ConTeXt upgrade blues

* ConTeXt upgrade blues
@ 2006-12-30 22:27 Rolf Marvin Bøe Lindgren
  2006-12-31  1:01 ` Mojca Miklavec
  2006-12-31  1:44 ` Rolf Marvin Bøe Lindgren
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Rolf Marvin Bøe Lindgren @ 2006-12-30 22:27 UTC (permalink / raw)

OK, so the ConTeXt that comes with the TeX distribution I use (until  
eariler today, MacPorts, and as from later today, fink) is ancient.

now, with good old LaTeX that's not much of a problem - just put the  
most recent release in the few relevant places in texmf-local,  
rebuild the formats, and off you go.  with ConTeXt, that's, er, not  
so simple.

the first attempt I made was to pull dowm the most recent version of  
the base files and then run

	sudo texmfstart ctxtools --update

which seemingly worked, pulled the updates to texmf-local, and  
complied with no error messages.  however, the new ConTeXt failed to  
compile documents, giving lots of error messages about undefined  
commands.

	texexec test.tex (which used to work) gives

mktextfm: `mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode;  
input ec-lmr12' failed to make ec-lmr12.tfm.
kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log.
! Font \*12ptrmtfrm*=ec-lmr12 not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not found.

	ruby `kpsewhich --format=texmfscripts texmfstart.rb` texexec test  
(which is in essence what the recommended shell script does) gives

ConTeXt  ver: 2005.01.31  fmt: 2006.12.30  int: english  mes: english

language        : language en is active
<protectionstate 0>
system          : cont-new loaded
(/sw/share/texmf-local/tex/context/base/cont-new.tex
! Undefined control sequence.
l.16 \newcontextversion
                        {2006.12.27 11:34}

now, according to several web pages, ec-lmr12 can be found on  
pragma's web, but it's not there.

any suggestions?

-- 
Rolf Lindgren
roffe@extern.uio.no

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