XeConTeXt set up issue

XeConTeXt set up issue

[Mark Smith]

        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.




        

Re: XeConTeXt set up issue

[Adam Lindsay]

Mark Smith said this at Tue, 8 Mar 2005 16:11:17 +0100:

>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 ?

discussed on XeTeX list:
<http://tug.org/pipermail/xetex/2005-March/001838.html>

xplain.tex has been replaced. Hans offers a new syst-xtx.
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Re: XeConTeXt set up issue

[Otared Kavian]

At 16:11 +0100 8/03/05, Mark Smith wrote:
>         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>
>

Hi,

Actually you don't need anymore to edit the file as stated in 
contextgarden (as far as I understood, Dalyoung on the XeTeX list is 
going to put the appropriate procedure on the wiki there).

This is how I did for the update of XeConTeXt:

1) replaced the file syst-xtx.tex in

/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/context/base/

by a new one sent by Hans which contains the lines below this message

2) on a CLI terminal issued the command

sudo texexec --xtx --make --alone en

and obtained the format cont-en.fmt, created in the directory where 
the abvoe command was issued. This is actually an "XeConTeXt" format 
and can be used as
before, for instance by saying

texexec --xtx my-file.tex

in the directory where both the file my-file.tex and the new 
cont-en.fmt just created are present. And everything works fine...

Best regards: OK

%%% the file syst-xtx.tex sent by Hans
%D \module
%D   [       file=syst-xtx,
%D        version=2004.09.11,
%D          title=\CONTEXT\ System Macros,
%D       subtitle=\XETEX\ specifics,
%D         author=Hans Hagen,
%D           date=\currentdate,
%D      copyright={PRAGMA / Hans Hagen \& Ton Otten}]
%C
%C This module is part of the \CONTEXT\ macro||package and is
%C therefore copyrighted by \PRAGMA. See mreadme.pdf for
%C details.

\ifx\XeTeXversion\undefined \endinput \fi

\unprotect

%D For the moment, the only thing needed is to load are the
%D mappings from lower to uppercase characters.

\ifx\scratchread\undefined \newread\scratchread \fi

\immediate\openin\scratchread=unicode-letters.tex \ifeof\scratchread
   \immediate\openin\scratchread=xplain.tex \ifeof\scratchread
     % no initialization file
   \else
     \input xplain.tex
   \fi
\else
   \input unicode-letters.tex
\fi

\protect \endinput

%%% end of the file syst-xtx.tex

Re: XeConTeXt set up issue

[Mark Smith]

Otared Kavian wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Actually you don't need anymore to edit the file as stated in 
>contextgarden (as far as I understood, Dalyoung on the XeTeX list is 
>going to put the appropriate procedure on the wiki there).
>
>This is how I did for the update of XeConTeXt...

[...]

and Adam Lindsay wrote:

>discussed on XeTeX list:
><http://tug.org/pipermail/xetex/2005-March/001838.html>
>
>xplain.tex has been replaced. Hans offers a new syst-xtx.

Thanks guys,

that did the trick.

mark.