At Mon, 27 Sep 2010 14:27:36 -0400 (EDT),
Aditya Mahajan wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 27 Sep 2010, Marko Schütz Schmuck wrote:
> 
> > Dear Aditya,
> >
> > At Fri, 24 Sep 2010 11:21:01 -0400 (EDT),
> > Aditya Mahajan wrote:
> >>
> >> On Fri, 24 Sep 2010, Marko Schütz Schmuck wrote:
> >>
> >>> Dear All,
> >>>
> >>> I only very recently updated from
> >>>
> >>> ConTeXt  ver: 2005.01.31
> >>>
> >>> to
> >>>
> >>> ConTeXt  ver: 2009.08.19 17:10 MKII
> >>>
> >>> Previously, using env-assign.tex as described in a 2006 PracTeX
> >>> article worked fine. With the new version the drop shadow box is not
> >>> rendered.
> >>
> >> Do you have write18 enabled (It is disabled by default on most
> >> distributions). See http://wiki.contextgarden.net/write18
> >
> > the setting was
> >
> > shell_escape = p
> >
> > and mpost was listed in the permissible commands. I changed it to
> >
> > shell_escape = 1
> 
> That should be t (tee) rather than 1 (one)
> 
>    shell_escape = t

I tried both (btw. the comment just before the option calls for 1),
but without the desired result.

> > and rebuilt formats. This did not fix my issue.
> 
> There is no need to rebuild the formats.

OK, thanks.

Would you have any other idea, what the issue might be?

Best regards,

Marko