[NTG-context] updating ConTeXt (MacTeX)
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: . ConTeXt should work now (i.e. at this moment in this shell window) . Are there any remaining problems? I'll change the Wiki now. Greetlings from Lake Constance! Hraban Hello Hraban, No remaining problems, at least not with installing Minimals. Your instructions are beautifully clear. Everything works now. Thank you very much. Robert Blackstone ___ 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 ___
Re: [NTG-context] updating ConTeXt (MacTeX)
Am 2009-04-01 um 17:29 schrieb Robert Blackstone: but also there I manage to run into problems, mainly with files and scripts that I can see in the finder but that are not found in Terminal, not even from their parent directory. Your problem has nothing to do with your above description! You was talking about Terminal (i.e. bash), not ConTeXt! Step 5. In Terminal, type context --make and press Enter/Return. This yields: MtxRun | unknown script 'context.lua' or 'mtx- context.lua' Then I cd-ed stepwuse up to /Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf- context/scripts/context/lua, after each cd trying to perform step 5, and then finally I got: ... But for example cont-en.tex does exist on my Mac and it sits in texmf-context/tex/context/base/cont-en.tex These files are not found. So I am a bit at a loss at what to try next. The page http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_Minimals/Mac_Installation that you seem to follow states: This page describes an alternative of installing ConTeXt Minimals on Mac OS X. In particular it describes how to configure some GUI applications to work well with minimals. (For command-line gurus it is enough to follow the three steps described in ConTeXt Minimals.) The part For command-line gurus is misleading. Stay with http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_Minimals Never install under /Applications if you don't know what you do! Always install in your home folder; you'll run in less permission problems. Open a new Terminal window (shell). You're in your home folder (~) now. Create the context folder and change into it: $ mkdir context $ cd context (Leave out the $, that's your shell prompt!) Download first-setup.sh: $ curl -o first-setup.sh http://minimals.contextgarden.net/setup/first-setup.sh Make it executable: $ chmod a+x first-setup.sh Run it and go make tea: $ sh ./first-setup.sh Run the path setup: $ ./tex/setuptex ConTeXt should work now (i.e. at this moment in this shell window); you need to run the path setup with every new shell (i.e. Terminal) window; to automate that, you can add the setuptex command to your profile, that's a script that gets called with every new shell window. $ cd $ echo sh ~/context/tex/setuptex .bash_profile Are there any remaining problems? I'll change the Wiki now. Greetlings from Lake Constance! Hraban --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://wiki.contextgarden.net https://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer) ___ 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 ___
Re: [NTG-context] updating ConTeXt (MacTeX)
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 6:59 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: Am 2009-03-30 um 22:11 schrieb Robert Blackstone: Thank you, Hraban, for suggesting an easy way out: Use ConTeXt- Minimals, but also there I manage to run into problems, mainly with files and scripts that I can see in the finder but that are not found in Terminal, not even from their parent directory. I don't understand what you mean. Can you give an example? Normally it's vice versa: With 'ls -Al' you can see much more in the Terminal as you can see in Finder, not only dotted (hidden) files, but also whole trees like /usr. There are a few file and folder names though that are faked in international OSX versions' Finder (like 'Applications' appears as 'Programme' in a German OSX). Greetlings from Lake Constance! Hraban What I meant is the following. (Incidentally, I configured the finder so that it shows the ‘hidden’ files and directories, like /usr, too.) Now about installing and configuring minimals I went through all steps described on http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_Minimals/Mac_Installationup till step 5 of ‘configuring’, which is: Step 5. In Terminal, type context --make and press Enter/Return. This yields: MtxRun | unknown script 'context.lua' or 'mtx-context.lua' Then I cd-ed stepwuse up to /Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-context/scripts/context/lua, after each cd trying to perform step 5, and then finally I got: MtxRun | running command: luatools --make --compile cont-en LuaTools | no tex file with name: cont-en.tex LuaTools | LuaTools | runtime: 0.008 seconds MtxRun | running command: luatools --make --compile cont-nl LuaTools | no tex file with name: cont-nl.tex LuaTools | LuaTools | runtime: 0.009 seconds MtxRun | running command: luatools --make --compile mptopdf LuaTools | no tex file with name: mptopdf.tex LuaTools | LuaTools | runtime: 0.013 seconds MtxRun | running command: luatools --make --compile plain LuaTools | no tex file with name: plain.tex LuaTools | LuaTools | runtime: 0.008 seconds MtxRun | total runtime: 0.168 But for example cont-en.tex does exist on my Mac and it sits in /Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/cont-en.tex These files are not found. So I am a bit at a loss at what to try next. Incidentally, step 1 of Configuring ConTeXt instructs me to create a file with a given line and save the file as .bash_profile, which, however, already exists. So I have added the line to the existing file. If this is correct, this possibility should perhaps be mentioned in the instructions. Thank you for your time and patience. Robert Blackstone ___ 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 ___
Re: [NTG-context] updating ConTeXt (MacTeX)
Am 2009-03-30 um 22:11 schrieb Robert Blackstone: Thank you, Hraban, for suggesting an easy way out: Use ConTeXt- Minimals, but also there I manage to run into problems, mainly with files and scripts that I can see in the finder but that are not found in Terminal, not even from their parent directory. I don't understand what you mean. Can you give an example? Normally it's vice versa: With 'ls -Al' you can see much more in the Terminal as you can see in Finder, not only dotted (hidden) files, but also whole trees like /usr. There are a few file and folder names though that are faked in international OSX versions' Finder (like 'Applications' appears as 'Programme' in a German OSX). Greetlings from Lake Constance! Hraban --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://wiki.contextgarden.net https://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer) PGP.sig Description: Signierter Teil der Nachricht ___ 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 ___
[NTG-context] updating ConTeXt (MacTeX)
In order to be able to use MkIV and Luatex I started, as a MacTeX-user, by updating ConTeXt (*MacTeX*http://wiki.contextgarden.net/index.php?title=MacTeXaction=editredlink=1: You need to updatehttp://wiki.contextgarden.net/Running_Mark_IV#Updating_ConTeXtConTeXt first.), following instructions on http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Running_Mark_IV#Updating_ConTeXt The command as given (copied and pasted in terminal) does not work: everything fails: Operation not permitted. Redoing it as Sudo does the job. But then: “luatools --generate” gives: -bash: /usr/texbin/luatools: Permission denied, “sudo luatools --generate” gives “luatools: command not found”. So I cd-ed to /usr/texbin, gave the command “sudo chmod 755 luatools” and then “luatools --generate” and got: LuaTools | error unable to identify cnf file LuaTools | no cnf files found (TEXMFCNF may not be set/known) LuaTools | LuaTools | runtime: 0.002 seconds But worst of all is that after all this I could not use MkII any more: Older files that before updating had been nicely typeset couldn’t be processed anymore: permission denied. I tried “sudo chmod 755” on texexec and on texmfstart but that did not help. So in the end I reinstalled MacTeX 2008 and I was back at where I started. The least one can say is that the updating instructions on contextgarden do not work in all circumstances. In all fairness, everybody is warned: “Note that this is a quick-and-dirty way to upgrade TL. Use at your own risk. One should be able to update in a more elegant way.” But now what? Lots of MacTeX-users must have successfully updated ConTeXt. Can anybody disclose a more elegant way that worked for them? Especially one that does not render the existing ConTeXt useless by meddling with permissions. Just for the sake of completeness, I use an Intel iMac under OSX 10.5.6. Thanks in advance, Robert Blackstone ___ 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 ___
Re: [NTG-context] updating ConTeXt (MacTeX)
Am 2009-03-30 um 11:53 schrieb Robert Blackstone: But now what? Lots of MacTeX-users must have successfully updated ConTeXt. Perhaps not - most(?) ConTeXt users use the minimals nowadays. You can also install them parallely to MacTeX, if you still need LaTeX. Just for the sake of completeness, I use an Intel iMac under OSX 10.5.6. Same setup here, minimals work ok. Greetlings from Lake Constance! Hraban --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://wiki.contextgarden.net https://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer) PGP.sig Description: Signierter Teil der Nachricht ___ 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 ___
Re: [NTG-context] updating ConTeXt (MacTeX)
2009/3/30 Robert Blackstone wrote: In order to be able to use MkIV and Luatex I started, as a MacTeX-user, by updating ConTeXt (MacTeX: You need to update ConTeXt first.), following instructions on http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Running_Mark_IV#Updating_ConTeXt The command as given (copied and pasted in terminal) does not work: everything fails: Operation not permitted. Redoing it as Sudo does the job. But then: “luatools --generate” gives: -bash: /usr/texbin/luatools: Permission denied, “sudo luatools --generate” gives “luatools: command not found”. So I cd-ed to /usr/texbin, gave the command “sudo chmod 755 luatools” and then “luatools --generate” and got: Hello Robert, I wrote those instructions a long while ago, working on Tiger and having a whole lot of TeX binaries lying around, most probably I also did chown myname to the whole TeX tree before performing any operation described there. I have a clean system installed now, I'll try to review the instructions, but if anyone else volunteers, please step forward. But some important notes: - You probably need to execute the rsync command as root, else you cannot sync anything - If you do rsync as root, the owner id is preserved, which is probably not what you want (if anyone has a quick recipe, let me know; there must be some trivial switch to change the behaviour of that) - You can fix this by running sudo chown -R root:wheel /usr/local/texlive/2008 (but I don't know the difference between root:wheel and root:staff) after you sync - The instructions are about using rsync with current context. I'm not sure if that version works with the latest LuaTeX (most probably not). - There are some issues with LuaTeX binaries for Mac that will hopefully be resolved soon, but one thing to note is that while Hans' latest version most probably requires LuaTeX 0.37, Mac binaries still contain LuaTeX 0.35 in the repository. OK, and I noticed one rather important thing now. TeX Live binaries like texexec are symbolic links to texexec.rb which is not executable in the repository from where you sync. this is fixed in TeX Live itself (I think), but not in the ConTeXt minimals repository. I'm now trying to figure out which step makes problems in permission denied. Mojca LuaTools | error unable to identify cnf file LuaTools | no cnf files found (TEXMFCNF may not be set/known) LuaTools | LuaTools | runtime: 0.002 seconds But worst of all is that after all this I could not use MkII any more: Older files that before updating had been nicely typeset couldn’t be processed anymore: permission denied. I tried “sudo chmod 755” on texexec and on texmfstart but that did not help. So in the end I reinstalled MacTeX 2008 and I was back at where I started. The least one can say is that the updating instructions on contextgarden do not work in all circumstances. In all fairness, everybody is warned: “Note that this is a quick-and-dirty way to upgrade TL. Use at your own risk. One should be able to update in a more elegant way.” But now what? Lots of MacTeX-users must have successfully updated ConTeXt. Can anybody disclose a more elegant way that worked for them? Especially one that does not render the existing ConTeXt useless by meddling with permissions. Just for the sake of completeness, I use an Intel iMac under OSX 10.5.6. Thanks in advance, Robert Blackstone ___ 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 ___
Re: [NTG-context] updating ConTeXt (MacTeX)
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 12:27, Mojca Miklavec wrote: 2009/3/30 Robert Blackstone wrote: In order to be able to use MkIV and Luatex I started, as a MacTeX-user, by updating ConTeXt (MacTeX: You need to update ConTeXt first.), following instructions on http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Running_Mark_IV#Updating_ConTeXt The command as given (copied and pasted in terminal) does not work: everything fails: Operation not permitted. Redoing it as Sudo does the job. But then: “luatools --generate” gives: -bash: /usr/texbin/luatools: Permission denied, “sudo luatools --generate” gives “luatools: command not found”. So I cd-ed to /usr/texbin, gave the command “sudo chmod 755 luatools” and then “luatools --generate” and got: Hello Robert, I wrote those instructions a long while ago, working on Tiger and having a whole lot of TeX binaries lying around, most probably I also did chown myname to the whole TeX tree before performing any operation described there. Can you please try if the following four operations (be careful - these are single lines that will probably break in mail) work OK for you? sudo chown -R root:wheel /usr/local/texlive/2008 sudo chmod +x /usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/scripts/context/lua/*.lua sudo chmod +x /usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/scripts/context/ruby/*.rb sudo chmod +x /usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/scripts/context/stubs/unix/* (I get some weird feedback though) LuaTools | files saved in /var/folders/fO/fONBcIHtG78WRhwbQBWB8TI/-Tmp-/luatex-cache/context/20f08ecfffa488db466c55cc8e06b650/trees/982f3cc39ab8256ee0595931d5cfd085.lua Mojca ___ 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 ___
Re: [NTG-context] updating ConTeXt (MacTeX)
On Mon, 30 Mar 2009, Mojca Miklavec wrote: I'm now trying to figure out which step makes problems in permission denied. From what I understand, you need write permission on TEXMFCACHE. So for MkIV, you (as the user who runs context) needs to have write permissions in the installation directory. I do not know what is TEXMFCACHE for texlive, but perhaps setting it to $HOME/.texmf-cache may help. Aditya ___ 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 ___
Re: [NTG-context] updating ConTeXt (MacTeX)
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 16:34, Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Mon, 30 Mar 2009, Mojca Miklavec wrote: I'm now trying to figure out which step makes problems in permission denied. From what I understand, you need write permission on TEXMFCACHE. So for No, the missing step was setting the executable bit on scipts/stubs/unix. Not even texexec runs without that. Mojca ___ 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 ___
[NTG-context] updating ConTeXt (MacTeX)
Thank you, Mojca and Aditya, for your comments and advice. It will take me, being no virtuoso with Terminal, a while to figure out what exactly I have to do. It is in my script that I will again run into problems and then I will beg you to help me out again. Thank you, Hraban, for suggesting an easy way out: Use ConTeXt-Minimals, but also there I manage to run into problems, mainly with files and scripts that I can see in the finder but that are not found in Terminal, not even from their parent directory. Robert Blackstone ___ 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 ___
