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From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: no ctx file found
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 22:24:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4766E8F3.7010006@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C826E16D-90FD-485F-AC0B-7DCE70282B2C@science.uva.nl>

Hans van der Meer wrote:
> After starting afresh after an os update and much trouble in getting  
> all those texmf.cnf parameters in order followed by context  
> specialities, I finally managed to get the cont-en.fmt in /usr/local/ 
> texlive/2007/texmf-config/web2c/pdftex/cont-en.fmt.
> 
> But now (running in TeXShop) typesetting will not occur:
> 
> TeXExec | processing document 'test.tex'
> TeXExec | no ctx file found
> TeXExec | tex processing method: context
> TeXExec | TeX run 1
> TeXExec | writing option file test.top
> TeXExec | using randomseed 1100
> TeXExec | tex engine: pdftex
> TeXExec | tex format: cont-en
> This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.40.5 (Web2C 7.5.6)
>   \write18 enabled.
>   %&-line parsing enabled.
>   (/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf/web2c/natural.tcx)
> (Fatal format file error; I'm stymied)
> TeXExec | runtime: 0.601367
> 
> In texmf.cnf I have TEXFORMATS = .;$TEXMF/web2c/{$engine,}// (worked  
> in the past)
> What's wrong here?

remove *all* cont-en.fmt files on your system, maybe there is a lookup 
match lower in the tree; keep in mind that when generating formats, the 
generator has to move the file someplace, while when using the format 
the variable kicks in, so there can be a mismatch

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  reply	other threads:[~2007-12-17 21:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-17 21:15 Hans van der Meer
2007-12-17 21:24 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2007-12-17 22:13   ` Hans van der Meer

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