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From: Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Simplest slides
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:31:49 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.0910191529110.10367@ybpnyubfg.ybpnyqbznva> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091019212039.1f7ef5cd@KUBUNTU64>

On Mon, 19 Oct 2009, R. Bastian wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I downloaded the files "generic*** etc" and tried to install (following
> the 'simpleslides.pdf'); it seemed to succeed. But the compilation
> 'texexec generic ...tex' failed.
>
> So I tried same tests:
> ------------------------------------------
> rene@KUBUNTU64:~/Context/Slides$ texexec generic-talk-15min-45min.tex
> TeXExec | processing document 'generic-talk-15min-45min.tex'
> TeXExec | no ctx file found
> TeXExec | tex processing method: context
> TeXExec | TeX run 1
> TeXExec | writing option file generic-talk-15min-45min.top
> TeXExec | using randomseed 822
> TeXExec | tex engine: pdftex
> TeXExec | tex format: cont-en
> This is pdfTeX, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6)
> \write18 enabled.
> (/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-context/web2c/natural.tcx)
> kpathsea: Running mktexfmt cont-en.fmt
> tcfmgr: config file `tcfmgr.map' (usually in $TEXMFMAIN/texconfig) not found.
> fmtutil: config file `fmtutil.cnf' not found.
> I can't find the format file `cont-en.fmt'!
> TeXExec | runtime: 0.040151
> rene@KUBUNTU64:~/Context/Slides$ find . -name "cont-en.fmt"
> rene@KUBUNTU64:~/Context/Slides$ find /usr/local/texlive/2007/ -name "cont-en.fmt"
> /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/fc4b4b59a4904326c19d982f9a3c28fe/formats/cont-en.fmt
> /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-linux-64/web2c/xetex/cont-en.fmt
> rene@KUBUNTU64:~/Context/Slides$ find /usr/local/texlive/2007/ -name "tcfmgr.map"
> /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf/texconfig/tcfmgr.map
> rene@KUBUNTU64:~/Context/Slides$ find /usr/local/texlive/2007/ -name "fmtutil.cnf"
> /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-var/web2c/fmtutil.cnf
> /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf
> rene@KUBUNTU64:~/Context/Slides$ sudo mktexlsr
> mktexlsr: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXMFMAIN...
> mktexlsr: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXLIVE...
> mktexlsr: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R...
> mktexlsr: Done.
> -------------------------------------------------
> Something is wrong ...
>
> Can you help me ?

You need to make the context format. Try

fmtutil-sys cont-en

Or, since you already have the xetex and the luatex formats, you can use

context generic-talk*.tex

or

texexec --xetex generic-talk*.tex


Aditya
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  reply	other threads:[~2009-10-19 19:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-19  3:06 Guilherme P. de Freitas
2009-10-19  5:23 ` Thomas A. Schmitz
2009-10-19  6:45   ` Guilherme P. de Freitas
2009-10-19  7:02     ` Guilherme P. de Freitas
2009-10-19  7:46       ` Hans Hagen
2009-10-19  7:57         ` Guilherme P. de Freitas
2009-10-19  8:08           ` Hans Hagen
2009-10-19  7:50       ` Guilherme P. de Freitas
2009-10-19 14:47         ` Aditya Mahajan
2009-10-19 19:15           ` Guilherme P. de Freitas
2009-10-19 19:20           ` R. Bastian
2009-10-19 19:31             ` Aditya Mahajan [this message]
2009-10-20  8:01               ` R. Bastian
2009-10-20 22:24                 ` Aditya Mahajan
2009-10-20 23:29                   ` Hans Hagen
2009-10-19  8:17       ` luigi scarso
2009-10-19 12:38         ` Wolfgang Schuster

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