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From: Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Mk IV setup, \showcharacters
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 09:07:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AD81B99.10002@elvenkind.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b39d28b00910151305v270d8515t744f73f9be159fcd@mail.gmail.com>


Hi,

Peter Park Nelson wrote:
> Hello, I'm a LaTeX user trying to move to ConTeXt Mk IV. I'm having
> trouble configuring my system on OS X. As a complete ConTeXt novice I'm
> not sure how to debug this, but I really want to get Mk IV working for
> some upcoming journal and book projects. Any suggestions would be
> appreciated.
> 
> I understand that the current MacTeX/TeXLive 2009 testing versions have
> a broken Mk IV due to an old Luatex, so I installed MacTeX 2009 for
> testing and then upgraded Luatex to version 0.43 using the Contextgarden
> instructions for "Running Mark IV",  regenerating the Context formats
> etc. using:
> "luatools --generate"
> "context --make --all"
> "context --make cont-en" 
> (is this necessary if I do --make --all?)

No, you can do without.

> So far I can run a minimal test document and get pdf output, but I can't
> use \showaccents, \showcharacters, etc. -- I get an "undefined control
> sequence" error, The console output is below. I see the last line is
> referring to a .mkii file, I suspect that's the problem but I don't know
> how to get it to .mkiv...

You've got a working installation. These exact commands just happen to
be undefined in mkiv.

Best wishes,
Taco
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2009-10-15 20:05 Peter Park Nelson
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