Re: Context terminal

[Mojca M. <moj...@gm...>]

On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 22:32, Ethan Merritt wrote:
> On Thursday 02 July 2009 07:54:46 Willi Egger wrote:
>
> 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'!

This used to work in good old times on TeX Live to generate formats:
   sudo fmtutil-sys --byfmt cont-en
   sudo fmtutil-sys --byfmt metafun
   sudo fmtutil-sys --byfmt mptopdf
followed by
   sudo mktexlsr
to update file database.

After that texexec should work, though I'm not sure any more about
which version of ConTeXt is needed in order to be able to use gnuplot
module. For the module itself you need just two files, so that should
not be a problem.

The solution that you would usually find anywhere else would be
   texexec --make --all
   mktexlsr
but texexec --make --all puts format in most weird places.

(Sorry, I forgot to tell. Just in case, always run "mktexlsr" if it
complains about format file not found.)

Installation instructions on the wiki are a mess (I'm really sorry for
that). In particular, texfont is not being maintaned any more and you
don't need it in the first place.

Mojca