texexec is deprecated?

texexec is deprecated?

[Jon Wong]

Hi all,

I did a quick standalone install of Mark IV:

```shell
mkdir ~/context
cd ~/context
wget http://minimals.contextgarden.net/setup/first-setup.sh
sh first-setup.sh --modules=all --context=current --engine=luatex’)
```

Set the correct paths and env in `~/.bashrc':

```shell
# Add ConTeXt
platform=osx-64
PATH=~/context/bin:~/context/tex/texmf-$platform/bin:$PATH
source ~/context/tex/setuptex

export PATH
```

(By the way, the latest lmtx installer is missing the `setuptex' file.)

I was able to use `context’ but not `texexec’. The latter (`texexec —pdf test.tex’) tells me that some format file (`cont-en.fmt’) can’t be found.

Is `texexec’ obsolete?

The 2013 ConTeXt manual still uses it, though.

Regards
Jon

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Re: texexec is deprecated?

[Mojca Miklavec]

On Mon, 12 Aug 2019 at 13:42, Jon Wong <jhannwong@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I was able to use `context’ but not `texexec’. The latter (`texexec —pdf test.tex’) tells me that some format file (`cont-en.fmt’) can’t be found.
>
> Is `texexec’ obsolete?

texexec is only for Mark II (8-bit pdfTeX, XeTeX) which has been
frozen for years now.
lmtx is only for Mark >= IV (new version of LuaTeX), so texexec no
longer makes sense there and anything needed to run it is also
missing.

Support is only provided for Mark IV and later.

Mojca
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