Re: [NTG-context] Fwd: [OS X TeX] ConTeXt issues

2011-09-10 Thread Joseph Wright
On 09/09/2011 17:23, Mojca Miklavec wrote: On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 17:12, Steffen Wolfrum wrote: Hi, does anyone here has MacTeX 2011 installed and could help Joseph? (I just saw this on OSX_TEX list, see below). This is a known problem in the sense that it happens pretty often, but it is

Re: [NTG-context] Fwd: [OS X TeX] ConTeXt issues

2011-09-10 Thread Joseph Wright
On 09/09/2011 18:30, Matthias Weber wrote: Hi, I do have MacTeX 2011 installed (for LaTeX needs), but use the Standalone (former minimals) for CoNTeXt. Besides being more recent, this has the advantage that one can archive a done project together with the Standalone tree in case

Re: [NTG-context] Fwd: [OS X TeX] ConTeXt issues

2011-09-10 Thread Mojca Miklavec
Dear Joseph, On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 12:36, Joseph Wright wrote: Hello Mojca, I did wonder if this was known: I've noticed that ConTeXt seems to be 'on and off' at least on my Mac (I've done less testing on Windows). My  /usr/local/texlive/2011/texmfcnf.lua shows: -- (Public domain.) --

Re: [NTG-context] Fwd: [OS X TeX] ConTeXt issues

2011-09-10 Thread Joseph Wright
On 10/09/2011 11:41, Mojca Miklavec wrote: My /usr/local/texlive/2011/texmfcnf.lua shows: -- (Public domain.) -- This texmfcnf.lua file should exist only if you have personal changes -- from the distributed file; for example, if TEXMFVAR was changed in -- the installer. -- return {

Re: [NTG-context] Fwd: [OS X TeX] ConTeXt issues

2011-09-10 Thread Hans Hagen
On 10-9-2011 12:38, Joseph Wright wrote: On 09/09/2011 18:30, Matthias Weber wrote: Hi, I do have MacTeX 2011 installed (for LaTeX needs), but use the Standalone (former minimals) for CoNTeXt. Besides being more recent, this has the advantage that one can archive a done project together

Re: [NTG-context] Fwd: [OS X TeX] ConTeXt issues

2011-09-10 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 12:38, Joseph Wright wrote: I did think of the minimals, and indeed that was my first port of call after 'context' failed from my MacTeX installation. However, there does not seem to be any Tikz in the minimals, and I needed that. Setting up Tikz is not so

Re: [NTG-context] Fwd: [OS X TeX] ConTeXt issues

2011-09-10 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 12:49, Joseph Wright wrote: Hello Mojca, I did indeed install MacTeX 'early' (basically as soon as it became available for testing). I'm surprised sudo tlmgr install --reinstall context metapost did not sort this one out. tlmgr is not allowed to change your local

Re: [NTG-context] Fwd: [OS X TeX] ConTeXt issues

2011-09-10 Thread Joseph Wright
On 10/09/2011 12:04, Mojca Miklavec wrote: Since you seem to have posted your original question to another mailing list, can you please at least leave a reply that the issue was solved (and how you solved it)? Of course: will do. -- Joseph Wright

Re: [NTG-context] Fwd: [OS X TeX] ConTeXt issues

2011-09-10 Thread Joseph Wright
On 10/09/2011 11:53, Hans Hagen wrote: I did think of the minimals, and indeed that was my first port of call after 'context' failed from my MacTeX installation. However, there does not seem to be any Tikz in the minimals, and I needed that. Setting up Tikz is not so straight-forward.

Re: [NTG-context] Fwd: [OS X TeX] ConTeXt issues

2011-09-09 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 17:12, Steffen Wolfrum wrote: Hi, does anyone here has MacTeX 2011 installed and could help Joseph? (I just saw this on OSX_TEX list, see below). This is a known problem in the sense that it happens pretty often, but it is unclear what exactly goes wrong. MacTeX should

Re: [NTG-context] Fwd: [OS X TeX] ConTeXt issues

2011-09-09 Thread Hans Hagen
On 9-9-2011 17:12, Steffen Wolfrum wrote: Hi, does anyone here has MacTeX 2011 installed and could help Joseph? (I just saw this on OSX_TEX list, see below). I remember that Mojca looked into it and it mostly a missing configuration error. But anyway, luatools is obsolete. Maybe an mtxrun

Re: [NTG-context] Fwd: [OS X TeX] ConTeXt issues

2011-09-09 Thread Matthias Weber
Hi, I do have MacTeX 2011 installed (for LaTeX needs), but use the Standalone (former minimals) for CoNTeXt. Besides being more recent, this has the advantage that one can archive a done project together with the Standalone tree in case changes to CoNText happen break the project. The