards,
    Gerard

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