XeConTeXt set up issue

[Mark Smith <mark@bbprojects.net>]

        Apart from my reference numbering problem with the bib module, everything was working OK. So, I decided it was time to have a go with "XeConTeXt".

I was following Adam's instructions here:

        <http://contextgarden.net/XeTeX>
        

Checked:

        /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/context/config:texexec.ini
        
for:

        for tetex  set  TeXPassString  to -progname=context
        for tetex  set  TeXVirginFlag  to -ini
        
OK. Just to be safe ran:

        texexec --verbose
        texexec --make
        texhash
        
        
No problems so far. Then:

        
        sudo texexec --make --xtx en
        
gave:

        TeXExec 5.2.5 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005


                TeX hash binary : mktexlsr
                        comment : hashing may take a while ...
        mktexlsr: Updating /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/ls-R... 
        mktexlsr: Updating /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.gwtex/ls-R... 
        mktexlsr: Updating /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/ls-R... 
        mktexlsr: Updating /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/ls-R... 
        mktexlsr: Updating /var/tmp/texfonts/ls-R... 
        mktexlsr: Done.
        This is XeTeX, Version 3.141592-2.2-0.91 (Web2C 7.5.3) (INITEX)
        (WARNING: translate-file "natural.tcx" ignored)
        entering extended mode
        (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/base/cont-en.tex
        (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/base/context.tex
        (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/base/syst-pln.tex)
        (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/base/syst-prm.tex)
        (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/base/syst-etx.tex)
        (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/base/syst-omg.tex)
        (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/base/syst-xtx.tex
        ! I can't find file `xplain.tex'.
        l.21 \input xplain.tex
                      
        Please type another input file name:
        
        
xplain.tex is indeed nowhere to be found

I reinstalled TeX then XeTeX and then ConTeXt from Gerben's and Jonathan's i-Packages choosing "2004 Stable" for TeX and "beta" for ConTeXt.

Went through the same procedure. Same result.

How to proceed ?


[Just to test, I then ran:

        texexec --xtx mySampleFile.tex
        
and got:

                TeXExec 5.2.5 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005

                        executable : xetex
                        format : cont-en
                        inputfile : /Users/Mark/mySampleFile
                        output : xetex
                        interface : en
                        current mode : none
                        TeX run : 1

        This is XeTeX, Version 3.141592-2.2-0.91 (Web2C 7.5.3)
         (WARNING: translate-file "natural.tcx" ignored)
        ---! cont-en.fmt was written by pdfetex
        (Fatal format file error; I'm stymied)
        
which probably corresponds to the fact that <cont-en.xfmt> was not generated in:

        /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/web2c/
        
I suppose ? because the texexec --make --xtx en couldn't complete ?]

Any ideas ? (As I say, everything else seems to be working ('part from that bib module problem I mentioned in a separate post)

wtia,

mark.