Re: Context terminal

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Thursday 02 July 2009 07:54:46 Willi Egger wrote:
>
> It would be great if future releases would contain the CONTEXT terminal 
> built in, so that its use would work out of the box.
> 
> I would like to thank Mojca Miklavec and Hans Hagen who invested into  
> the development oft the terminal and the integration into CONTEXT.

Thanks for your note.

I had another go at trying out the proposed terminal, but
I have failed miserably to get the texlive2007 version in current
Mandrive 9.1 to do anything at all with the output from Mojca's context.trm.
TeXExec | version 6.2.0 - 1997-2006 - PRAGMA ADE/POD
This texlive installation is working fine for all other uses I have needed.

Is there an actual working version of CONTEXT packaged for use with linux?


Run output from "texexec simple" after creating simple.tex using the
context terminal:

TeXExec | processing document 'simple'
TeXExec | no ctx file found
TeXExec | tex processing method: context
TeXExec | TeX run 1
TeXExec | writing option file simple.top
TeXExec | using randomseed 717
TeXExec | tex engine: pdftex
TeXExec | tex format: cont-en
This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.40.5 (Web2C 7.5.6)
 %&-line parsing enabled.
 (/usr/share/texmf/web2c/natural.tcx)
kpathsea: Running mktexfmt cont-en.fmt
I can't find the format file `cont-en.fmt'!



Some Googling indicated that this was a known problem, and suggested that
the fix was to run this command:
  texexec --make --all
That didn't do much of anything.

More Googling, this time finding the website 
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Linux_Installation
It suggests:
  cd /usr/share/texmf/context/data
  texfont type-tmf.dat --en=texnansi --fontroot=/usr/share/texmf --install --makepath
That produces the following error:

  TeXFont 2.2.1 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 2000-2004
        trying to locate : type-tmf.dat
      processing aborted : unknown batch file

At that point I gave up.

> Looking forward seeing the CONTEXT-terminal included in the distribution.

That would be greatly facilitated if you or someone else would provide
instructions for how to get context running.  Otherwise it is not
possible to test the new terminal.


> Kind regards
> 
> Willi Egger

	Ethan

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Ethan A Merritt