Re: Miktex, Metapost and \loadfontfilesoncetrue

[WN <wneimeijer01@cs.com>]

Apologies for not replying to earlier emails. To be honest
it is sometimes difficult to keep track of the threads
and especially to whom the emails are directed.

I was/am busy in doing a lot of the Latex -> Context conversions
with a small perl script and this consumes a lot of my time.
Perhaps I should make this perl script public, as more people are making
the switch to Context, however my perl programming skills
are not that good, just a beginner. If someone is interested,
just write an email and I will send you a copy.

I will certainly try to follow and implement your suggetions
and I will try to give you feedback.

Thanks for your time/help
Kind regards

Wim

mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com wrote:

> On 3/28/06, WN wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am using Miktex (latest updated version) and the latest
>> Context on WindowsXP (write18 enabled).
>>
>> This is what happens :
>>
>> 1) First run of texexec gives me
>> ! Undefined control sequence
>> l 1 \global \loadfontfileoncetrue
>>     
>
> On 3/31/06, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
>   
>> For the original problem, I guess Mojca is closest to the
>> actual problem. She herself has a continuing fight with
>> btex/etex and textext(). If you can, you should try to post
>> a 'recipe': make a minimal example in a clean directory,
>> post that here along with what commands to run, and all
>> of the results (logs, temp files) you get.
>>     
>
> The perl script (texexec.pl) has some difficulties (sometimes the
> problem with wrong format loding appears and sometimes not), but since
> the ruby script is supposed to replace it anyway it doesn't really
> make sense to lose time fixing old stuff.
>
> Hans has just fixed the behaviour of newtexexec.rb, so I would suggest
> you to do the following:
>
> 1. create a file texexec.bat with the following content:
>     texmfstart newtexexec.rb %*
> and place that file to some arbitrary folder in PATH (but has to be in
> front of MikTeX in PATH). So that after you type "texexec",
> "texmfstart newtexexec.rb" will be executed.
> You might have to download "texmfstart" if you don't have it yet
> (cont-win.zip from pragma website, simply drop it into MikTeX bin
> folder for example).
>
> You may also try to politely ask the maintainer of MikTeX to include
> the texmfstart.exe into MikTeX by default (the more users ask for it,
> the more likely will be that he'll do that).
>
> 2. wait until Hans uploads the new beta & extract the content from
> cont-tfm.zip into the MikTeX tree (to the proper place); I guess that
> it should be enough if you only replace the content of /scripts/ruby/*
> (Theoretically you can also wait for update in MikTeX, but that would
> definitely take much longer.)
>
>
> Then cross your fingers and try to compile your file again!
>
> Mojca
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