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From: Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
Subject: texmfstart not recognizing $page
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 15:53:33 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.WNT.4.63.0610301539340.3184@nqvgln> (raw)

Hi Hans,

In the latest beta

texmfstart --page=1 --file=metafun-p.pdf

does not work. This is the verbose output

texmfstart version 2.0.0
locating 'metafun-p.pdf' in current path '.'
locating 'metafun-p.pdf' in caller path 'f:/Research/Feedback/AC'
kpse     : direct (forced)
using 'kpsewhich' to locate 'metafun-p' in suffix space 'pdf' (2)
checking E:\isoimage\usr\local\context\tex\texmf-mswin\BIN for 
metafun-p
checking E:\isoimage\usr\local\context\bin for metafun-p
checking E:\Ruby\bin for metafun-p
checking E:\Python24\ for metafun-p
checking E:\Perl\bin for metafun-p
checking E:\Program Files\R\R-2.3.1\bin for metafun-p
checking E:\bin for metafun-p
checking  for metafun-p
checking E:\Vim\vim70 for metafun-p
aggressively locating 'metafun-p' in document trees
locating 'metafun-p' in document tree 
'e:/isoimage/usr/local/context/doc*'
registering 'metafun-p' as 
'e:/isoimage/usr/local/context/docroot/documents/general/manuals/metafun-p.pdf'
registering 'THREAD' as 
'e:/isoimage/usr/local/context/docroot/documents/general/manuals'
starting metafun-p.pdf
using 'system' call: 
e:/isoimage/usr/local/context/docroot/documents/general/manuals/metafun-p.pdf
using 'system' call: pdfopen --page  --file 
e:/isoimage/usr/local/context/docroot/documents/general/manuals/metafun-p.pdf
using 'system' call: acroread 
e:/isoimage/usr/local/context/docroot/documents/general/manuals/metafun-p.pdf


Even the simple

texmfstart metafun-p.pdf

fails with

texmfstart version 2.0.0
locating 'metafun-p.pdf' in current path '.'
locating 'metafun-p.pdf' in caller path 'f:/Research/Feedback/AC'
kpse     : direct (forced)
using 'kpsewhich' to locate 'metafun-p' in suffix space 'pdf' (2)
checking E:\isoimage\usr\local\context\tex\texmf-mswin\BIN for 
metafun-p
checking E:\isoimage\usr\local\context\bin for metafun-p
checking E:\Ruby\bin for metafun-p
checking E:\Python24\ for metafun-p
checking E:\Perl\bin for metafun-p
checking E:\Program Files\R\R-2.3.1\bin for metafun-p
checking E:\bin for metafun-p
checking  for metafun-p
checking E:\Vim\vim70 for metafun-p
aggressively locating 'metafun-p' in document trees
locating 'metafun-p' in document tree 
'e:/isoimage/usr/local/context/doc*'
registering 'metafun-p' as 
'e:/isoimage/usr/local/context/docroot/documents/general/manuals/metafun-p.pdf'
registering 'THREAD' as 
'e:/isoimage/usr/local/context/docroot/documents/general/manuals'
starting metafun-p.pdf
using 'system' call: 
e:/isoimage/usr/local/context/docroot/documents/general/manuals/metafun-p.pdf
using 'system' call: pdfopen --page  --file 
e:/isoimage/usr/local/context/docroot/documents/general/manuals/metafun-p.pdf
using 'system' call: acroread 
e:/isoimage/usr/local/context/docroot/documents/general/manuals/metafun-p.pdf

The first system call fails since ruby uses "/" rather than "\" as the 
directory separator and windows does not like that.

The second system call fails since $page is '' (I don't know why). A
pdfopen --page --file filename
always fails.

The third system call fails since acroread is not present.

I fail to understand why $page is expanding to '' rather than 2 (or 0 
in the second case).

Aditya

             reply	other threads:[~2006-10-30 20:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-30 20:53 Aditya Mahajan [this message]
2006-10-30 23:11 ` Hans Hagen

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