Building ConTeXt format in teTeX and Mac OS X

Building ConTeXt format in teTeX and Mac OS X

[flip phillips]

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Greetings-

Having a few weeeeee problems w/ getting ConTeXt built in my current 
environment, and the symptoms are, to say the least, interesting.

Background-
1) MacOSX's distribution of teTeX comes with an older version of ConTeXt 
installed, some time around April of last year i believe.

2) I needed some of the font support from the more recent distributions 
(\usemodule[fnt-01], which isn't in the distribution that comes w/ the 
current teTeX on MacOSX)

3) So, I d/l the latest (and beta) versions of ConTeXt. Do the usual 
voodoo, unzip into the texmf world, etc (as per the install manual)

4) go to build the format using fmtutil-

5) With the beta distribution the format build fails at:

(/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/tex/context/base/context.tex
! I can't find file `syst-pln.tex'.
l.34 \input syst-pln.tex

6) it -is- there.... in the release distribution I get the same only it 
is at "\input spec-def.tex" which is also present and accounted for, vis:

[flip.skidmore.edu] % ls -l syst-pln.tex
-rw-r--r--  1 root  admin  17949 Nov 17 16:51 syst-pln.tex

Now, I see them the files there, alas, the format builder isn't seeing 
them. Anyone have any experience with this? Tried all of the usual 
mundane voodoo, invisible characters, commented out in context.tex prior 
to those includes, etc...

Baffling... clues?

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flip phillips phd
http://www.skidmore.edu/~flip/

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Greetings-

Having a few weeeeee problems w/ getting ConTeXt built in my current
environment, and the symptoms are, to say the least, interesting. 

Background- 

1) MacOSX's distribution of teTeX comes with an older version of
ConTeXt installed, some time around April of last year i believe.

2) I needed some of the font support from the more recent
distributions (\usemodule[fnt-01], which isn't in the distribution
that comes w/ the current teTeX on MacOSX)

3) So, I d/l the latest (and beta) versions of ConTeXt. Do the usual
voodoo, unzip into the texmf world, etc (as per the install manual)

4) go to build the format using fmtutil-

5) With the beta distribution the format build fails at:

(/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/tex/context/base/context.tex

! I can't find file `syst-pln.tex'.

l.34 \input syst-pln.tex 

6) it -is- there.... in the release distribution I get the same only
it is at "\input spec-def.tex" which is also present and accounted
for, vis:

[flip.skidmore.edu] % ls -l syst-pln.tex

-rw-r--r--  1 root  admin  17949 Nov 17 16:51 syst-pln.tex

Now, I <italic>see</italic> them the files there, alas, the format
builder isn't seeing them. Anyone have any experience with this? Tried
all of the usual mundane voodoo, invisible characters, commented out
in context.tex prior to those includes, etc...

Baffling... clues? 

-- 

flip phillips phd

http://www.skidmore.edu/~flip/

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Re: Building ConTeXt format in teTeX and Mac OS X

[flip phillips]

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OK- figured it out- sorry! There was a problem w/ the hashed ls-R files 
(I should have known)... I didn't look at the logs closely enough to 
notice that the permissions were messed up on them when I went to 
regenerate- DOH!

Of course, now, with some newly converted fonts I'm getting an 
"Arithmetic Overflow" when I try to use them in the generated TeXfont 
document, so my woes aren't entirely over yet... but I'm getting 
closer :)

On Sunday, January 13, 2002, at 04:36  PM, flip phillips wrote:

> Greetings-
>
> Having a few weeeeee problems w/ getting ConTeXt built in my current 
> environment, and the symptoms are, to say the least, interesting.
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flip phillips phd
http://www.skidmore.edu/~flip/
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Re: Building ConTeXt format in teTeX and Mac OS X

[Hans Hagen]

At 04:36 PM 1/13/2002 -0500, flip phillips wrote:

it seems that you did not run mktexlsr (this is a program that generates 
the tex filename database); the files that you mention are the context 
replacement for plain tex and a faster special driver.

Hans
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