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From: Gerben Wierda <gerben.wierda@rna.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Moving the old book-structure to a recent ConTeXt
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2021 12:19:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <D87F701A-81AF-43BC-B7A1-542BB57C1D55@rna.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <12327120-143B-4E12-AE37-0B75654099A9@fiee.net>


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> On 12 Jul 2021, at 12:15, Henning Hraban Ramm <texml@fiee.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>> Am 12.07.2021 um 10:25 schrieb Gerben Wierda <gerben.wierda@rna.nl>:
>> 
>> Years ago I wrote a book (Chess and the Art of Enterprise Architecture) using ConTeXt.
>> 
>> The setup was (I think Taco’s) basic book project setup, with a chapters, environments, products, etc. subdirectory where you work in the chapters directory and can both produce individual chapters and the whole book. The main tool to produce was texexec.
>> 
>> ConTeXt has moved on considerably since then (2014-2015).
>> 
>> So, I tried teh old project to see if it still works, but found out it didn’t. There still is a texexec in my MacTeX, but the compilation fails:
>> 
>> texexec --pdf --mode=SCREEN  ../products/prd_book.tex
>> resolvers       | initialization | fatal error: kpse library is accessed (key: original)
>> 
>> Is there a new ‘book’ project structure/template for the modern/standalone ConTeXt?
> 
> The project struture with project/product/environment/components is still the same.
> 
> "texexec" is MkII, you must call "context" for MkIV (with --luatex) and LMTX.
> 
> You will probably need to update several setups, there were many changes since MkII.

So, just for confirmation that I understand this correctly, I need to simply change the command from texexec  to context --luatex and fix all settings in my setup until I get it working again?

G

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  reply	other threads:[~2021-07-15 10:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-07-12  8:25 Gerben Wierda
2021-07-12 10:15 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2021-07-15 10:19   ` Gerben Wierda [this message]
2021-07-15 14:00     ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2021-07-16 13:51       ` Gerben Wierda
2021-07-18 10:37         ` Wolfgang Schuster

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