Re: simpleslides ubuntu jaunty (9.04)

["Thomas A. Schmitz" <thomas.schmitz@uni-bonn.de>]

On May 6, 2009, at 6:59 PM, Amaël Broustet wrote:

> Dear list members,
> I'm a new user of conTeXt and was interested in the simpleslides  
> module.
>
> It looks great and partially works but most graphical stuffs don't
> work :
> I've only the text using Mark IV, and get some of the graphical  
> effects
> with Mark II  (but not all) (I've attached pdf output and logs).
>
> I use a freshly installed ubuntu 9.04
>

It seems you are using the texlive install from ubuntu. Normally, I  
would advise installing the minimals (see http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_Minimals 
  ), but the ConTeXt beta is a bit unstable these days. I have run  
your essai.tex here and get proper output both in mkii and mkiv.

> I've installed the module (in my ~/texmf).
> I've added in /etc/environment the variable
> TEXMFCNF=/usr/share/texmf/web2c in order for luatools and MarkIV to
> work. cf
> http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Debian_installation#Postscript:_Mark_IV
> (the exemple file works)
>
Yes, your logs indicate that the module and its submodules are found,  
so the installation is correct.

> versions :
> $ texexec --lua -v
> TeXExec | version 6.2.0 - 1997-2006 - PRAGMA ADE/POD
>
> $ luatools -v
> LuaTools | version 1.2.0 - 2006+ - PRAGMA ADE / CONTEXT
>
> $ luatex -v
> This is LuaTeX, Version snapshot-0.28.0-2009041620
>
>
> I hope that you have some hints on what I might have wrong,
> In mark IV, it looks like I have a version problem for metafun, but  
> I'm
> not sure and don't now how to get the version number.
>
> Best regards
> Amaël Broustet

In order to get the version number, simply look at the log files. It  
says in the first few lines:

ConTeXt  ver: 2008.05.21 15:21 MKII  fmt: 2009.4.29  int: english/ 
english

and

ConTeXt  ver: 2008.05.21 15:21 MKIV  fmt: 2009.5.5  int: english/english

So your ConTeXt version is almost a year old. For mkiv, which is  
moving very fast, this means the stone age, and I don't think anybody  
will be able or willing to help you with such an old version. The  
problem in the mkiv log is that your metafun version is not able to  
process the background (after l. 80), that's why you don't get any  
graphics. In mkii, I don't see anything obvious in the log. But as I  
wrote: your example compiles fine here on the latest version
ConTeXt  ver: 2009.05.06 16:26 MKII  fmt: 2009.5.7  int: english/english

so you should try and install the minimals. It's no problem having  
them in addition to your system TeX installation, they shouldn't  
interfere.

Thomas
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