Re: Experience on writing a thesis with MKIV

[Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>]

Hi Mohamed,

On Mon, 8 Dec 2008, Mohamed Bana wrote:

> Hi Aditya,
>
> Thanks for getting back to me.
>
> I did a fresh checkout and tried to compile, I uncommented out these lines 
> from the beginning of macros.tex.
>
> L3 \setupcolors[state=start]
> ...
> L16 \setupcite  [interaction=start, compress=no,color=] %darkgreen]
>
>
> L276-278 in env-thesis.tex
>
> \setupinteraction[state=start,style=,color=]
> \setupinteraction[focus=standard]
>
>
> It's still the same;


I followed the same steps. Downloaded the files from 
http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~adityam/publications/thesis/thesis.tar.gz

unzipped them, removed t-bib.tex from the current directory, made the 
changes indicated by you above, and did "context thesis". Everything 
compiles files (there is one warning about Delicious-Bold.otf).

> Version:
>
> ConTeXt  ver: 2008.11.30 14:39 MKIV  fmt: 2008.12.1  int: english/english
>
> And have you seen this error;
>
> ! LuaTeX error ...nimals/tex/texmf-local/tex/context/base/core-syn.lua:71: 
> attempt to call field 'process' (a nil value)
> stack traceback:
> 	...nimals/tex/texmf-local/tex/context/base/core-syn.lua:71: in 
> function 'process'
> 	...nimals/tex/texmf-local/tex/context/base/core-syn.lua:125: in 
> function 'process'
> 	<main ctx instance>:1: in main chunk.
> \mkloadsortedlist ...xlua {joblists.process('#1')}
>                                                  \getvalue {\s!reset 
> #1}\eg...
> \doplacelistofsynonyms ... ]\mkloadsortedlist {#1}
>                                                  \endgroup \ifutilitydone 
> \...
> l.162 \placelistofabbreviations

An error like this usually means that luatex or mtxrun is old.

I am using context version  version: 2008.11.10 21:40 (hmmm... that is 
after a fresh update from the minimals, which is strange) and  LuaTeX, 
Version snapshot-0.31.0-2008120715.

I do not know if something broke in a newer version of context, but for 
that I will first need to figure out why my minimals are not being 
updated.

Since I was at it, I redid the local change in t-bib so that I can have 
citations of different colors. Also changed a few other macros, to work 
well with colors (I had stopped playing with colors a while back ...). I 
am uploading the changed files and the typeset pdf file at

http://pantheon.yale.edu/~am894/temp/

Try to download and compile this and see if it works. In the mean time I 
will investigate why minimals aren't being updated on my machine.

Aditya
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