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 I was aware that Mark II had been superseded by Mark IV, but I hadn't realized that texexec was the same thing as Mark II.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 ___________________________________________________________________________________
