Thanks, Mojca.

With .bash_profile now reading . /Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/setuptex, I ran texexec --make --all successfully. But I still could not process a .tex file: the error message was

This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.10 (Web2C 2009)
 \write18 enabled.
 (/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-context/web2c/natural.tcx)

kpathsea: Running mktexfmt cont-en.fmt
mktexfmt: No such file or directory
I can't find the format file `cont-en.fmt'!
TeXExec | runtime: 0.21928

So I removed texmf-osx-intel from /ConTeXtMinimals/tex/. re-ran texexec --make --all. The error message is now

texexec: Command not found.

Alan

On Dec 2, 2009, at 03;13,46 , Mojca Miklavec wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 17:13, Bowen Alan C. wrote:
>> Mocja—
>> I see that I have two texexecs in my Minimals now:
>> one in
>> ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-osx-intel/bin
>> the other in
>> ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-osx-64/bin
>> Which one is the right one?
> 
> The second one.
> 
>> I should add that when my .bash_profile has
>> . /Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/setuptex
>> /Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/
>> I cannot compile any file because of the mismatch between format and base
>> files.
> 
> This is because you need to regenerate the formats (texexec --make
> --all). Please send the log if this fails to help.
> 
>> If I change my .bash_profile to
>> . /Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/setuptex
>> /Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-osx-64/bin
>> as suggested in
> 
> No, that's not been suggested. You may not use the second argument
> that way. If you read carefully again you'll see that there are **two
> different recipes**. You need to use just one of them.
> 
>> When you want to use context, you need to initialize the tree by typing:
> 
> [first recipe]
>>  . /Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/setuptex
>> in your shell or add
> 
> [second recipe]
>>  "/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-osx-64/bin"
>> to PATH variable if you want to set it permanently.
>> This can usually be done in .bashrc, .bash_profile
>> (or whatever file is used to initialize your shell).
> 
>> I get the error message
>> The argument "/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-osx-64/bin" is not a
>> valid TEXROOT path.
>> (There is no file
>> "/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-osx-64/bin/texmf/tex/plain/base/plain.tex")
> 
> Yes, that makes sense. Since
> /Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-osx-64/bin is NOT the root of
> distribution. That's just the PATH to your binaries.
> 
> Just go with the first approach (the one that reports mismatching
> formats at the moment), run
>    texexec --make --all
> and send the log if it fails to work.
> 
> Mojca
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