metafun installation problem

metafun installation problem

[Eros Albertazzi]

I am new to context and tried to set it up and, hopefully, use it. I
have tetex...
I have been able to run the "let's see if it works" of the
how-to-install manual, but then:

--> texexec --make metafun
TeXExec 1.9 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2000
fmtutil: no info for format `cont-metafun'.

Any clue? Something to uncomment? Regards.
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Re: metafun installation problem

[Patrick Gundlach]

Eros Albertazzi <eros@lamel.bo.cnr.it> writes:

Hello Eros,

> I am new to context and tried to set it up and, hopefully, use it. I
> have tetex...

It looks as if you try to use the context from the tetex installation.
This is not a good idea... see below:

> --> texexec --make metafun
> TeXExec 1.9 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2000
> fmtutil: no info for format `cont-metafun'.

the texexec is way too old. The best thing is to download a new
context distribution. See http://www.pragma-ade.com/ and the context
download is at http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/cont-tmf.zip. I do
not think that it makes any sense to stick with the old tools. 

You could of course generate a metafun format with 
inimpost metafun 
if you use tetex with linux (which I guess). And put this metafun.mem
in a path that will be searched by kpathsea (try 'kpsepath mem'). 

Patrick

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