Dear Otared: Thank you very much! The third solution works very well when I select the "ConTeXt-MKIV" program.
I am still experimenting with the other two solutions, but at least I now have a method to get started learning ConTeXt. Best regards, Bruce > On Dec 16, 2015, at 11:48 AM, Otared Kavian <ota...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Bruce, > > You have three solutions in order to solve the TeXShop issue. Here they are: > > Solution 1: add the following line at the top of your source file: > > %!TEX TS-program = mkiv > > Note that in the above you should replace « mkiv » with whatever engine name > known to your TeXShop installation (for instance « ContextSuite», or any > other name you have, or (may God forgive both of us…) even « latex »…). When > you typeset with ConTeXt, the TeXShop will use the chosen engine. > > Solution 2: when your source file is open you should have at the top your > window a small menu named « Program ». Click on that menu and among the > programs (that is the engines) choose th eone you want. > > Solution 3: open the TeXShop Preferences and in the « Typesetting » pane , on > the upper left part of the resulting window choose the radio button « Command > listed below » and type the name of your preferred engine. > > Best regards: OK > >> On 16 Dec 2015, at 17:34, Bruce Boghosian <bruce.boghos...@tufts.edu> wrote: >> >> I see, thanks. I did use --engines=luatex. I was aware that Mark II had >> been superseded by Mark IV, but I hadn't realized that texexec was the same >> thing as Mark II. OK, so I won't worry about that issue any more. >> >> It seems that my only remaining problem is the aforementioned TeXShop issue. >> I will keep working on it. >> >> Best, >> Bruce >> >> >>> On Dec 16, 2015, at 11:25 AM, Mojca Miklavec >>> <mojca.miklavec.li...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> On 16 December 2015 at 17:10, Bruce Boghosian wrote: >>>> >>>> Also, FWIW, I note that de Boer's document, "LaTeX in proper ConTeXt" >>>> recommends compiling from the command line using texexec rather than >>>> context. This does not work for me. The command "texexec" exists, and I >>>> can run it, but it does not produce a .pdf file -- just a .tmp file. >>> >>> That document is a very old one. Nowadays context is preferred to >>> texexec (also known as Mark II or MkII). If you installed context with >>> --engines=luatex you explicitly did not installed prerequisites for >>> Mark II (pdftex with fonts etc.). >>> >>> 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 : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ >>> wiki : http://contextgarden.net >>> ___________________________________________________________________________________ >> >> ___________________________________________________________________________________ >> 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 : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ >> wiki : http://contextgarden.net >> ___________________________________________________________________________________ > > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > 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 : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ > wiki : http://contextgarden.net > ___________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
