Hi, Ralf Schmitt wrote: > >>Beforehand I had been using the 2006.04.17 beta and had put off >>upgrading because I was scared of the change from perl texexec to ruby >>texexec. >> >>1. (optional cleanup) Delete the old Context-installed files in >> ~/texmf/. This step is optional, but I do it so that I can track the
I am not so sure that step is optional. Because if the preinstalled version had a cont-sys.tex or cont-usr.tex, then this step may be required to make sure you are not using an out-of-date version of these files. >>3. (stubs, part 1) Create ~/bin/texmfstart containing two lines: >> >>#!/bin/bash >>~/texmf/scripts/context/ruby/texmfstart.rb "$@" A somehwat more flexible version is #!/bin/sh ruby `kpsewhich --format='texmfscripts' texmfstart.rb` $@ (also notice the lack of quotes around $@) >>4. (stubs, part 2) texmfstart will run texexec, so create texexec as a >> symlink to ~/texmf/scripts/context/stubs/unix/texexec: >> >> cd ~/bin >> ln -s ~/texmf/scripts/context/stubs/unix/texexec >> chmod +x texexec >> >> Hans: Could texexec be made executable in the distribution's zip >> file, to avoid the chmod? ctxtools --update does that manually after unzipping, but sicne the zip is created on windows, the in-zip versions cannot be made executable AFAIK. >>7. (test 2) Try a simple file. I use ~/tmp/xy/t.tex containing one >> line, "\starttext abc \stoptext". Here goes: >> >> texexec t >> >> fails with >> >>! Font \*12ptrmtf*=ec-lmr12 not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not found. In the future, the cont-lmt.zip may perhaps be re-instated. > > ConTeXt ver: 2005.01.31 fmt: 2006.6.27 int: english mes: english This is the old teTeX-supplied context format from January 31, 2005, that was last regenerated on June 27. Not the new one you created in the previous step. >>So I think all is well, and I didn't need to set RUBYLIB. Let me know >>of any corrections or improvements; if there's interest I'll wikifi. All documents that say you should set RUBYLIB are outdated and wrong. Every since texmfstart.rb is a 'fat' ruby script, that has become unnecesary. >>>From now on, I hope I can update using >> >> texmfstart ctxtools --updatecontext >> > does not work for me: > > $ texmfstart ctxtools --updatecontext > kpsewhich: option `--expand-var' requires an argument Do not worry about that until the rest of the install is correct, it may start working automagically. Taco _______________________________________________ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
