Re: [NTG-context] backgroundcolor broken in 2006-06-07

2006-06-11 Thread Hans van der Meer
/ruby/texmstart.rb cp .../scripts/ruby/texmstart.rb /usr/local/bin (/usr/local/bin on my path, as it is in most unix-like systems). After that I had to tweak my TeXShop to use texmfstart accordingly. For those MacOSX-TeXShop users among you who want this too and without much trouble, here

Re: [NTG-context] Question regarding context's module defintion

2006-06-10 Thread Hans Hagen
Aditya Mahajan wrote: Should the test-suite contain tests for ruby scripts also? for some of the functionality that makes sense indeed Hans - Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE

Re: [NTG-context] backgroundcolor broken in 2006-06-07

2006-06-10 Thread Hans van der Meer
generated formats typesetting ok 2. generated metafun.mem afresh with texmfstart texexec --make alone metafun typesetting ok 3. changed the ruby scripts over to the 2006-06-07 ones. typesetting ok 4. changed the context base files in tex/context/base to their 2006

Re: [NTG-context] Question regarding context's module defintion

2006-06-09 Thread Hans Hagen
: inlocaldocument = indocument inlocaldocument = false # else first line skipped when not empty please test all kind of variants (there most have been a reason for this, so it may as well be a bug related to translating from perl to ruby) Hans

[NTG-context] texmfstart texutil

2006-06-09 Thread Hans van der Meer
In order to purge the temporary context files I did (throught an alias) texutil --purgeThis worked fine.Since the introduction of the ruby scripts this call now tells me: remark: 'texutil' is now part of 'texexec' warning: use 'texmfstart texutil' insteadSo I obediently call: texmfstart.rb texutil

Re: [NTG-context] texmfstart texutil

2006-06-09 Thread Hans Hagen
Hans van der Meer wrote: In order to purge the temporary context files I did (throught an alias) texutil --purge This worked fine. Since the introduction of the ruby scripts this call now tells me: remark: 'texutil' is now part of 'texexec' warning: use 'texmfstart texutil' instead So I

Re: [NTG-context] texmfstart texutil

2006-06-09 Thread Hans van der Meer
, pdftools.rb, rlxtools.rb etc it's now: ctxtools --purge For those on UNIX(-like) systems that have only texmfstart.rb enabled as executable (chmod a+x texmfstart.rb) this will not work as none the ruby scripts in the distribution seem to have their execution bits set. The next seems

Re: [NTG-context] texmfstart texutil

2006-06-09 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hans van der Meer wrote: For those on UNIX(-like) systems that have only texmfstart.rb enabled as executable (chmod a+x texmfstart.rb) this will not work as none the ruby scripts in the distribution seem to have their execution bits set. The next seems mandatory if only texmfstart

Re: [NTG-context] texmfstart texutil

2006-06-09 Thread Hans Hagen
has been moved to texexec.rb, ctxtools.rb, pdftools.rb, rlxtools.rb etc it's now: ctxtools --purge For those on UNIX(-like) systems that have only texmfstart.rb enabled as executable (chmod a+x texmfstart.rb) this will not work as none the ruby scripts in the distribution

Re: [NTG-context] Question regarding context's module defintion

2006-06-09 Thread Aditya Mahajan
inlocaldocument = false # else first line skipped when not empty please test all kind of variants (there most have been a reason for this, so it may as well be a bug related to translating from perl to ruby) From the code, I can not understand why

Re: [NTG-context] texmfstart texutil

2006-06-09 Thread Hans van der Meer
. be a wrapper only); the functionality has been moved to texexec.rb, ctxtools.rb, pdftools.rb, rlxtools.rb etc it's now: ctxtools --purge For those on UNIX(-like) systems that have only texmfstart.rb enabled as executable (chmod a+x texmfstart.rb) this will not work as none the ruby scripts

Re: [NTG-context] Generating Module documentation

2006-06-06 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Tue, 6 Jun 2006, Taco Hoekwater wrote: Aditya Mahajan wrote: Hi, How does one generate module documentation? I copied mult-ini.tex to a temp directory and did texmfstart texexec --modules mult-ini.tex It seems that 'texutil -- documents' is not implemented yet in the ruby scripts, so

Re: [NTG-context] MPinclusions strangeness with labels

2006-06-06 Thread Jean Magnan de Bornier
of | the first wiki page. | (*) read: you have to Well, sorry I forgot to say about my installation; actually I have an uptodate one, less than 10 days, last metapost, and using texmfstart texexec all right (I found a script for that on the list with this line: ruby path to ruby dir/texmfstart.rb

Re: [NTG-context] format generation -- again!

2006-06-02 Thread Alan Bowen
the formats using sudo ruby /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/scripts/context/ruby/ texmfstart.rb texexec --make --all I get the error message language: patterns agr for agr loaded (n=24,e=agr,m=agr) (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/patterns/lang- agr.pat ! Nonletter

Re: [NTG-context] format generation -- again!

2006-06-02 Thread Alan Bowen
/context/patterns/. When I try to regenerate the formats using sudo ruby /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/scripts/context/ruby/ texmfstart.rb texexec --make --all I get the error message language: patterns agr for agr loaded (n=24,e=agr,m=agr) (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex

Re: [NTG-context] format generation -- again!

2006-06-02 Thread Aditya Mahajan
/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/patterns/. When I try to regenerate the formats using sudo ruby /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/scripts/context/ruby/ texmfstart.rb texexec --make --all I get the error message language: patterns agr for agr loaded (n=24,e=agr,m=agr) (/usr

Re: [NTG-context] format generation -- again!

2006-06-02 Thread Alan Bowen
be since the files lang-agr.hyp and lang-agr.pat are in the right place, /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/patterns/. When I try to regenerate the formats using sudo ruby /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/scripts/context/ ruby/ texmfstart.rb texexec --make --all I get the error

Re: [NTG-context] format generation -- again!

2006-06-01 Thread Alan Bowen
should be since the files lang-agr.hyp and lang-agr.pat are in the right place, /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/patterns/. When I try to regenerate the formats using sudo ruby /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/scripts/context/ruby/ texmfstart.rb texexec --make --all I get the error

Re: [NTG-context] format generation -- again!

2006-06-01 Thread Hans Hagen
they presumably should be since the files lang-agr.hyp and lang-agr.pat are in the right place, /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/patterns/. When I try to regenerate the formats using sudo ruby /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/scripts/context/ruby/ texmfstart.rb texexec

Re: [NTG-context] format generation -- again!

2006-06-01 Thread Alan Bowen
hyphenation patterns are not available, though they presumably should be since the files lang-agr.hyp and lang-agr.pat are in the right place, /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/patterns/. When I try to regenerate the formats using sudo ruby /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/scripts

Re: [NTG-context] format generation -- again!

2006-06-01 Thread Hans Hagen
that the ancient Greek hyphenation patterns are not available, though they presumably should be since the files lang-agr.hyp and lang-agr.pat are in the right place, /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/patterns/. When I try to regenerate the formats using sudo ruby /usr/local/teTeX

Re: [NTG-context] texmfstart?

2006-05-31 Thread Hans van der Meer
know how it is on Mac. Under windows I have a binary (cont-win on pragma download site), under Linux I create a file texmfstart with ruby /path-to-tex/texmfstart.rb $* (or something similar) see also the new scripts/context/stubs/mac folder (I didn't check, I only suppose that it's

Re: [NTG-context] missing fonts

2006-05-31 Thread Hans van der Meer
= {!!$TEXMFCONFIG,!!$TEXMFVAR,$TEXMFHOME,!!$TEXMFSYSCONFIG,!! $TEXMFSYSVAR,!!$TEXMFMAIN,!!$TEXMFLOCAL,!!$TEXMFDIST} % font name map files. TEXFONTMAPS = .;$TEXMF/fonts/map// Mirabile dictu! The font missing messages disappear after changing texexec to the ruby script texmfstart texexec

[NTG-context] texmfstart with i-installed tetex

2006-05-29 Thread Ulf Martin
. ensuring that the scripts are executable with: cd .../texmf-local-/context/ruby (sudo) chmod -R a+x *.rb execute this in terminal as a user with administrator priveliges. Hope this will help you on the way. Well sort of. I tried your way and got texmfstart.rb not found

[NTG-context] Another texmfstart question

2006-05-29 Thread Jean Magnan de Bornier
into the directory /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-local/scripts/context/ruby and see that many scripts are not executable for others (regular users); so I say chmod +x * in that directory and then texmfstart texexec toto still doesn't work but it actually works with the full path; however my path is correctly set

Re: [NTG-context] Another texmfstart question

2006-05-29 Thread Hans Hagen
permission denied; so I go into the directory /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-local/scripts/context/ruby and see that many scripts are not executable for others (regular users); so I say chmod +x * in that directory and then texmfstart texexec toto still doesn't work but it actually works with the full

Re: [NTG-context] Another texmfstart question

2006-05-29 Thread gnwiii
of texmfstart.rb and get permission denied; so I go into the directory /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-local/scripts/context/ruby and see that many scripts are not executable for others (regular users); so I say chmod +x * in that directory and then texmfstart texexec toto still doesn't work

Re: [NTG-context] Another texmfstart question

2006-05-29 Thread Jean Magnan de Bornier
uses kpsewhich | to find the .rb or .pl script corresponding to the name used to invoke | the script, and then runs perl or ruby with the full path to the | script. This saves having to copy the scripts everytime you update | context. Thank you and Hans, I'll look for your script asa I go back

Re: [NTG-context] Another texmfstart question

2006-05-29 Thread Hans Hagen
been testing to the list. The | script uses kpsewhich | to find the .rb or .pl script corresponding to the name used to invoke | the script, and then runs perl or ruby with the full path to the | script. This saves having to copy the scripts everytime you update | context. Thank you and Hans

Re: [NTG-context] font oddities on mac with i-installer

2006-05-28 Thread Hans van der Meer
., the first one being the important one. 2. ensuring that the scripts are executable with: cd .../texmf-local-/context/ruby (sudo) chmod -R a+x *.rb execute this in terminal as a user with administrator priveliges. Hope this will help you on the way. Hans van der Meer

Re: [NTG-context] Textext Question

2006-05-27 Thread Jean Magnan de Bornier
installation, as others seem to have other requirements? As for texmfstart texexec it is unknown on my machine, I don't have ruby installed anyway (is it necessary?). Thanks to all! -- jean ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http

Re: [NTG-context] Stuck in texmfstart

2006-05-26 Thread gnwiii
source texsetup manually (in the tex directory? What do you get for ruby `kpsewhich -format=texmfscripts texexec.rb` ..., which bypasses texmfstart.rb, where you can try ...=--check, etc.? -- George N. White III [EMAIL PROTECTED] Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia

Re: [NTG-context] Installation Problem

2006-05-24 Thread gnwiii
recently that looks for the ruby scripts. I like to keep context in a separate tree, texmf-cont, so it is easy to see what files comes from cont-tmf in logs, etc. Thomas Esser has (apparently just) announced that he will no longer be maintaining teTeX. Which version of TeX do you recommend I

Re: [NTG-context] Installation Problem

2006-05-24 Thread Neal Lester
TEXPOOL=$TEXFORMATS export MPPOOL=$TEXPOOL export RUBYLIB=$TEXMFLOCAL/scripts/context/ruby:$RUBYLIB export CTXMINIMAL=yes create the directory specified by $VARTEXMF cd $TEXMFOS/bin chmod +x * chmod -x xpdfsuite.zip download http://www.pragma-ade.nl/context/current/cont-tmf.zip mv cont-tmp.zip

Re: [NTG-context] texmfstart texexec --pdf --pages=1:2 = empty PDF

2006-05-23 Thread Tobias Burnus
Hello, Tobias Burnus schrieb: I freshly switched to the ruby script and have now a problem: texmfstart texexec --pdf --pages=1:2 produces: No pages of output. texmfstart texexec --pdf however, works: Output written on tmp_.pdf (3 pages, 103204 bytes) I do not know what that option

Re: [NTG-context] texmfstart texexec --pdf --pages=1:2 = empty PDF

2006-05-23 Thread Hans Hagen
Tobias Burnus wrote: Hello, Tobias Burnus schrieb: I freshly switched to the ruby script and have now a problem: texmfstart texexec --pdf --pages=1:2 produces: No pages of output. texmfstart texexec --pdf however, works: Output written on tmp_.pdf (3 pages, 103204 bytes

Re: [NTG-context] texmfstart?

2006-05-23 Thread Matt Gushee
Matt Gushee wrote: Probably you just need either to put the Ruby script directory ($TEXMF/scripts/context/ruby) on your PATH, or create links from the scripts you want to use to a directory in your current PATH. Maybe just link texmfstart--it seems to be a front end for all the Ruby

Re: [NTG-context] texmfstart?

2006-05-22 Thread Matt Gushee
I've been away from ConTeXt for a while, so I don't have full knowledge of the recent changes. But it seems that many of the original Perl scripts are being replaced by Ruby scripts (of which texmfstart is one), which are in a different directory. Is my system suddenly incomplete? I am using

Re: [NTG-context] batch mode

2006-05-19 Thread Aditya Mahajan
of passon in all sources just returns mptopdf.pl texexec.pl and texutil.pl With texmfstart --verbose texexec --passon='--interaction=nonstopmode' -- verbose test, I get using 'system' call: ruby e:/isoimage/usr/local/context/tex/texmf-local/scripts/context/ruby/texexec.rb --verbose --passon

Re: [NTG-context] Missing space in gs.rb from recent con-tmf.zip

2006-05-18 Thread Hans Hagen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The line in scripts/context/ruby/graphics/gs.rb with -dSAFER needs a space before the closing quote. The corrected line is: arguments -q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dNOPAUSE -dNOCACHE -dBATCH -dSAFER ok, corrected (actually there were two places without trailing space

Re: [NTG-context] First hack at new ruby-aware texexec script for linux/unix

2006-05-18 Thread Hans Hagen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This version runs the ruby scripts directly, rather than the suggested form, e.g., texfmstart pstopdf.rb file.ps. I have no idea if that is intended to work -- it did in my very simple tests . I'm not sure the RUBYLIB line is needed. when you use texmfstart

[NTG-context] texmfstart texexec --pdf --pages=1:2 = empty PDF

2006-05-18 Thread Tobias Burnus
Hello, I freshly switched to the ruby script and have now a problem: texmfstart texexec --pdf --pages=1:2 produces: No pages of output. texmfstart texexec --pdf however, works: Output written on tmp_.pdf (3 pages, 103204 bytes) Tobias ___ ntg

Re: [NTG-context] pdfetex cannot find map files

2006-05-17 Thread Aditya Mahajan
even tried a chmod 755 -R isoimage, but that did not help. How can I debug why pdfetex is not able to *open* the map files? Well, there was something in the path that was interfering with context. set PATH=E:\Ruby\bin E:\isoimage\usr\local\context\tex\setuptex.bat E:\isoimage\usr\local\context

Re: [NTG-context] pdfetex cannot find map files

2006-05-17 Thread Aditya Mahajan
* the map files? so, since you're running the mswin thing, how come that you have this chmod stuff Well, I use cygwin to get all the typical unixy tools. But, it seems that context (and ruby) do not like cygwin. I need to do some more testing to see exactly what was interfering, but removing cygwin

[NTG-context] Missing space in gs.rb from recent con-tmf.zip

2006-05-17 Thread gnwiii
The line in scripts/context/ruby/graphics/gs.rb with -dSAFER needs a space before the closing quote. The corrected line is: arguments -q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dNOPAUSE -dNOCACHE -dBATCH -dSAFER -- George N. White III [EMAIL PROTECTED] Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia

[NTG-context] First hack at new ruby-aware texexec script for linux/unix

2006-05-17 Thread gnwiii
texexec.rb ... when running context, the following script may be helpful. TeX Live on linux runs texexec, etc. via a shell script that is linked to the names of various perl utilities. Here is my first cut at a version that tries to use the ruby scripts

Re: [NTG-context] pdfetex cannot find map files

2006-05-17 Thread Aditya Mahajan
. If I remove cygwin from the path (and use native windows' ruby) context works fine. I still have the old problem with metapost and windows' ruby. texexec --mptex does not work correctly. However, when I wrap the metapost examples in a \startstop MPpage in a tex file, they work fine. So, I have

Re: [NTG-context] how to create texmfstart.exe?

2006-05-15 Thread Hans Hagen
Hi Christian I would like to include texmfstart.exe in the MiKTeX distribution, but I don't know how to build texmfstart.exe. Is there a simple recipe (Makefile) I can start with? I'm switching from perl to ruby, so texmfstart is a ruby script. Say that the next code is put

Re: [NTG-context] some patches

2006-05-15 Thread Maurice Diamantini
Le 15 mai 06 à 09:23, Hans Hagen a écrit : Hi, I played a bit with texmfstart on the (so so slow Q3) mac and i think that i managed to get texmfstart working with less problems. I now also ship a texmfstart with all the used (context/ruby/base) libraries merged in (new undocumented

Re: [NTG-context] some patches

2006-05-15 Thread Hans Hagen
Maurice Diamantini wrote: Le 15 mai 06 � 09:23, Hans Hagen a �crit : Hi, I played a bit with texmfstart on the (so so slow Q3) mac and i think that i managed to get texmfstart working with less problems. I now also ship a texmfstart with all the used (context/ruby/base) libraries

Re: [NTG-context] some patches

2006-05-15 Thread Gerben Wierda
On 15 May 2006, at 09:23, Hans Hagen wrote: (btw, is there a clever way to avoid this sudo stuff and become real root?) This depends on what you want to do and on which system. On most unixes, you can say. You can in perl (and probably also ruby which I do not know) set all kinds

Re: [NTG-context] texexec

2006-05-15 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Fri, May 05, 2006 at 12:03:15AM +0200, Hans Hagen said that I'd like to make the ruby version of texexec the default. Are there any strong objections to this? Also, i'd like the stubs to run texmfstart as launcher. For that purpose i'll add a /scripts/context/stubs/[mswin|unix] path

Re: [NTG-context] new release

2006-05-15 Thread frantisek holop
do to have ruby thing working, and pdftex fonts used instead of dvipdfm ones? your texmf.cnf file should contain: TEXFONTMAPS = .;$TEXMF/fonts/map/{$progname,pdftex,dvips,}//;$TEXMF/{$progname,pdftex,dvips}/{config,}// as long as we have no uniform map file syntax, progs needs

Re: [NTG-context] texexec

2006-05-15 Thread Hans Hagen
frantisek holop wrote: hmm, on Fri, May 05, 2006 at 12:03:15AM +0200, Hans Hagen said that I'd like to make the ruby version of texexec the default. Are there any strong objections to this? Also, i'd like the stubs to run texmfstart as launcher. For that purpose i'll add a /scripts

Re: [NTG-context] \startbackmatter requires \chapter to get bibliography?

2006-05-14 Thread Peter Münster
with the ruby version of texexec. The cite command prints only . Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/ ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

Re: [NTG-context] Linux: ConTeXt in local texmf-tree and Ruby scripts - HOWTO?

2006-05-14 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Peter Münster wrote: I've just seen, that there are a lot of symbolic links in the teTeX installation to /opt/teTeX/bin/texexec, so please forget my advice above. Yes, you have to delele all those symlinks that teTeX provides. If you go to the unix stubs directory in the ConTeXt

Re: [NTG-context] \startbackmatter requires \chapter to get bibliography?

2006-05-14 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Peter Münster wrote: \placepublications[criterium=all] Yes. Hans and Taco, it seems that the bib module does not work with the ruby version of texexec. The cite command prints only . You still have to run bibtex by hand in the new version. And perhaps you need to regerate the bbl

Re: [NTG-context] about texmfstart

2006-05-14 Thread Hans Hagen
Dalyoung wrote: Dear Aditya, I did what you told me, set RUBYLIB=/texmf.local/scripts/context/ruby export $RUBYLIB i'll post a version that has all the modules/classes embedded (i.e. i made a ruby module that will package a script with libraries so that they become standalone

Re: [NTG-context] \startbackmatter requires \chapter to get bibliography?

2006-05-14 Thread Peter Münster
On Sun, 14 May 2006, Taco Hoekwater wrote: Peter Münster wrote: Hans and Taco, it seems that the bib module does not work with the ruby version of texexec. The cite command prints only . It works fine for me, so giving advice is hard. Hello Taco, I've retried with the ruby-version

Re: [NTG-context] about texmfstart

2006-05-13 Thread Dalyoung
Dear Aditya, I did what you told me, set RUBYLIB=/texmf.local/scripts/context/ruby export $RUBYLIB But there is no change in the output of texmfstart --verbose texexec. I copied texexec.rb in the home directory, then I got ~ mac$ texmfstart --verbose texexec texmfstart version 1.8.6

Re: [NTG-context] Linux: ConTeXt in local texmf-tree and Ruby scripts - HOWTO?

2006-05-13 Thread Peter Münster
On Thu, 11 May 2006, Hans Hagen wrote: ? wrote: One remark for the texexec developer: it seems, when searching for executables, the order in $PATH is not respected. For example: I had /opt/teTeX/bin/dvips and /usr/bin/dvips and PATH=/opt/teTeX/bin:... but it was /usr/bin/dvips that was

Re: [NTG-context] Linux: ConTeXt in local texmf-tree and Ruby scripts - HOWTO?

2006-05-13 Thread Peter Münster
On Thu, 11 May 2006, Peter Münster wrote: Using teTeX-3.0, here is what I've done to switch from perl texexec to the ruby one: chmod +x /opt/teTeX/texmf-context/scripts/context/ruby/texmfstart.rb cd /usr/local/bin ln -s /opt/teTeX/texmf-context/scripts/context/ruby/texmfstart.rb texmfstart

Re: [NTG-context] about texmfstart

2006-05-13 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Sat, 13 May 2006, Dalyoung wrote: Dear Aditya, I did what you told me, set RUBYLIB=/texmf.local/scripts/context/ruby export $RUBYLIB I assume that by ... you mean the exact path of texmf.local But there is no change in the output of texmfstart --verbose texexec. I copied

Re: [NTG-context] new release

2006-05-12 Thread Hans Hagen
, the alternative 'ruby ~/texmf/scripts/context/ruby/texexec.rb --pdf --environments=PhD-Thesis ../XML/main.xml' doesn't. Error is: User file 'cont-sys.tex' not found, 'cont-sys.rme' has been used instead. has nothing to do with ruby, just copy cont-sys.rme to cont-sys.tex in tex/context/user; i

[NTG-context] about texmfstart

2006-05-12 Thread Dalyoung
Dear listers, Forgive me for my beginner's question again. As in the list(ntg-context Digest, Vol 23, Issue 28), I did the following: cp /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/scripts/context/ruby/ texmfstart.rb /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/ texmfstart chmod 755 /usr/local

Re: [NTG-context] about texmfstart

2006-05-12 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Sat, 13 May 2006, Dalyoung wrote: Dear listers, Forgive me for my beginner's question again. As in the list(ntg-context Digest, Vol 23, Issue 28), I did the following: cp /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/scripts/context/ruby/ texmfstart.rb /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin

Re: [NTG-context] texexec --check

2006-05-11 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Peter Münster wrote: Hello, texexec --check takes about 2 minutes on my system and there are a lot of warnings like: What version of ruby? Cheers, Taco ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

Re: [NTG-context] texexec --check

2006-05-11 Thread Hans Hagen
Taco Hoekwater wrote: Peter M�nster wrote: Hello, texexec --check takes about 2 minutes on my system and there are a lot of warnings like: What version of ruby? what does texmfstart --verbose texexec report? if it takes long, texmfstart will do a rather extensive search

Re: [NTG-context] new release

2006-05-11 Thread Hans Hagen
. Path separator is a : btw, concerning the texmfstart script itself: - on unix it's indeed best to make a symlink from texmfstart - texmfstart.rb in the whatever-tree it resides in - on windows, one can associate the .rb suffix with ruby and add the context ruby path to the bin path

[NTG-context] [Ann-context] ConTeXt 2006.05.11 released

2006-05-11 Thread Taco Hoekwater
features (since April 24): * Integrated support for XeTeX on Linux * The Ruby scripts are now preferred over the perl ones * The included pattern files now use UTF-8 encoding * Automatic handling of UTF-8 Byte Order Marks Happy TeXing, Taco Hoekwater ___ Ann

Re: [NTG-context] texexec --check

2006-05-11 Thread Peter Münster
On Thu, 11 May 2006, Taco Hoekwater wrote: Peter Münster wrote: texexec --check takes about 2 minutes on my system and there are a lot of warnings like: What version of ruby? 1.8.0 I've made an update to 1.8.2 and the warnings are gone, thanks! Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr

Re: [NTG-context] texexec --check

2006-05-11 Thread Peter Münster
On Thu, 11 May 2006, Hans Hagen wrote: Taco Hoekwater wrote: Peter M?nster wrote: Hello, texexec --check takes about 2 minutes on my system and there are a lot of warnings like: What version of ruby? what does texmfstart --verbose texexec report

[NTG-context] Linux: ConTeXt in local texmf-tree and Ruby scripts - HOWTO?

2006-05-11 Thread Johannes Graumann
Hello, I'm on Debian unstable and have the latest context sitting in my home directory's 'texmf'. The new ruby scripts confuse me to no end - I just don't understand how to make it works. Here is what works and what doesn't: 1) 'ruby ~/texmf/scripts/context/ruby/texexec.rb document.tex' works. 2

Re: [NTG-context] Linux: ConTeXt in local texmf-tree and Ruby scripts - HOWTO?

2006-05-11 Thread nico
On Thu, 11 May 2006 10:12:58 -0700, Johannes Graumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm at the end of my knowledge and intuition. Can anybody help circumventing the need for the monster 'ruby ~/texmf/scripts/context/ruby/texexec.rb document.tex'? Since I'm lazy, I didn't add any new path nor

[NTG-context] Ruby and Context

2006-05-11 Thread John R. Culleton
Until a few minutes ago my Linux Slackware system dd not have a Ruby interpreter. Yet Context runs fine. I seem to remember something about some components of Context existing as Ruby scripts. Am I dreaming or are there such beasties? -- John Culleton Books with answers to marketing

Re: [NTG-context] Linux: ConTeXt in local texmf-tree and Ruby scripts - HOWTO?

2006-05-11 Thread Peter Münster
RUBYLIB=~/texmf/scripts/context/ruby Using teTeX-3.0, here is what I've done to switch from perl texexec to the ruby one: chmod +x /opt/teTeX/texmf-context/scripts/context/ruby/texmfstart.rb cd /usr/local/bin ln -s /opt/teTeX/texmf-context/scripts/context/ruby/texmfstart.rb texmfstart copy these 3

Re: [NTG-context] Linux: ConTeXt in local texmf-tree and Ruby scripts - HOWTO?

2006-05-11 Thread Hans Hagen
� wrote: One remark for the texexec developer: it seems, when searching for executables, the order in $PATH is not respected. For example: I had /opt/teTeX/bin/dvips and /usr/bin/dvips and PATH=/opt/teTeX/bin:... but it was /usr/bin/dvips that was called to create the PS-file. hm, i just

Re: [NTG-context] Linux: ConTeXt in local texmf-tree and Ruby scripts - HOWTO?

2006-05-11 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Johannes Graumann wrote: Hello, I'm on Debian unstable and have the latest context sitting in my home directory's 'texmf'. The new ruby scripts confuse me to no end - I just don't understand how to make it works. Here is what works and what doesn't: Have you run mktexlsr? I had to do

Re: [NTG-context] new release

2006-05-11 Thread Johannes Graumann
Hans Hagen wrote: \defineXMLenvironment [document] {\starttext} {\stoptext} \starttext \startXMLdata document/document \stopXMLdata \stoptext You catch my folly as usually. Thanks. While I get the solution above to work, the alternative 'ruby ~/texmf/scripts/context

Re: [NTG-context] new release

2006-05-11 Thread David Arnold
\startXMLdata document/document \stopXMLdata \stoptext You catch my folly as usually. Thanks. While I get the solution above to work, the alternative 'ruby ~/texmf/scripts/context/ruby/texexec.rb --pdf --environments=PhD- Thesis ../XML/main.xml' doesn't. Error is: User file 'cont

Re: [NTG-context] new release

2006-05-10 Thread Johannes Graumann
Hans, This ruby stuff has me confused to no end. I'm compiling this document (which compiled just fine with the last release - no changes since) with the following command: ruby ~/texmf/scripts/context/ruby/texexec.rb PhD-Thesis.tex For trying to figure out the version I do: ruby ~/texmf

Re: [NTG-context] new release

2006-05-10 Thread Hans Hagen
Johannes Graumann wrote: Hans, This ruby stuff has me confused to no end. I'm compiling this document (which compiled just fine with the last release - no changes since) with the following command: ruby ~/texmf/scripts/context/ruby/texexec.rb PhD-Thesis.tex For trying to figure out

Re: [NTG-context] new release

2006-05-10 Thread Johannes Graumann
Hans, I linked texmfstart.rb to texmfstart in my local bin directory (which is in the path) and issued 'chmod -R +x ~/texmf/scripts'. If I call 'ruby ~/texmf/scripts/context/ruby/texexec.rb --check' now, I get this error free (but not informative) output: TeXExec | current distribution: web2c

Re: [NTG-context] new release

2006-05-09 Thread nico
On Mon, 08 May 2006 13:04:58 +0200, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Today i'll upload a new release. Got big problems with the fonts that are no more found when using the ruby stuff. Since the unix stubs are crappy, I do this: ruby /usr/local/share/texmf-local/scripts/context/ruby

Re: [NTG-context] new release

2006-05-09 Thread Hans Hagen
nico wrote: On Mon, 08 May 2006 13:04:58 +0200, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Got big problems with the fonts that are no more found when using the ruby stuff. Since the unix stubs are crappy, I do this: ruby /usr/local/share/texmf-local/scripts/context/ruby/texmfstart.rb

Re: [NTG-context] new release

2006-05-09 Thread nico
On Tue, 09 May 2006 11:09:43 +0200, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: nico wrote: On Mon, 08 May 2006 13:04:58 +0200, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Got big problems with the fonts that are no more found when using the ruby stuff. Since the unix stubs are crappy, I do this: ruby

Re: [NTG-context] new release

2006-05-09 Thread Hans Hagen
nico wrote: On Tue, 09 May 2006 11:09:43 +0200, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: nico wrote: On Mon, 08 May 2006 13:04:58 +0200, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Got big problems with the fonts that are no more found when using the ruby stuff. Since the unix stubs

Re: [NTG-context] new release

2006-05-09 Thread nico
that are no more found when using the ruby stuff. Since the unix stubs are crappy, I do this: ruby /usr/local/share/texmf-local/scripts/context/ruby/texmfstart.rb texexec.rb --pdf typefile.tex What's wrong? maybe you need to run mktexlsr Doesn't help, and the required map files are here for a while (eg

Re: [NTG-context] new release

2006-05-09 Thread nico
. What can i do to have ruby thing working, and pdftex fonts used instead of dvipdfm ones? your texmf.cnf file should contain: TEXFONTMAPS = .;$TEXMF/fonts/map/{$progname,pdftex,dvips,}//;$TEXMF/{$progname,pdftex,dvips}/{config,}// For the ruby issue: if I remove the TEXFONTMAPS

Re: [NTG-context] new release

2006-05-09 Thread Hans Hagen
nico wrote: Ok, thanks, modifying texmf.cnf as you say fixes the path precedence. Now, is there a ruby debug mode to see why the paths are lost with texexec.rb? Or tests I could do to find out what happens? --verbose gives some info Hans

Re: [NTG-context] new release

2006-05-09 Thread Hans Hagen
remove (or rename) the dvipdfm directory. What can i do to have ruby thing working, and pdftex fonts used instead of dvipdfm ones? your texmf.cnf file should contain: TEXFONTMAPS = .;$TEXMF/fonts/map/{$progname,pdftex,dvips,}//;$TEXMF/{$progname,pdftex,dvips}/{config

Re: [NTG-context] texexec

2006-05-07 Thread Hans Hagen
Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Fri, 5 May 2006, Hans Hagen wrote: Hi, I'd like to make the ruby version of texexec the default. Are there any strong objections to this? Is ruby stable with respect to system calls? Is the behaviour consistent on Linux and Windows? Are there active

Re: [NTG-context] texexec

2006-05-07 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Sun, 7 May 2006, Hans Hagen wrote: Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Fri, 5 May 2006, Hans Hagen wrote: Hi, I'd like to make the ruby version of texexec the default. Are there any strong objections to this? Is ruby stable with respect to system calls? Is the behaviour consistent on Linux

Re: [NTG-context] texexec

2006-05-07 Thread Hans Hagen
Aditya Mahajan wrote: I get. F:\tmp\cont-test\testruby --version ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24) [i386-mswin32] F:\tmp\cont-test\testruby test.rb mpto mp-test-01.mp \gdef\mpxshipout{\shipout\hbox\bgroup \setbox0=\hbox\bgroup} \gdef\stopmpxshipout{\egroup \dimen0=\ht0 \advance\dimen0\dp0

Re: [NTG-context] texexec

2006-05-07 Thread Hans Hagen
Aditya Mahajan wrote: F:\tmp\cont-test\testruby test.rb mpto mp-test-01.mp actually, i can best write an mpto function in ruby -) Hans - Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE

Re: [NTG-context] texexec

2006-05-07 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Sun, 7 May 2006, Hans Hagen wrote: Aditya Mahajan wrote: F:\tmp\cont-test\testruby test.rb mpto mp-test-01.mp actually, i can best write an mpto function in ruby -) That will be great. The lesser external dependencies, the better :) Aditya -- Aditya Mahajan, EECS Systems, University

Re: [NTG-context] texexec

2006-05-07 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Sun, 7 May 2006, Hans Hagen wrote: Aditya Mahajan wrote: I get. F:\tmp\cont-test\testruby --version ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24) [i386-mswin32] F:\tmp\cont-test\testruby test.rb mpto mp-test-01.mp \gdef\mpxshipout{\shipout\hbox\bgroup \setbox0=\hbox\bgroup} \gdef\stopmpxshipout

Re: [NTG-context] texexec

2006-05-07 Thread Hans Hagen
Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Sun, 7 May 2006, Hans Hagen wrote: Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Fri, 5 May 2006, Hans Hagen wrote: Hi, I'd like to make the ruby version of texexec the default. Are there any strong objections to this? Is ruby stable with respect

Re: [NTG-context] texexec

2006-05-07 Thread Mojca Miklavec
The Aditya's example works OK here (no cygwin installed; not one-click installer, but extracted files + bin path set, ruby 1.9.0 (2005-07-22) [i386-mswin32]). But I remember having problems on computers where cygwin was installed. Even if you run ruby from cmd.exe: if cygwin resides in your path

Re: [NTG-context] texexec

2006-05-07 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Sun, 7 May 2006, Hans Hagen wrote: Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Sun, 7 May 2006, Hans Hagen wrote: Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Fri, 5 May 2006, Hans Hagen wrote: Hi, I'd like to make the ruby version of texexec the default. Are there any strong objections to this? Is ruby stable

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