Upgrading...

Upgrading...

[ishamid]

Dear syndicate,

While I have not closely kept up with all developments it seems that 
installation/upgrade procedures have been improved. I also went through a lot 
of pain the last time I upgraded so I ask:

Given that:

1. I have not updated my context since Aug. of last year;

2. my fpTeX is from last July.

What is the wisest and most efficient way to upgrade my ConTeXt distribution 
today?

Should I replace fpTeX (including Aleph) with the ConTeXt/TeX distribution 
from the website?

Are there any Aleph-related issues?

Any tips will be appreciated

Thanks
Idris

Professor Idris Samawi Hamid
Department of Philosophy
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO 80523

Re: Upgrading...

[h h extern]

ishamid wrote:
> Dear syndicate,
> 
> While I have not closely kept up with all developments it seems that 
> installation/upgrade procedures have been improved. I also went through a lot 
> of pain the last time I upgraded so I ask:
> 
> Given that:
> 
> 1. I have not updated my context since Aug. of last year;
> 
> 2. my fpTeX is from last July.
> 
> What is the wisest and most efficient way to upgrade my ConTeXt distribution 
> today?
> 
> Should I replace fpTeX (including Aleph) with the ConTeXt/TeX distribution 
> from the website?
> 
> Are there any Aleph-related issues?
> 
> Any tips will be appreciated

just download the windows zip file from our website and install that one in a 
separate tree, e.g. under

c:\context

then, you can initialize that tree with

c:\context\setuptex c:\context

and voila ...

when needed, unzip the latest cont-tfm (beta) and cont-lmr archives in 
texmf-local and remake formats

Hans

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Re: Upgrading...

[Idris Samawi Hamid]

On Sat, 05 Mar 2005 23:51:50 +0100, h h extern <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:

> when needed, unzip the latest cont-tfm (beta) and cont-lmr archives in 
> texmf-local and remake formats

Where are the cont-lmr archives? I can't find them...

Idris

-- 
Professor Idris Samawi Hamid
Department of Philosophy
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO 80523

Re: Upgrading...

[Hans Hagen]

Idris Samawi Hamid wrote:
> On Sat, 05 Mar 2005 23:51:50 +0100, h h extern <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:
> 
>> when needed, unzip the latest cont-tfm (beta) and cont-lmr archives in 
>> texmf-local and remake formats
> 
> 
> Where are the cont-lmr archives? I can't find them...

on our website there is a zip (beta location) in the texmf structure

Hans


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Re: Upgrading...

[Patrick Gundlach]

Hi,

>>> when needed, unzip the latest cont-tfm (beta) and cont-lmr archives
>>> in texmf-local and remake formats
>> Where are the cont-lmr archives? I can't find them...
>
> on our website there is a zip (beta location) in the texmf structure


jftr: it is in

context/latest/cont-lmt.zip


-- 
It's St. Patrick's Day!

RE: Upgrading...

[ishamid]

>===== Original Message From Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> =====
>> =======================================================
>> C:\ConTeXt\texmf-mswin\web2c>aleph --ini *plain \dump
>> This is Alephk, Version 3.141592-1.15-2.1-0.0-rc4 (Web2c 7.5.3) (INIALEPH)
>>  %&-line parsing enabled.
>
>this is a plain tex issue ... looks likemanfnt is not on your system

1. ok, how do I get

C:\ConTeXt\texmf-mswin\bin

to secondarily search C:\TeXLive, where manfnt is located?

2. Also, I need both pdfetex and aleph; how do I get both, since both

texexec --make en -tex=aleph

and

texexec --make en -tex=pdfetex

produce the same file, cont-en.fmt?

Idris

Professor Idris Samawi Hamid
Department of Philosophy
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO 80523

Re: Upgrading...

[Hans Hagen]

ishamid wrote:
>>===== Original Message From Idris Samawi Hamid <ishamid@colostate.edu> =====
>>On Sat, 05 Mar 2005 23:51:50 +0100, h h extern <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>when needed, unzip the latest cont-tfm (beta) and cont-lmr archives in
>>>texmf-local and remake formats
>>
>>Where are the cont-lmr archives? I can't find them...
> 
> 
> Ok, I see that lmr comes with the mswincontext distribution, so cont-lmr will 
> be put up if/when improvements are made?

indeed

Hans


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Re: Upgrading...

[Hans Hagen]

ishamid wrote:
> I must be making this way too complicated, anyway...
> 
> I placed C:\ConTeXt\texmf-mswin\bin ahead of TeXLive in my NT PATH (Windows 
> 2000) so those binaries get called first. I tried to make the aleph format:
> 
> =======================================================
> C:\ConTeXt\texmf-mswin\web2c>aleph --ini *plain \dump
> This is Alephk, Version 3.141592-1.15-2.1-0.0-rc4 (Web2c 7.5.3) (INIALEPH)
>  %&-line parsing enabled.

this is a plain tex issue ... looks likemanfnt is not on your system

Hans

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RE: Upgrading...

[ishamid]

I must be making this way too complicated, anyway...

I placed C:\ConTeXt\texmf-mswin\bin ahead of TeXLive in my NT PATH (Windows 
2000) so those binaries get called first. I tried to make the aleph format:

=======================================================
C:\ConTeXt\texmf-mswin\web2c>aleph --ini *plain \dump
This is Alephk, Version 3.141592-1.15-2.1-0.0-rc4 (Web2c 7.5.3) (INIALEPH)
 %&-line parsing enabled.
Copyright (c) 2002--2004 the Aleph task force
entering extended mode
(c:/ConTeXt/texmf/tex/plain/base/plain.tex Preloading the plain format: codes,
registers, parameters, fonts, more fonts,
! Font \preloaded=manfnt not loadable: Metric (TFM/OFM) file not found.
<to be read again>
                   \par
l.468

?
=======================================================

It works fine in TeXLive.

Another problem: how can I have both the aleph and the pdfetex formats?

texexec --make en -tex=aleph

overides the default cont-en.fmt made by

texexec --make

Question: how can I configure mktexlsr so that it updates both C:\ConTeXt as 
well as C:\TeXLive?

best
Idris

Professor Idris Samawi Hamid
Department of Philosophy
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO 80523

RE: Upgrading...

[ishamid]

> just download the windows zip file from our website and install that one
> in a separate tree, e.g. under
>
> c:\context
>
> then, you can initialize that tree with
>
> c:\context\setuptex c:\context
>
> and voila ...

Ok, I followed the above. Now I have two trees, c:\TeXLive and c:\ConTeXt

Issues:

1. I ``initialized'' the \ConTeXt tree and ran

texexec --make

but no aleph format, so a batch file is called:

cd C:\ConTeXt\texmf-mswin\web2c
aleph --ini *plain \dump
texexec --make en -tex=aleph
aleph --ini *cont-en

but...

C:\ConTeXt\texmf-mswin\web2c>aleph --ini *plain \dump
! aleph.pool doesn't match; otangle me again (or fix the path).

How do I get aleph working?

2. How do I get my OS to recognize/prioritize the C:\ConTeXt tree (when I call 
texexec from my editor it still calls from c:\TeXLive)? Do I have to uninstall 
ConTeXt from my c:\TeXLive path? What is the cleanest way to do that?

3. I presume that 
\ConTeXt\texmf-local\web2c\texmf.cnf 
is the one 
texexec --make
uses. Have you already optimized/tested 
\ConTeXt\texmf-local\web2c\texmf.cnf 
for aleph (there were a few issues as you may recall...)?

Best
Idris

Professor Idris Samawi Hamid
Department of Philosophy
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO 80523

RE: Upgrading...

[ishamid]

>===== Original Message From Idris Samawi Hamid <ishamid@colostate.edu> =====
>On Sat, 05 Mar 2005 23:51:50 +0100, h h extern <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:
>
>> when needed, unzip the latest cont-tfm (beta) and cont-lmr archives in
>> texmf-local and remake formats
>
>Where are the cont-lmr archives? I can't find them...

Ok, I see that lmr comes with the mswincontext distribution, so cont-lmr will 
be put up if/when improvements are made?

Idris

Professor Idris Samawi Hamid
Department of Philosophy
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO 80523