No output for no apparent reason

No output for no apparent reason

[Matt Gushee]

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Hello, ConTeXt people--

I am coming back to ConTeXt after a long absence (for about the 3rd or 4th
time - maybe if I just stuck with it I wouldn't keep having these problems,
eh?).

I have a new installation of the standalone ConTeXt package on an Arch
Linux system. I obtained the 'first-setup.sh' script according to
instructions, then ran:

    ./first-setup.sh --modules=all --engine=luatex --context=current

 I also have TeXlive, including ConTeXt, installed as a regular Arch
package; however, I don't intend to use it. In any case, I have sourced
/opt/context/tex/setuptex, so I have:

    $ which context
    /opt/context/tex/texmf-linux-64/bin/context

    $ context --version
    mtx-context     | ConTeXt Process Management 0.61
    mtx-context     |
    mtx-context     | main context file:
/opt/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/context.mkiv
    mtx-context     | current version: 2015.05.18 12:26

I have tried the "hello world" example described on the wiki, and the
output from that is exactly as expected, but I am having trouble with a
couple of projects that I created in 2006. Each project is moderately
complex, including an environment file and several product files. Each
project produced output in the past. But now I run 'context <file>', and
there are no obvious errors (except for fonts not found, but in that case
the default font should be used instead, correct?), yet no PDF is produced.

Furthermore, the log files say that PDF files were generated, e.g.:

    mkiv lua stats  > result saved in file: hobo.pdf, compresslevel 3,
objectcompresslevel 3

And yes, I've checked the modification times on the log files, and they are
up to date.

Of course I am not giving very much detail, but I have no idea what might
be relevant. Any ideas about how to troubleshoot this?

Thanks,
Matt Gushee

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Re: No output for no apparent reason

[Wolfgang Schuster]

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> Matt Gushee <mailto:matt@gushee.net>
> 3. August 2015 07:52
> Hello, ConTeXt people--
>
> I am coming back to ConTeXt after a long absence (for about the 3rd or 
> 4th time - maybe if I just stuck with it I wouldn't keep having these 
> problems, eh?).
>
> I have a new installation of the standalone ConTeXt package on an Arch 
> Linux system. I obtained the 'first-setup.sh' script according to 
> instructions, then ran:
>
>     ./first-setup.sh --modules=all --engine=luatex --context=current
>
>  I also have TeXlive, including ConTeXt, installed as a regular Arch 
> package; however, I don't intend to use it. In any case, I have 
> sourced /opt/context/tex/setuptex, so I have:
>
>     $ which context
>     /opt/context/tex/texmf-linux-64/bin/context
>
>     $ context --version
>     mtx-context     | ConTeXt Process Management 0.61
>     mtx-context     |
>     mtx-context     | main context file: 
> /opt/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/context.mkiv
>     mtx-context     | current version: 2015.05.18 12:26
>
> I have tried the "hello world" example described on the wiki, and the 
> output from that is exactly as expected, but I am having trouble with 
> a couple of projects that I created in 2006. Each project is 
> moderately complex, including an environment file and several product 
> files. Each project produced output in the past. But now I run 
> 'context <file>', and there are no obvious errors (except for fonts 
> not found, but in that case the default font should be used instead, 
> correct?), yet no PDF is produced.
>
> Furthermore, the log files say that PDF files were generated, e.g.:
>
>     mkiv lua stats > result saved in file: hobo.pdf, compresslevel 3, 
> objectcompresslevel 3
>
> And yes, I've checked the modification times on the log files, and 
> they are up to date.
>
> Of course I am not giving very much detail, but I have no idea what 
> might be relevant. Any ideas about how to troubleshoot this?
>
Is it possible that your main file of your document is a project?

When this is the case change this file to a product and all subfiles 
into components.

Wolfgang

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Re: No output for no apparent reason

[Matt Gushee]

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Hi, Wolfgang--

On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 1:18 AM, Wolfgang Schuster <
schuster.wolfgang@gmail.com> wrote:


> Is it possible that your main file of your document is a project?
>
> When this is the case change this file to a product and all subfiles into
> components.
>

Yes, that was the problem. And I can see there are a few other things I
need to change, but the project was nowhere near finished anyway, and at
least I now have output.

By the way, shouldn't there be an error or at least a warning when ConTeXt
can't produce output? At the very least, the log file should not report
that a PDF file was saved when it was not. This seems like a bug.

Thanks for your quick reply!

--
Matt Gushee

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