installing ConTeXt beta on MacG4

installing ConTeXt beta on MacG4

[Charles Doherty]

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Dear All,

Expecially those who use a Mac G4 OSX 10.2.3 and who have installed 
teTeX using Gerben's installer.


Following a recent upgrade using Gerben's installer the command 
\startfiguretext no longer worked correctly. The console readout was as 
follows:

  TeXExec 3.1 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2002

             executable : pdfetex
                 format : cont-en
              inputfile : Silly
                 output : pdftex
              interface : en
           current mode : none
                TeX run : 1

This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-1.10a-devel-2.1 (Web2C 7.3.8)
entering extended mode
(./Silly.tex{/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/pdftex/config/pdftex.cfg
Warning: pdfetex (file 
/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/pdftex/config/pdftex.
cfg): invalid line in config file: `pdf_minorversion 4'
}

ConTeXt  ver: 2002.12.20  fmt: 2003.1.4  int: english  mes: english

language       : language en is active
<protectionstate 0>
system         : cont-new loaded
(/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/tex/context/base/cont-new.tex
systems        : beware: some patches loaded from cont-new.tex!
)
system         : cont-old loaded
(/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/tex/context/base/cont-old.tex
loading        : Context Old Macros
)
system         : cont-fil loaded
(/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/tex/context/base/cont-fil.tex
loading        : Context File Synonyms
)
bodyfont       : 12pt rm is loaded
language       : patterns 2:2-en-2 3:2-uk-2 4:2-de-2 5:2-fr-2 6:2-es-2 
7:2-it-2
  8:2-nl-2 loaded
specials       : tex,postscript,rokicki loaded
system         : Silly.top loaded
(./Silly.top
specials       : loading definition file tpd
(/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/tex/context/base/spec-tpd.tex
specials       : loading definition file fdf
(/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/tex/context/base/spec-fdf.tex <unprotect 
3>
<unprotect 4>
system (E-TEX) : [line 1783] \ifcsname
<unprotect 5> <protect 5> <protect 4> <protect 3>)
specials       : fdf loaded
<unprotect 3> <protect 3>)
specials       : fdf,tpd loaded
)
pdftex         : needs map file: original-context-symbol.map
pdftex         : needs map file: pl0-ams-cmr.map
pdftex         : needs map file: original-vogel-symbol.map
systems        : begin file Silly at line 1
  <./DurrowClon.pdf>
figures        : dimensions of ./DurrowClon.pdf loaded from figurefile 
itself
! Missing } inserted.
<inserted text>
                 }
<to be read again>
                    \endgroup
l.8 ...lfigure[DurrowClon][width=.5\makeupwidth] }

?

I have been in contact with Hans who was very patient and suggested I 
install the recent beta.  I have had no success although I have learned 
a lot about Terminal in the process. I recently found help on 
installing ConTeXt on :
http://home.salamander.com/~wmcclain/

I modified his instructions to suit (as I thought) my machine but I 
have still not been successful. Below is what I used:

cd 'Download Folder'

sudo mv cont-tmf.zip /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf

cd /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf

sudo rm /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/tex/context/base/*

sudo unzip -a -L -o cont-tmf.zip

# overwrites existing files!

# SuSE wants the executables here...
# Note: in SuSE 7.2 the files were placed in .../i386-
# linux-glibc/
#       As of SuSE 8.1, they are in .../i386-linux-libc6/
#
#       Also in 8.1, the links seemed incorrect to me, so #       I 
have added
#       a few new steps to try to correct them.
#

# C.D. I have changed the paths below to follow the
# structure on my machine.


sudo rm /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/texexec
sudo rm /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/texshow
sudo rm /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/texutil
sudo rm /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/texfont
sudo rm /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/texfind
sudo rm /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/fdf2tan
sudo rm /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/makempy
sudo rm /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/mptopdf
sudo cp context/perltk/texexec.pl 
/usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/texexec
sudo cp context/perltk/texshow.pl 
/usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/texshow
sudo cp context/perltk/texutil.pl 
/usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/texutil
sudo cp context/perltk/texfont.pl 
/usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/texfont
sudo cp context/perltk/texfind.pl 
/usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/texfind
sudo cp context/perltk/fdf2tan.pl 
/usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/fdf2tan
sudo cp context/perltk/makempy.pl 
/usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/makempy
sudo cp context/perltk/mptopdf.pl 
/usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/mptopdf
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/texexec
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/texshow
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/texutil
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/texfont
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/texfind
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/fdf2tan
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/makempy
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/mptopdf

# Edit texexec.ini afterwards?

sudo cp /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/context/config/texexec.rme 
/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/context/config/texexec.ini

# Edit cont-sys.tex afterwards?

sudo cp /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/tex/context/user/cont-sys.rme 
/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/tex/context/user/cont-sys.tex

sudo texhash
sudo texexec --make --alone en nl  # en = english nl =
# dutch
sudo texhash

exit # from "su root"

I would be most grateful if someone could send me the instructions or 
overwrite the above to allow me to install the latest ConTeXt beta.

Thank you,

Charlie





**************
Charles Doherty,
Department of Early Irish History,
University College Dublin,
Belfield,
Dublin 4
Ireland
Telephone +353 1 7168381

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Dear All,


Expecially those who use a Mac G4 OSX 10.2.3 and who have installed
teTeX using Gerben's installer.



Following a recent upgrade using Gerben's installer the command
\startfiguretext no longer worked correctly. The console readout was
as follows:


 TeXExec 3.1 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2002


            executable : pdfetex

                format : cont-en

             inputfile : Silly

                output : pdftex

             interface : en

          current mode : none

               TeX run : 1


This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-1.10a-devel-2.1 (Web2C 7.3.8)

entering extended mode

(./Silly.tex{/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/pdftex/config/pdftex.cfg

Warning: pdfetex (file
/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/pdftex/config/pdftex.

cfg): invalid line in config file: `pdf_minorversion 4'

}


ConTeXt  ver: 2002.12.20  fmt: 2003.1.4  int: english  mes: english


language       : language en is active

<<protectionstate 0>

system         : cont-new loaded

(/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/tex/context/base/cont-new.tex

systems        : beware: some patches loaded from cont-new.tex!

)

system         : cont-old loaded

(/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/tex/context/base/cont-old.tex

loading        : Context Old Macros

)

system         : cont-fil loaded

(/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/tex/context/base/cont-fil.tex

loading        : Context File Synonyms

)

bodyfont       : 12pt rm is loaded

language       : patterns 2:2-en-2 3:2-uk-2 4:2-de-2 5:2-fr-2 6:2-es-2
7:2-it-2

 8:2-nl-2 loaded

specials       : tex,postscript,rokicki loaded

system         : Silly.top loaded

(./Silly.top

specials       : loading definition file tpd

(/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/tex/context/base/spec-tpd.tex

specials       : loading definition file fdf

(/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/tex/context/base/spec-fdf.tex
<<unprotect 3>

<<unprotect 4>

system (E-TEX) : [line 1783] \ifcsname 

<<unprotect 5> <<protect 5> <<protect 4> <<protect 3>)

specials       : fdf loaded

<<unprotect 3> <<protect 3>)

specials       : fdf,tpd loaded

)

pdftex         : needs map file: original-context-symbol.map

pdftex         : needs map file: pl0-ams-cmr.map

pdftex         : needs map file: original-vogel-symbol.map

systems        : begin file Silly at line 1

 <<./DurrowClon.pdf>

figures        : dimensions of ./DurrowClon.pdf loaded from figurefile
itself

! Missing } inserted.

<<inserted text> 

                }

<<to be read again> 

                   \endgroup 

l.8 ...lfigure[DurrowClon][width=.5\makeupwidth] }

                                                  

? 


I have been in contact with Hans who was very patient and suggested I
install the recent beta.  I have had no success although I have
learned a lot about Terminal in the process. I recently found help on
installing ConTeXt on :

http://home.salamander.com/~wmcclain/


I modified his instructions to suit (as I thought) my machine but I
have still not been successful. Below is what I used:


<fontfamily><param>Courier</param><bigger>cd 'Download Folder'


sudo mv cont-tmf.zip /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf


cd /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf


sudo rm /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/tex/context/base/*


sudo unzip -a -L -o cont-tmf.zip  


# overwrites existing files!


# SuSE wants the executables here...

# Note: in SuSE 7.2 the files were placed in .../i386-

# linux-glibc/ 

#       As of SuSE 8.1, they are in .../i386-linux-libc6/

#

#       Also in 8.1, the links seemed incorrect to me, so #       I
have added

#       a few new steps to try to correct them.

#


# C.D. I have changed the paths below to follow the 

# structure on my machine.



sudo rm /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/texexec

sudo rm /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/texshow

sudo rm /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/texutil

sudo rm /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/texfont

sudo rm /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/texfind

sudo rm /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/fdf2tan

sudo rm /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/makempy

sudo rm /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/mptopdf

sudo cp context/perltk/texexec.pl
/usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/texexec

sudo cp context/perltk/texshow.pl
/usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/texshow

sudo cp context/perltk/texutil.pl
/usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/texutil

sudo cp context/perltk/texfont.pl
/usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/texfont

sudo cp context/perltk/texfind.pl
/usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/texfind

sudo cp context/perltk/fdf2tan.pl
/usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/fdf2tan

sudo cp context/perltk/makempy.pl
/usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/makempy

sudo cp context/perltk/mptopdf.pl
/usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/mptopdf

sudo chmod +x /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/texexec

sudo chmod +x /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/texshow

sudo chmod +x /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/texutil

sudo chmod +x /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/texfont

sudo chmod +x /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/texfind

sudo chmod +x /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/fdf2tan

sudo chmod +x /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/makempy

sudo chmod +x /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/mptopdf


# Edit texexec.ini afterwards?


sudo cp /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/context/config/texexec.rme
/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/context/config/texexec.ini


# Edit cont-sys.tex afterwards?


sudo cp /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/tex/context/user/cont-sys.rme
/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/tex/context/user/cont-sys.tex


sudo texhash

sudo texexec --make --alone en nl  # en = english nl = 

# dutch

sudo texhash


exit # from "su root"

</bigger></fontfamily>

I would be most grateful if someone could send me the instructions or
overwrite the above to allow me to install the latest ConTeXt beta. 


Thank you,


Charlie






**************

Charles Doherty,

Department of Early Irish History,

University College Dublin,

Belfield,

Dublin 4

Ireland 

Telephone +353 1 7168381

Re: installing ConTeXt beta on MacG4

[Bruce D'Arcus]

On Wednesday, January 22, 2003, at 06:09  AM, Charles Doherty wrote:

> I would be most grateful if someone could send me the instructions or 
> overwrite the above to allow me to install the latest ConTeXt beta.

Another possibility is to use the install script at:

http://www.hobby.nl/~scaprea/context/index.html

Place it in a directory, along with the cont-tmf.zip package, and then 
run a command something like this:

sudo perl ~/Context/install_context.pl --textree ~/Library/texmf 
~/Context/cont-tmf.zip

Read the instructions at the site though, which mentions something 
about:

> It is recommended to use a texexec script that passes the formats 
> directory to the fmtutil script of the TeX installation.

 From what I understand, you should also download the version of texexec 
that is available on that page, and place it in the same directory as 
the other files.

Can someone (Simon?) confirm this is all right?

Bruce

Re: installing ConTeXt beta on MacG4

[Otared Kavian]

On mercredi, jan 22, 2003, at 12:09 Europe/Paris, Charles Doherty wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> Expecially those who use a Mac G4 OSX 10.2.3 and who have installed  
> teTeX using Gerben's installer.
>
>
> Following a recent upgrade using Gerben's installer the command  
> \startfiguretext no longer worked correctly. The console readout was  
> as follows:
>

Hi,

I do use also Gerben Wierda's installer of teTeX under Mac OS X 10.2.3.  
I upgraded a few days ago and noticed that \startfiguretext doesn't  
work anymore... and the error message is the same as the one Charles D.  
mentions in his message. Regarding the installation of a ConTeXt beta I  
am way too wary and a beginner to do it or to give any advice...

However \placefigure still works fine as one can see through the  
following example (you should replace "anyGraphic.jpg" with the name of  
a graphic file existing in the path):

\starttext
\placefigure[right]{none}{\externalfigure[anyGraphic.jpg][type=buffer,he 
ight=.4\textheight]}
\stoptext

and the following doesn't work anymore...

\useexternalfigure[anyGraphic][anyGraphic][width=.5\textwidth,  
method=png, frame=off]
\starttext
\input knuth
   \startfiguretext[left][]
     {none}
     {\externalfigure[anyGraphic]}
     \input tufte
   \stopfiguretext
\stoptext

Cheers: OK

Re: installing ConTeXt beta on MacG4

[Otared Kavian]

On mercredi, jan 22, 2003, at 12:09 Europe/Paris, Charles Doherty wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> Expecially those who use a Mac G4 OSX 10.2.3 and who have installed  
> teTeX using Gerben's installer.
>
>
> Following a recent upgrade using Gerben's installer the command  
> \startfiguretext no longer worked correctly. The console readout was  
> as follows:
>

Hi,

I do use also Gerben Wierda's installer of teTeX under Mac OS X 10.2.3.  
I upgraded a few days ago and noticed that \startfiguretext doesn't  
work anymore... and the error message is the same as the one Charles D.  
mentions in his message. Regarding the installation of a ConTeXt beta I  
am way too wary and a beginner to do it or to give any advice...

However \placefigure still works fine as one can see through the  
following example (you should replace "anyGraphic.jpg" with the name of  
a graphic file existing in the path):

\starttext
\placefigure[right]{none}{\externalfigure[anyGraphic.jpg][type=buffer,he 
ight=.4\textheight]}
\stoptext

and the following doesn't work anymore...

\useexternalfigure[anyGraphic][anyGraphic][width=.5\textwidth,  
method=png, frame=off]
\starttext
\input knuth
   \startfiguretext[left][]
     {none}
     {\externalfigure[anyGraphic]}
     \input tufte
   \stopfiguretext
\stoptext

Cheers: OK