On Tuesday 18 August 2009 03:02:20 pm Mojca Miklavec wrote: > On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 20:04, John Culleton wrote: > > On Tuesday 18 August 2009 01:48:09 pm Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: > >> You are using ConTeXt minimals. You are using texexec to > >> generate the ConTeXt formats (cont-en.fmt etc.). Why would you > >> expect a format file for pure pdftex to be produced? > > > > OK, so I can't use Context-minimals and still use pdftex. I > > discovered years ago that many plain pdftex files would work > > with texexec because Context is really an elaborate set of > > macros depending on pdftex. I'll try texexec on my pdftex > > oriented file and see if it works. I do most of my work in > > plain pdftex. > > pdftex should work just fine, but the format is not generated by > default. > > You can use > texexec --make plain > but then you need to convince Hans to rename the format from > plain.fmt to pdftex.fmt (or you need to rename it yourself), but > unless you use some obscure packages (or fonts) then pdftex > should work just fine. Maybe we would need to add some font map > entries, but add you requests if you need them. > > Mojca
OK that works so far. Thanks! The reason I don't just use texexec for everything is that Iike to use eplain.tex and there is an obscure name conflict somewhere between eplain.tex and context. Also I find font handling easier in pdftex. Just a single statement is needed. -- John Culleton Create Book Covers with Scribus/e-book $5.95 http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
