From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/65089 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Aditya Mahajan Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: howto start with presentations? Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2011 17:28:10 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: References: <5tnnv7-ala.ln1@news.jonasstein.de> <3A1A7168-CF6C-4066-931D-9A2BB502378B@gmail.com> <6sfpv7-4r4.ln1@news.jonasstein.de> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1294612110 1271 80.91.229.12 (9 Jan 2011 22:28:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2011 22:28:30 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sun Jan 09 23:28:26 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Pc3kP-0000TL-Gl for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sun, 09 Jan 2011 23:28:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFAD3CA924; Sun, 9 Jan 2011 23:28:24 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id fndz+dknpznt; Sun, 9 Jan 2011 23:28:22 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C8CFCAA50; Sun, 9 Jan 2011 23:28:22 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5855ECAA50 for ; Sun, 9 Jan 2011 23:28:20 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 3DyWC6dDd6cB for ; Sun, 9 Jan 2011 23:28:18 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from filter1-ams.mf.surf.net (filter1-ams.mf.surf.net [192.87.102.69]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29339CA924 for ; Sun, 9 Jan 2011 23:28:18 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from tombraider.mr.itd.umich.edu (smtp.mail.umich.edu [141.211.12.86]) by filter1-ams.mf.surf.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5+lenny1) with ESMTP id p09MSEhh006859 for ; Sun, 9 Jan 2011 23:28:17 +0100 Original-Received: FROM adi-netbook (bas3-montreal02-1096683238.dsl.bell.ca [65.94.14.230]) By tombraider.mr.itd.umich.edu ID 4D2A367C.68ACF.13081 ; Authuser adityam; 9 Jan 2011 17:28:12 EST In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Alpine 2.01 (LNX 1266 2009-07-14) X-Bayes-Prob: 0.5 (Score 0, tokens from: ) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=141.211.12.86; country=US; region=MI; city=Ann Arbor; postalcode=48109; latitude=42.2923; longitude=-83.7145; metrocode=505; areacode=734; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=42.2923,-83.7145&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 06DRyseu4 - 826c41354953 - 20110109 X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 192.87.102.69 X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:65089 Archived-At: On Sun, 9 Jan 2011, Jonas Stein wrote: >> You need to either enable write18 or add >> \runMPgraphicsfalse >> on the top of your file. > > > I put \runMPgraphicsfalse in the first line of test.tex. > That changed nothing. Do you have the metapost executable and format. Does a minimal metapost file work. > Then i searched for write18 in the wiki. I found > "ConTeXt defines \systemcommandmode that is 2 if \write18 is enabled, 1 otherwise. " on [1] > > so i wrote \systemcommandmode to get a 2 or 1 in textbody. [2] > But i did not get a 1 or 2. Now i can see the circle and a "^" > I have no idea, where the ^ comes from. > > >> I think that this information needs to be added to the texlive >> installation page on the wiki. > > in the year 2006 someone wrote [3]: > """ > Hans response on the mailing list > write 18 is a hack and pdfshellescape a sane replacement > in luatex it will probably be gone completely since there we have > \directlua 0 { os.execute("...") } > """ > > I wonder if write18 is necessary 5 years later. You need to use MkIV to get the new features :) Aditya ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________