This is my first post to the list. I&#39;m a first time user and I&#39;m very eager to give Context a try. However, so far I&#39;ve been unable to get Context to work properly. Maybe someone can help. I&#39;m using a standard Windows PC running XP SP2. I&#39;m using the minimals version. There are no other Tex related packages on my system.<div>
<br></div><div>Problem 1 (solved):</div><div>Ruby error: no such file to load ubygems</div><div>Solution: this error is caused by the environment variable RUBYOPT. When it is set, it is usually set to -rubygems. Unsetting this variable solves the problem. </div>
<div>Suggestion: when running first-setup.bat this error is produced on the very first line. However, since there is a lot of text scrolling down the screen this error is easily overlooked. It may be a good idea to unset the RUBYOPT variable in this .bat file. It may also be a good idea to unset (and probably reset) this variable in the texexec.bat file before texlua is called.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Problem 2 (not-solved)</div><div>I&#39;m getting the infamous error: I can&#39;t find the format file `cont-en.fmt&#39;!  I searched this list and tried texexec --make --all  This doesn&#39;t solve the problem. The problem is located in this part of the output:</div>
<div><br></div><div>TexExec | using tex engine pdftex</div><div>TexExec | using tex format path ./pdftex</div><div>TexExec | unable to make format due to lack of permissions</div><div>TexExec | using mp engine mpost</div>
<div>TexExec | using mps format path .</div><div>TexExec | generating mps format metafun</div><div><br></div><div>I then did some debugging on the tex.rb file and found the error is generated in the following piece of code starting at line 646:</div>
<div><br></div><div><div>        if texformats &amp;&amp; texengine then</div><div>            report(&quot;using tex engine #{texengine}&quot;)</div><div>            texformatpath = if getvariable(&#39;local&#39;) then &#39;.&#39; else Kpse.formatpath(texengine,true) end</div>
<div>            # can be empty, to do</div><div>            report(&quot;using tex format path #{texformatpath}&quot;)</div><div>            Dir.chdir(texformatpath) rescue false</div><div>            if FileTest.writable?(texformatpath) then</div>
<div><br></div><div>The last if fails and generates the error on line 679. I then checked for file permissions in the c:\context directory tree and found no problems there. My guess: the ./pdftex format path either doesn&#39;t exist or can&#39;t be found by tex.rb and this generates the error. The ruby scripts of Context are too large to do a full debug. I simply do not have the time for that. </div>
<div><br></div><div>So, after several hours of hacking I hope someone can solve this problem, so I can finally give Context a try.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Harrie Frericks</div><div>The Netherlands</div>
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