On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 11:57 AM, Mojca Miklavec
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 4:29 PM, George N. White III wrote:
On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 7:00 AM, Mojca Miklavec
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
some time ago some MikTeX users have complained that ConTeXt doesn't
work on MikTeX. It seems to be a problem with MikTeX itself since this
workaround seems to solve the problem, at least temporary:
ruby C:\Program Files\MiKTeX
2.7\scripts\context\ruby\texmfstart.rb texexec
I'm not so quick to blame MiKTeX -- I suspect texmfstart.rb would need
to provide some path searching tailored to MiKTeX. It seems to rely
on $0 with a tetex/texlive directory structure where SELFAUTOPARENT
can be used.
Christian has indeed replied that he uses the binary version of
texmfstart from CTAN (which is a bit older that the one on PRAGMA).
But I still don't understand what can go wrong in the middle of
nothing, without any major changes. So there is either a problem in
MikTeX or in ConTeXt.
The only criticism of MiKTeX is that it is silly to distribute
a broken package, but then it is up to ConTeXt users to report breakage
and, ideally, supply fixes.
I completely agree. Except that I have no MikTeX any more. And I don't
have the slightest idea what could have caused the problem. I don't
see any serious changes in the texmfstart code that could break the
3-week-old version, while it has worked OK before.
Mea culpa. I should have forced Hans to fix it during BachoTeX ... :)
I will try to misuse some windows computer next week to see if I can
find any bugs (but it's difficult to test since one cannot simply
modify the ruby script as on other platforms).
You can replace texmfstart.exe with a .cmd script::
C: type texmfstart.cmd
@ruby c:/PROGRA~1/MIKTEX~1.7/scripts/context/ruby/texmfstart.rb %*
C: ruby c:/PROGRA~1/MIKTEX~1.7/scripts/context/ruby/texmfstart.rb
texexec.rb cont-sample2e
TeXExec | processing document 'cont-sample2e'
TeXExec | no ctx file found
TeXExec | tex processing method: context
TeXExec | TeX run 1
TeXExec | writing option file cont-sample2e.top
TeXExec | using randomseed 780
TeXExec | tex engine: pdftex
TeXExec | tex format: cont-en
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.8-alpha-20080323 (MiKTeX 2.7)
entering extended mode
(cont-sample2e.tex
ConTeXt ver: 2008.01.28 21:28 MKII fmt: 2008.2.18 int: english/english
language: language en is active
system : cont-new loaded
(C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\context\base\cont-new.tex
FatalError : Your format does not match the base files!
FormatVersion : 2008.01.28 21:28 MKII
FilesVersion: 2008.04.18 14:17
TeXUtil | parsing file cont-sample2e.tui
TeXUtil | shortcuts : 297
TeXUtil | expansions: 308
TeXUtil | reductions: 0
TeXUtil | divisions : 0
TeXUtil | loaded files: 1
TeXUtil | temporary files: 0
TeXUtil | commands: 30
TeXUtil | programs: 0
TeXUtil | tuo file saved
TeXExec | runtime: 0.641
c: texmfstart texexec.rb --make
TeXExec | using search method 'kpsewhich'
TeXExec | updating file database
.
...
...
..
.
[...]
TeXExec | generating mps format metafun
mpost: Invalid command-line option
[The command line can be captured by renaming mpost.exe to
mpostbin.exe and making a script:
type mpost.cmd
mpostbin %*
This shows:
mpostbin -alias=metafun -initialize -tcx=natural.tcx --8bit metafun
[...]
With this, I can format simple documents. The mpost problem seems to
be with the --8bit option, which comes from
tex.rb.
(But apparently there are not many MikTeX users on the list anyway.
Else more would have complained.)
Don't complain, just switch to a platform/distro where ConTeXt works
and use mpm (since few others provide updates with the speed and
convenience of MiKTeX).
I think MiKTeX should remain focusing on the packages and binaries,
and rely on upstream to fix broken packages.
I agree. But I have thought that some change in MikTeX might have
occurred in the meantime.
The problem with mpost suggests some tweaks are still needed
to handle differences between linux and miktex command lines.
--
George N. White III [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia
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