Re: Fptex Installation (Blues continue)

Re: Fptex Installation (Blues continue)

[Hans Hagen]

At 05:15 AM 3/17/2002 +0530, you wrote:
>Well, my problem is (perhaps) similar to the one posted earlier today. I
>have installed tetex (Cygwin). When I run texexec on a file (say
>new.tex) I get the following output
>
>  TeXExec 2.1 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2000
>
>              executable : pdfetex
>                  format : cont-en
>               inputfile : new
>                  output : standard
>               interface : en
>             current mode : all
>                    TeX run : 1
>
>cont-en: not found
>
>               run time : 1 seconds
>[05:14:42][d:/abhi/mydoc/context]>lstat(./pdfetex) failed ...
>./pdfetex: No such file or directory
>This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-14f-released-20000525-2.1 (Web2C 7.3.3)
>**
>!  End of file on the terminal...  why?
>
>Can somebody explain what does "lstat(./pdfetex) failed ..." means.
>Also the last statement " ! End of file on the terminal... why?",

(1) download the latest version 1.0 of pdftex

(2) say: texexec --make --alone

(if needed get the latest beta version of context, which has a more recent 
texexec)

Hans

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Re: Fptex Installation (Blues continue)

[Abhishek Seth]

Thank you Hans. I had meanwhile installed TexLive, and then installed
the new version of pdftex. However the problem is now that (like what
earlier Samuel Lacas had complained) I get (2)(2)(2) kind of pattern at
the first page of the document. Apparently he complains this for MikTex,
while my current installation is TexLive.

On Sun, 17 Mar 2002, Hans Hagen wrote:

> At 05:15 AM 3/17/2002 +0530, you wrote:
> >Well, my problem is (perhaps) similar to the one posted earlier today. I
> >have installed tetex (Cygwin). When I run texexec on a file (say
> >new.tex) I get the following output
> >
> >  TeXExec 2.1 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2000
> >
> >              executable : pdfetex
> >                  format : cont-en
> >               inputfile : new
> >                  output : standard
> >               interface : en
> >             current mode : all
> >                    TeX run : 1
> >
> >cont-en: not found
> >
> >               run time : 1 seconds
> >[05:14:42][d:/abhi/mydoc/context]>lstat(./pdfetex) failed ...
> >./pdfetex: No such file or directory
> >This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-14f-released-20000525-2.1 (Web2C 7.3.3)
> >**
> >!  End of file on the terminal...  why?
> >
> >Can somebody explain what does "lstat(./pdfetex) failed ..." means.
> >Also the last statement " ! End of file on the terminal... why?",
>
> (1) download the latest version 1.0 of pdftex
>
> (2) say: texexec --make --alone
>
> (if needed get the latest beta version of context, which has a more recent
> texexec)
>
> Hans
>
>
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Re: Fptex Installation (Blues continue)

[Abhishek Seth]

Well, installed latest the beta version, and repeated the whole
exercise. Seems to have alleviated the problem. Please ignore my earlier
mail. Thanks for the help. :-)

On Sun, 17 Mar 2002, Hans Hagen wrote:

> At 05:15 AM 3/17/2002 +0530, you wrote:
> >Well, my problem is (perhaps) similar to the one posted earlier today. I
> >have installed tetex (Cygwin). When I run texexec on a file (say
> >new.tex) I get the following output
> >
> >  TeXExec 2.1 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2000
> >
> >              executable : pdfetex
> >                  format : cont-en
> >               inputfile : new
> >                  output : standard
> >               interface : en
> >             current mode : all
> >                    TeX run : 1
> >
> >cont-en: not found
> >
> >               run time : 1 seconds
> >[05:14:42][d:/abhi/mydoc/context]>lstat(./pdfetex) failed ...
> >./pdfetex: No such file or directory
> >This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-14f-released-20000525-2.1 (Web2C 7.3.3)
> >**
> >!  End of file on the terminal...  why?
> >
> >Can somebody explain what does "lstat(./pdfetex) failed ..." means.
> >Also the last statement " ! End of file on the terminal... why?",
>
> (1) download the latest version 1.0 of pdftex
>
> (2) say: texexec --make --alone
>
> (if needed get the latest beta version of context, which has a more recent
> texexec)
>
> Hans
>
>
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Re: Fptex Installation (Blues continue)

[Hans Hagen]

At 02:57 PM 3/18/2002 +0530, Abhishek Seth wrote:
>Thank you Hans. I had meanwhile installed TexLive, and then installed
>the new version of pdftex. However the problem is now that (like what
>earlier Samuel Lacas had complained) I get (2)(2)(2) kind of pattern at
>the first page of the document. Apparently he complains this for MikTex,
>while my current installation is TexLive.

Can you do a grep on the context base path for "(2)"  and see if there is 
an uncomented one?

Hans
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Re: Fptex Installation (Blues continue)

[Abhishek Seth]

On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Hans Hagen wrote:

> At 02:57 PM 3/18/2002 +0530, Abhishek Seth wrote:
> >Thank you Hans. I had meanwhile installed TexLive, and then installed
> >the new version of pdftex. However the problem is now that (like what
> >earlier Samuel Lacas had complained) I get (2)(2)(2) kind of pattern at
> >the first page of the document. Apparently he complains this for MikTex,
> >while my current installation is TexLive.
>
> Can you do a grep on the context base path for "(2)"  and see if there is
> an uncomented one?
>
> Hans

Did that, negative results, As I had suggested Samuel with texexec --runs=1
the pattern doen't appear.

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Re: Fptex Installation (Blues continue)

[Hans Hagen]

At 05:05 PM 3/18/2002 +0530, Abhishek Seth wrote:
>On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Hans Hagen wrote:
>
> > At 02:57 PM 3/18/2002 +0530, Abhishek Seth wrote:
> > >Thank you Hans. I had meanwhile installed TexLive, and then installed
> > >the new version of pdftex. However the problem is now that (like what
> > >earlier Samuel Lacas had complained) I get (2)(2)(2) kind of pattern at
> > >the first page of the document. Apparently he complains this for MikTex,
> > >while my current installation is TexLive.
> >
> > Can you do a grep on the context base path for "(2)"  and see if there is
> > an uncomented one?
> >
> > Hans
>
>Did that, negative results, As I had suggested Samuel with texexec --runs=1
>the pattern doen't appear.

so, then can you do a normal run (no --runs flag) and see if there's a (2) 
in the <jobname>.tuo file?

Hans

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Re: Fptex Installation (Blues continue)

[Taco Hoekwater]

On Mon, 18 Mar 2002 17:05:13 +0530 (IST)
"Abhishek Seth" <abhi@aero.iisc.ernet.in> wrote:

> On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Hans Hagen wrote:
> 
> > At 02:57 PM 3/18/2002 +0530, Abhishek Seth wrote:
> > >Thank you Hans. I had meanwhile installed TexLive, and then installed
> > >the new version of pdftex. However the problem is now that (like what
> > >earlier Samuel Lacas had complained) I get (2)(2)(2) kind of pattern at

This is very technical, but it looks to me like a file open:
	"open paren" filename "close paren" 
like you would normally get as well, except that it isn't referring to a file
name but to a file number. I know it sounds *really* weird, but it might be a 
broken dll in your windows installation (I've seen this happen with a commercial
distribution before).

-- 
groeten,

Taco

Re: Fptex Installation (Blues continue)

[Samuel Lacas]

Abhishek Seth a écrit 0.8K le Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 05:05:13PM +0530:
# On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Hans Hagen wrote:
# 
# > At 02:57 PM 3/18/2002 +0530, Abhishek Seth wrote:
# > >earlier Samuel Lacas had complained) I get (2)(2)(2) kind of pattern at
# > >the first page of the document. Apparently he complains this for MikTex,
# > >while my current installation is TexLive.
# 
# Did that, negative results, As I had suggested Samuel with texexec --runs=1
# the pattern doen't appear.

Hi,

Alas, even vith "texexec --runs=1", I still get the two's... I agree
with Hans, it feels like something rotten in my DLL kingdom :).

sL

Re: Fptex Installation (Blues continue)

[Abhishek Seth]

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On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Samuel Lacas wrote:

> Abhishek Seth a écrit 0.8K le Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 05:05:13PM +0530:
> # On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Hans Hagen wrote:
> #
> # > At 02:57 PM 3/18/2002 +0530, Abhishek Seth wrote:
> # > >earlier Samuel Lacas had complained) I get (2)(2)(2) kind of pattern at
> # > >the first page of the document. Apparently he complains this for MikTex,
> # > >while my current installation is TexLive.
> #
> # Did that, negative results, As I had suggested Samuel with texexec --runs=1
> # the pattern doen't appear.
>
> Hi,
>
> Alas, even vith "texexec --runs=1", I still get the two's... I agree
> with Hans, it feels like something rotten in my DLL kingdom :).
>
> sL
>
Did you delete 'file.tuo' before running texexec --runs=1 file.tex?

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Re: Fptex Installation (Blues continue)

[Samuel Lacas]

Abhishek Seth a écrit 1.0K le Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 04:24:38PM +0530:
# On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Samuel Lacas wrote:
# 
# > Alas, even vith "texexec --runs=1", I still get the two's... I agree
# > with Hans, it feels like something rotten in my DLL kingdom :).
# >
# Did you delete 'file.tuo' before running texexec --runs=1 file.tex?
# 

Hmm...No, I did not. But if I do, running texexec --runs=1 file.tex
produces nothing (No pages of output). Running "free", I get three
runs, two being necessary to produce my DVI file.

BTW, my file consists only of "\starttext\stoptext", which is strange
that it would need three runs, though I am not yet very accustomed to
ConTeXt...

Thanks anyway for your help,

sL

Re: Fptex Installation (Blues continue)

[Abhishek Seth]

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On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Samuel Lacas wrote:

> Abhishek Seth a écrit 1.0K le Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 04:24:38PM +0530:
> # On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Samuel Lacas wrote:
> #
> # > Alas, even vith "texexec --runs=1", I still get the two's... I agree
> # > with Hans, it feels like something rotten in my DLL kingdom :).
> # >
> # Did you delete 'file.tuo' before running texexec --runs=1 file.tex?
> #
>
> Hmm...No, I did not. But if I do, running texexec --runs=1 file.tex
> produces nothing (No pages of output). Running "free", I get three
> runs, two being necessary to produce my DVI file.
>
> BTW, my file consists only of "\starttext\stoptext", which is strange
> that it would need three runs, though I am not yet very accustomed to
> ConTeXt...
>
> Thanks anyway for your help,
>
> sL
>

Indeed so, with \starttext\stoptext, I too don't get any output with
single run. However if the file has some text then it works. Any clues
anybody? I have not followed the earlier suggestion about broken DLLS.
How to fix them?

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Re: Fptex Installation (Blues continue)

[Daniel Joyce]

> Indeed so, with \starttext\stoptext, I too don't get any output with
> single run. However if the file has some text then it works. Any clues
> anybody? I have not followed the earlier suggestion about broken DLLS.
> How to fix them?

	That seems to be the default behaviour for Context. Why generate a 
document with no text in it?  <:)

	Just add something like FOOBAR, and you'll get output... <:)

	Daniel

Programmatic Conditional Text

[Daniel Joyce]

Is there some way to do conditional text in Context or Raw tex?

I am writing a coverletter template, and defining custom commands.

Nils Bohr   
Human Resources 
Yoyodyne Inc.
300 Foo Rd,
New Fenwickle, NJ, 55555

	Dear Nihls Bohr:

vs where there is no contact person

Human Resources     
Yoyodyne Inc.
300 Foo Rd,
New Fenwickle, NJ, 5555

	Dear Sir or Madam:

 Is there anyway to test for empty strings, and write stuff like this?

	Daniel Joyce

Re: Programmatic Conditional Text

[Daniel Pittman]

On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, Daniel Joyce wrote:
> Is there some way to do conditional text in Context or Raw tex?
> I am writing a coverletter template, and defining custom commands.

[...]

> vs where there is no contact person

[...]

>  Is there anyway to test for empty strings, and write stuff like this?

\def\DoIfEmptyElse#1#2#2{\def\localTest{}\ifx#1\localTest{#2}\else{#3}\fi}

That structure has worked for me in the past. I am curious to know if
there is a better solution, though.
        Daniel

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Re: Programmatic Conditional Text

[Hans Hagen]

At 12:08 AM 3/20/2002 -0600, you wrote:
>Is there some way to do conditional text in Context or Raw tex?

\startmode[blabla]
some code
\stopmode

\enablemode[blabla]

\doifmodeelse{blabla}{...}{...}

>I am writing a coverletter template, and defining custom commands.
>
>Nils Bohr
>Human Resources
>Yoyodyne Inc.
>300 Foo Rd,
>New Fenwickle, NJ, 55555
>
>         Dear Nihls Bohr:
>
>vs where there is no contact person
>
>Human Resources
>Yoyodyne Inc.
>300 Foo Rd,
>New Fenwickle, NJ, 5555
>
>         Dear Sir or Madam:
>
>  Is there anyway to test for empty strings, and write stuff like this?

\doifelse{this}{that}{equal}{not equal}

there's a lot more like this (see cont-sys.tex or texexec --modu --pdf 
cont-sys.tex)

Hans
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Re: Fptex Installation (Blues continue)

[Samuel Lacas]

Hello,

Indeed, the extra 2's were caused by the "^M" chars in the "tuo" file.
Being not a perl-litterate person, I cannot fix the problem myself,
but I found (thanks Google) that a possible answer would be to add
"binmode THING" somewhere in texexec.pl, where THING is the file
handle of the "tuo" file. 

Hope this helps,

sL

Fptex Installation (Blues continue)

[Abhishek Seth]

Well, my problem is (perhaps) similar to the one posted earlier today. I
have installed tetex (Cygwin). When I run texexec on a file (say
new.tex) I get the following output

 TeXExec 2.1 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2000

             executable : pdfetex
                 format : cont-en
              inputfile : new
                 output : standard
              interface : en
            current mode : all
	           TeX run : 1

cont-en: not found

              run time : 1 seconds
[05:14:42][d:/abhi/mydoc/context]>lstat(./pdfetex) failed ...
./pdfetex: No such file or directory
This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-14f-released-20000525-2.1 (Web2C 7.3.3)
**
!  End of file on the terminal...  why?

Can somebody explain what does "lstat(./pdfetex) failed ..." means.
Also the last statement " ! End of file on the terminal... why?",

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