Re: ConTeXt Minimals on Mac

[Alan Bowen <acbowen@princeton.edu>]

Charles,

I ran the last command (for “typical”) but now, when I try to typeset
\starttext
Hello World!
\stoptext
it appears that there is a “context” folder missing in the minimals  
that I downloaded. That is, I get

/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/setuptex: line 75: cd: /Applications/ 
ConTeXtMinimals/context: No such file or directory
The argument "" is not a valid TEXROOT path.
There is no file "/texmf/tex/plain/base/plain.tex"
provide a proper tex root (like '. setuptex /something/tex')
TeXExec | processing document 'hello.tex'
TeXExec | no ctx file found
TeXExec | tex processing method: context
TeXExec | TeX run 1
TeXExec | writing option file hello.top
TeXExec | using randomseed 1013
TeXExec | tex engine: pdftex
TeXExec | tex format: cont-en
This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6)
  %&-line parsing enabled.
  (/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf/web2c/natural.tcx)
entering extended mode
(./hello.tex

which indicates that Texlive 2007 was used.

Alan

Note: the text of ConTeXtMinimals.engine reads

#!/bin/bash
source /Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/setuptex /Applications/ 
ConTeXtMinimals/context/tex
texexec "$1"

On Aug 23, 2008, at 12;20,09 , Charles P. Schaum wrote:

> Open Applications/Utilities/Terminal from the finder
>
> Type (or cut n paste from Mail/Entourage) and don't put a carriage
> return between these lines (they are wrapped automatically)
>
> chmod a+x
> Users/alancbowen/Library/TeXShop/Engines/ConTeXtMinimals.engine
>
> If that fails - and it should not - try:
>
> sudo chmod a+x
> Users/alancbowen/Library/TeXShop/Engines/ConTeXtMinimals.engine
>
>
> You can substitute:
>
> chmod a+x ~/Library/TeXShop/Engines/ConTeXtMinimals.engine
>
> for the above path, and you can opt to do
>
> chmod u+x ~/Library/TeXShop/Engines/ConTeXtMinimals.engine
>
> when only you should execute it or
>
> chmod g+x ~/Library/TeXShop/Engines/ConTeXtMinimals.engine
>
> if anyone in your group can execute it
>
> or you can be "typical" and say
>
> chmod 775 ~/Library/TeXShop/Engines/ConTeXtMinimals.engine
>
> and that will make everyone executable and you/your group read- 
> writable.
> Since you are using UNIX (as Mac OS X proudly touts) you might want to
> snag a reference on shell scripting and basic UNIX commands. Welcome  
> to
> the world beyond Aqua.
>
> That should do it.
>
> Charles
>
> On Sat, 2008-08-23 at 09:23 -0400, Alan Bowen wrote:
>> I have installed the Context Minimals following the newbie
>> instructions on the wiki at contextgarden for Mac users.
>>
>>
>> The instructions themselves are clear but should perhaps be updated:
>> • the file originally downloaded is first-setup.sh not
>> first-setup.tsh
>> • to execute this file run ./first-setup.sh not first-setup.sh (at
>> least, the former worked and did not return a “command not found”
>> message).
>>
>>
>> I also configured TeXShop as instructed. But now when I try to  
>> typeset
>> a file, I get the error message:
>> Users/alancbowen/Library/TeXShop/Engines/ConTeXtMinimals.engine does
>> not have the executable bit set.
>>
>>
>> How can I fix this?
>>
>>
>> Alan
>>
>>
>> Note:  I am running Mac OS X 10.5.4.
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