From: Stanley Hudson <stanley.hudson.48@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Newbie Problem With ConTeXt/MacTeX-2008 Distribution
Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 17:10:47 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <FE5BE80A-86DD-4E0B-8556-08BC2DB9F57D@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <22af238a0809270942v2f114626o4f35f669ca808761@mail.gmail.com>
Well, I installed Context Minimals and used MKIV and it worked. Thanks
for the help.
Stan
On Sep 27, 2008, at 11:42 AM, George N. White III wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 12:51 PM, Stanley Hudson
> <stanley.hudson.48@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Trying out ConTeXt on a Macbook with the MacTeX -2008 Distribution.
>> The following compiles on ConTeXt live at the Garden, but does not
>> work locally.
>>
>> \usemodule[pre-05]
>>
>> \starttext
>> \TitlePage{A Sample Presentation}
>> \Topics{Informative Talk}
>> \Topic{First item}
>> Some information goes here
>> \Topic{Second Item}
>> More information goes here
>> \stoptext
>>
>> This is what I get:
>>
>> TeXExec | processing document '/Users/tom/Desktop/stuff/razzle/
>> firstfile.tex'
>> TeXExec | no ctx file found
>> TeXExec | tex processing method: context
>> TeXExec | TeX run 1
>> TeXExec | writing option file firstfile.top
>> TeXExec | using randomseed 1382
>> TeXExec | tex engine: pdftex
>> TeXExec | tex format: cont-en
>> This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.1415926-1.40.9 (Web2C 7.5.7)
>> %&-line parsing enabled.
>> (/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf/web2c/natural.tcx)
>> entering extended mode
>> (/Users/tom/Desktop/stuff/razzle/firstfile.tex
>>
>> ConTeXt ver: 2008.05.21 15:21 MKII fmt: 2008.9.27 int: english/
>> english
>>
>> [...]
>> systems : system commands are disabled
>> [...]
>> Topic : - First item
>> system : Topic not found/processed
>> [MP firstfile-mpgraph.3999]
>> ! Missing number, treated as zero.
>> <to be read again>
>> \endcsname
>> \@@amvbox ... -\pagebackgroundvoffset +\endcsname
>> \c!topoffset \relax
>> \box \...
>> <argument> ...ght\c!left }\interactionmenu [right]
>> \getvalue {\??am
>> right\c!r...
>>
>> \firstofoneargument #1->#1
>>
>> \next2 #1,->\docommand {#1}
>> \doprocesscommaitem
>> \doprocesscommalist ...item \gobbleoneargument #1,
>> ]\relax \global
>> \advance \...
>> ...
>> l.8 \Topic{Second Item}
>>
>> ?
>>
>> Any suggestions on what is wrong?
>
> I get the same error using TL2008 on linux, so it looks like a bug in
> context. All is not lost, however, as your file does work using MKiV
> with the context minimal distro:
>
> $ context t
> [...]
> MtxRun | run 2: luatex
> --fmt="/Data/opt/tex/context/linuxtex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/
> context/e94a94633d1c5da1888b5ba67f423e84/formats/cont-en"
> --lua="/Data/opt/tex/context/linuxtex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/
> context/e94a94633d1c5da1888b5ba67f423e84/formats/cont-en.lua"
> "./t"
> (t.tex
>
> ConTeXt ver: 2008.08.15 09:41 MKIV fmt: 2008.9.27 int: english/
> english
>
> [...]
>
> mkiv lua stats : runtime - 8.756 seconds, 3
> processed pages, 3 shipped pages, 0.343 pages/second
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> So the solution lies somewhere between 2008.05 MkII and 2008.08 MkIV.
> Simpler documents do work using 2008.05 MkII in TL2008, but if you are
> starting out you may do better to focus on MkIV.
>
> --
> George N. White III <aa056@chebucto.ns.ca>
> Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-27 22:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-27 15:51 Stanley Hudson
2008-09-27 16:42 ` George N. White III
2008-09-27 22:10 ` Stanley Hudson [this message]
2008-09-28 20:17 ` Mojca Miklavec
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