Hello Mojca, thanks for the follow-up. 2012/1/17 Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.li...@gmail.com>: > On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 16:00, Felix Ingram wrote: >> I've just updated to the latest beta and the following will cause an error: >> >> \usemodule[tikz] >> \starttext >> Hello World >> \stoptext >> >> >> The error is: >> >> system > tex > error on line 129 in file example.tex: >> Undefined control sequence ... >> >> l.129 \catcode`\;=\active >> >> Obviously there is no line 129. A quick greg shows that the likely suspect >> is: >> tex\texmf-modules\tex\generic\pgf\utilities\pgffor.code.tex:129 >> >> Is this the best place to report this, or should I drop a mail to the >> Tikz/PGF list? > > It's complicated because I'm not aware of any major TikZ developer > using ConTeXt. > > The main question is: is this a recent problem in TikZ or in ConTeXt? > Usually people on this list might know how to fix problems, but then > you need to convince pgf team to accept patches. (And then Aditya > started contributing and collecting some patches independently.) >
If they aren't yet in the official repo, I would be happy to add those patches. Note that I'm not a ConTeXt user, so I won't be able to test them carefully. > I didn't follow development of ConTeXt too closely, but I'm lead to > believe that \active has disappeared from ConTeXt MKIV. Others will > have to correct me if I'm wrong - I didn't check ConTeXt sources. And > others will have to make suggestion about what to do about this. > Patching might as easy as adding \def\active{13} somewhere on top of > TikZ sources, but it might help to understand why Hans decided to > remove the \active command if that is true. > I add it to my todo list. > On the other hand (completely unrelated), I just realized that the > following commit (unofficial and unreliable temporary repository): > > https://github.com/mojca/pgf/commit/418b278dcf6a2193d0d564d9d85194bdce1e505e > only fixes LaTeX and plain TeX and doesn't fix ConTeXt. I don't know > what the patch is about, but I'm lead to believe that the same patch > might be needed in ConTeXt as well if it is needed for the other two. > Not sure if it is needed for ContTeXt because I added the required file on top of pgffor.code.tex that is loaded by any format one use. I did add a \RequirePackage to the .sty file because LaTeX manages a list of package loaded. I would be happy to do the same for ConTeXt if it has a similar mechanism. Best regards -- Christophe ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________