From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/31191 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Mojca Miklavec" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: wiki: debian installation Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 02:02:17 +0200 Message-ID: <6faad9f00610031702w35081171s93bbb3cca02bfd88@mail.gmail.com> References: <452176B5.8090601@nectarine.info> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1159920170 23488 80.91.229.2 (4 Oct 2006 00:02:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 00:02:50 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Wed Oct 04 02:02:47 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GUuDf-0007fr-Lf for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Oct 2006 02:02:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08AC01FE3F; Wed, 4 Oct 2006 02:02:38 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 03558-02; Wed, 4 Oct 2006 02:02:30 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C2511FDD9; Wed, 4 Oct 2006 02:02:30 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE7351FDD9 for ; Wed, 4 Oct 2006 02:02:26 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 03555-02 for ; Wed, 4 Oct 2006 02:02:21 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.228]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id 34E691FDD4 for ; Wed, 4 Oct 2006 02:02:19 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id s12so2170502wxc for ; Tue, 03 Oct 2006 17:02:18 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.90.52.2 with SMTP id z2mr4172558agz; Tue, 03 Oct 2006 17:02:17 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.90.25.15 with HTTP; Tue, 3 Oct 2006 17:02:17 -0700 (PDT) Original-To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" In-Reply-To: <452176B5.8090601@nectarine.info> Content-Disposition: inline X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.7 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:31191 Archived-At: On 10/2/06, plink wrote: Thanks a lot for all the comments! Feel free to edit the wiki if nobody else starts doing so (I have some plans in mind about changing/improving installation pages, but it's only a question of starting it and taking some more time ...). I'm only answering a few of the questions. > Hmm. The texmfstart warning looks familiar, but missing font > files? Strange. Anyway, the pdf-file looks ok, so lets be more > adventurous, and try the second ConTeXt test file from the wiki, > the one with the little red hat: ... > Warning: pdfetex (file /home/myuser/texmf/fonts/map/dvipdfm/ > context/original-base.map): invalid entry for `fmvr8x': font > file missing Some time ago it was a hot topic on the mailing list. See: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Error_Recovery and fix it if possible even if it is working now for some reason. But that page should be less hidden, I admit. > Well, several hours of documentation/wiki grinding later we thought: > lets do it like the ConTeXt gurus and try the texmfstart thing. We > created the two liner /home/myuser/bin/texexec: > > #!/bin/sh > texmfstart texexec.rb --nonstopmode "$@" > > and a link > > ln -s ~/texmf/scripts/context/ruby/texmfstart.rb texmfstart That's the proper way ;) > Heureka - that was it! Umlauts, special chars in typing environments > etc. are fine with the new texexec, even if the system wide format > files are created with the old texexec !?! texexec only calls pdfTeX with proper arguments, so it's pdfTeX version (and version of ConTeXt .tex source files) the one that matters, not really the flavour of texexec. > hth and wel te rusten, > Jak. > > PS: One question remains: > is the texmfstart.rb way now the "official" way of doing ConTeXt on > Linux/Debian these days? Yes. It already is the default under MikTeX 2.5 & with stand-alone ConTeXt, but I have no idea when/if it's going to be the default under teTeX (it's not maintained any more), gwTeX, ... Hopefully it's going to be the default under TeX Live, other distributions usually follow then. > If so, it=B4d better be documented for the > rookies of us somehow/somewhere, if not, something else in the > documentation needs to be fixed. Sure, Installation pages should be more unified. > PPS: No, still no idea who should write all that documentation. Wiki is left to the users (like & including you). Mojca