Re: New Installation under miktex, not working

[Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com>]

Todd DeVries wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm attempting to install context under miktex 2.4. I've updated the
> format files and followed other instructions as per the contextgarden
> discussions. I'm probably missing something really obvious and would
> appreciate any help offered.  I receive this output when running the
> following commands:

I don't know why I keep using MikTeX (there are problems all the time,
but it is [or at least it should be] easy to update and is already
installed on most computers here), just some points:
- texexec --make --all doesn't work anyway (well, it works, but it
forgets to copy the files to the proper place)
If you want to make formats, go to MikTeX options -> TeX formats ->
choose cont-en -> Edit ...
Here are the values that I have (it may be that I changed any of them
manually, I don't remember):
Format Name: cont-en
Compiler: pdfe-TeX (Extended Mode)
Input File Name: cont-en.tex
Output File Name: cont-en.efmt
Exclude has to be unchecked

- MikTeX updates the formats automatically (if it does). If it
doesn't, the "standard ConTeXt" ways fail anyway and searching for
files doesn't always work either
- I often have problems after upgrading ConTeXt, but I can hardly tell
you what to do. I try all the different tricks (updating filename
database, building the formats, ...) without any success, but after
two days it simply works again by some black magic.

> <<
> texexec test.txt
>
>  TeXExec 5.4.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005
>
> unknown file type: texmfscripts
>  fixing texformat path : C:/localtexmf/miktex/fmt
> fixing engine variable : pdfetex
>
>         total run time : 0 seconds
> >>

That's the output that I get if the file doesn't exist.

Can you make a file "test.tex" (not txt) and try to compile that one?
Send the new report then (if there are any differences of course).

> texexec --version
> and
> <<
>  TeXExec 5.4.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005
>
> unknown file type: texmfscripts
>                texexec : TeXExec 5.4.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE
> 1997-2005
>                texutil : TeXUtil 9.0.0 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE
> 1992-2004
>                    tex : pdfeTeX, 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (MiKTeX 2.4)
> (preloaded format=cont-en 2006.1.15)  15 JAN 2006 11:32
>                context : ver: 2006.01.09
>                cont-en : ver: 2006.01.09  fmt: 2006.1.15  mes: english
> unknown file type: 'fmt'
> unknown file type: 'fmt'
> unknown file type: 'fmt'
> unknown file type: 'fmt'
> unknown file type: 'fmt'
> unknown file type: 'fmt'
> unknown file type: 'fmt'
> unknown file type: 'fmt'
>
>         total run time : 1 seconds

I also get this output since December (I thought that ConTeXt was
broken at first), but it is harmless and compiling the documents
nevertheless works. Perhaps that extensive use of "unknown file type:
'fmt'" is the new Taco's inclusion that Hans mentioned in some other
mail ;) "unknown file type: texmfscripts" should also be harmless and
will disapear once MikTeX starts to support the new pdfTeX (if I
understood correctly).

Mojca