From: Giuseppe Bilotta <gip.bilotta@iol.it>
Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re[3]: What has become of X-Desc?
Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2002 23:48:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <618772132.20020728234839@iol.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <154339375.20020728222534@beeger.net>
Sunday, July 28, 2002 Robert F. Beeger wrote:
RFB> Hello Giuseppe,
RFB> Sunday, July 28, 2002, 7:18:39 PM, you wrote:
GB>> Ok, I just forgot to upload the new version when I was done ...
GB>> it's there now :)
RFB> Thanks! But (there's always a but :) ) it does not seem to work for
RFB> me.
RFB> I copied the files in the zip to my texmf-dir and copied xdesc.pm also
RFB> to my TexLive/bin/win32-dir.
RFB> In my tex-file I have :
RFB> \starttemplate[epigraph][normal]
RFB> \setupframedtexts[frame=off,
RFB> leftframe=on,
RFB> rightframe=on,
RFB> rulethickness=2pt,
RFB> framecolor=darkgreen,
RFB> backgroundcolor=lightgray,
RFB> align=right,
RFB> width=13cm]
RFB> \startframedtext[right]
RFB> {\ix
RFB> {\sl \getslot{content}}
RFB> \blank
RFB> \rightaligned{--- \getslot{author} : {\sl \getslot{work}}}}
RFB> \stopframedtext
RFB> \stoptemplate
RFB> \selecttemplate[epigraph][normal]
RFB> \epigraph[button][author={James Blish}, work={Cities in Flight}]
RFB> {\language[en] He touched the button over his heart. Creation began}
RFB> Now pdfetex complains:
[snip]
RFB> ! Undefined control sequence.
RFB> l.81 \epigraph
RFB> [button][author={James Blish}, work={Cities in Flight}]
RFB> ?
Did you give a
\defineextendeddescription[epigraph][epigraphs][author,work]
before that?
Does it work with \startepigraph ... \stopepigraph?
RFB> I found out that the modules that come bundled with ConTeXt are
RFB> referenced like so
RFB> use cont_set ;
RFB> So I thought xdesc.pm probably needs to be included in a similar way.
RFB> When I put a use xdesc; into texutil.pl it had no effect. When I put
RFB> it into texexec.pl, Perl complained :
RFB> Can't locate xdesc.pm in @INC (@INC contains: D:/Perl/lib D:/Perl/site/lib .) at
RFB> d:\TeXLive\bin\win32\texexec.pl line 39.
RFB> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at d:\TeXLive\bin\win32\texexec.pl line 39.
RFB> I put xdesc.pm in D:/Perl/lib and had again the situation from the
RFB> beginning.
There is no need to patch texutil. It should automatically load
the modules. The error occurs before texexec can get to the second
pass, it's a TeX-side problem.
--
Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-07-28 21:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-28 10:39 Robert F. Beeger
2002-07-28 17:18 ` Giuseppe Bilotta
2002-07-28 20:25 ` Re[2]: " Robert F. Beeger
2002-07-28 21:48 ` Giuseppe Bilotta [this message]
2002-07-28 22:03 ` Re[4]: " Robert F. Beeger
2002-07-29 8:26 ` Re[5]: " Giuseppe Bilotta
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