Re: [NTG-context] Problem installing minimals on PowerMac G4
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 13:19, Robert Blackstone wrote: > > The only issue still remaining is the interruption during the > installation process. I have no clue as to what could be the cause. Please try to send more information. 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 ___
Re: [NTG-context] Problem installing minimals on PowerMac G4
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 10:05:15, Mojca Miklavec wrote > Please try to open Terminal.app and write: > > source /Users/robert/context-minimals-04-06/tex/setuptex > context > /Users/robertblackstone/Dropbox/C-tests/Titles-interline_spacing_of/Titles-interline_spacing_of-test1PM.tex > > and see if that one fails as well. > When I write: source /Users/robertblackstone/context-minimals-04-06-11/tex/setuptex, (this is the correct name) in all but one caseTerminal responds with: "/Users/robertblackstone/context-minimals-04-06-11" is not a valid TEXROOT path. (There is no file "/Users/robertblackstone/context-minimals-04-06-11/texmf/tex/plain/base/plain.tex") provide a proper tex root (like '. setuptex /something/tex')" Only if I change the working directory to /Users/robertblackstone/context-minimals-04-06-11/tex/ the response is: "Setting "/Users/robertblackstone/context-minimals-04-06-11/tex" as ConTeXt root." and I can process tex-files both with mkii and mkiv . The resulting pdf, however, placed in the same working directory, is not correct. I found, helped by ConTeXt garden, that I could activate ConTeXt-minimals-04-06-11 on this machine by typing: "export PATH=/Users/robertblackstone/ConTeXt-minimals-04-06-11/tex/texmf-osx-ppc/bin:$PATH" from any directory and get the correct output. I accordingly changed the TeXShop engine and that also works now. The only issue still remaining is the interruption during the installation process. I have no clue as to what could be the cause. I tried to avoid it by running "umask 0022" and even "umask 0002" before creating the new minimals directory, but that did not help. But using ctrl-D a few times, as Mojca suggested, when the installation process stops midway, eventually results in a usable minimals. Maybe some functions do not work but I have not yet discovered any. So that might not be a real problem after all. Thanks for the help. Kind regards, Robert Blackstone ___ 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 ___
Re: [NTG-context] Problem installing minimals on PowerMac G4
On 06/06/2011 10:05 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 09:59, Robert Blackstone wrote: On Sun, 5 Jun 2011 03:23:54 Mojca Miklavec wrote How exactly do you run MKIV? I always use TeXShop with an engine-file (in ~/Library/TeXShop/Engines), made executable, in this case mkiv-04-06.engine, which reads: #!/bin/bash source /Users/robert/context-minimals-04-06/tex/setuptex context "$1" It works on my other machines. Incidentally, I found that mkiv does not work on this machine with the october minimals either, so maybe it never worked on this PowerMac (Tiger). I failed to notice it because I always used mkii and I only started using mkiv recently. I cannot check it either, since I trashed earlier minimals. Judging from your log: "The argument "/Users/robertblackstone/Dropbox/C-tests/Titles-interline_spacing_of/Titles-interline_spacing_of-test1PM.tex" is not a valid TEXROOT path. I would say that there is a problem with your TeXshop. This means that you must have called "source /Users/robert/context-minimals-04-06/tex/setuptex /Users/robertblackstone/Dropbox/C-tests/Titles-interline_spacing_of/Titles-interline_spacing_of-test1PM.tex" It could perhaps be a line ending problem (\r <=> \n), where bash actually sees something like this?: source /Users/robert/context-minimals-04-06/tex/setuptex\rcontext "$1" Best wishes, Taco ___ 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 ___
Re: [NTG-context] Problem installing minimals on PowerMac G4
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 09:59, Robert Blackstone wrote: > On Sun, 5 Jun 2011 03:23:54 Mojca Miklavec wrote >> >> How exactly do you run MKIV? >> > I always use TeXShop with an engine-file (in > ~/Library/TeXShop/Engines), made executable, in this case > mkiv-04-06.engine, which reads: > #!/bin/bash > > source /Users/robert/context-minimals-04-06/tex/setuptex > context "$1" > It works on my other machines. > Incidentally, I found that mkiv does not work on this machine with the > october minimals either, so maybe it never worked on this PowerMac > (Tiger). I failed to notice it because I always used mkii and I only > started using mkiv recently. I cannot check it either, since I trashed > earlier minimals. Judging from your log: "The argument "/Users/robertblackstone/Dropbox/C-tests/Titles-interline_spacing_of/Titles-interline_spacing_of-test1PM.tex" is not a valid TEXROOT path. I would say that there is a problem with your TeXshop. This means that you must have called "source /Users/robert/context-minimals-04-06/tex/setuptex /Users/robertblackstone/Dropbox/C-tests/Titles-interline_spacing_of/Titles-interline_spacing_of-test1PM.tex" somehow. Please try to open Terminal.app and write: source /Users/robert/context-minimals-04-06/tex/setuptex context /Users/robertblackstone/Dropbox/C-tests/Titles-interline_spacing_of/Titles-interline_spacing_of-test1PM.tex and see if that one fails as well. 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 ___
Re: [NTG-context] Problem installing minimals on PowerMac G4
On Sun, 5 Jun 2011 03:23:54 Mojca Miklavec wrote > > How exactly do you run MKIV? > I always use TeXShop with an engine-file (in ~/Library/TeXShop/Engines), made executable, in this case mkiv-04-06.engine, which reads: #!/bin/bash source /Users/robert/context-minimals-04-06/tex/setuptex context "$1" It works on my other machines. Incidentally, I found that mkiv does not work on this machine with the october minimals either, so maybe it never worked on this PowerMac (Tiger). I failed to notice it because I always used mkii and I only started using mkiv recently. I cannot check it either, since I trashed earlier minimals. Kind regards, Robert Blackstone ___ 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 ___
Re: [NTG-context] Problem installing minimals on PowerMac G4
On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 16:40, Robert Blackstone wrote: > > When I try to process a file with mkiv, the log says: > "The argument > "/Users/robertblackstone/Dropbox/C-tests/Titles-interline_spacing_of/Titles-interline_spacing_of-test1PM.tex" > is not a valid TEXROOT path. How exactly do you run MKIV? 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 ___
Re: [NTG-context] Problem installing minimals on PowerMac G4
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 20:27:56 +0200 Mojca Miklavec wrote > Please send a complete log. > The saved Terminal output of an installation of the minimals which I tried this morning can be downloaded here: http://web.me.com/blackstone.robert/filechute/RB-Install_minimals_04-06-11-Saved_Terminal_Output.txt The process stopped 3 times (see lines 6612, 7698 and 7718.) but eventually finished. The result is that ConTeXt mkii works, but mkiv does not. When I try to process a file with mkiv, the log says: "The argument "/Users/robertblackstone/Dropbox/C-tests/Titles-interline_spacing_of/Titles-interline_spacing_of-test1PM.tex" is not a valid TEXROOT path. (There is no file "/Users/robertblackstone/Dropbox/C-tests/Titles-interline_spacing_of/Titles-interline_spacing_of-test1PM.tex/texmf/tex/plain/base/plain.tex") provide a proper tex root (like '. setuptex /something/tex') MtxRun | error unable to identify cnf file MtxRun | error unable to identify cnf file MtxRun | no cnf files found (TEXMFCNF may not be set/known) MtxRun | unknown script: context" Incidentally, when I run the same tex-file with mkiv on my G4 PowerBook, also installed today, the first two sentences of the log are the same. However, it does not ask me to provide a proper tex root and the file is processed normally. I would be grateful for any help but please don't spend too much time on it. I can live with the installation as it is now. Fortunately I have this other Mac on which the minimals work without problems. Kind regards, Robert Blackstone ___ 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 ___
Re: [NTG-context] Problem installing minimals on PowerMac G4
Please send a complete log. 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 ___
Re: [NTG-context] Problem installing minimals on PowerMac G4
On Thu, 2 Jun 2011 17:53:34 +0200 Mojca Miklavec wrote > Where did you install the minimals? First of all: thank you for your quick reply. As usual I installed it in a subdirectory of my Home directory. I would assume that there would not be any problems of permissions. However I did chmod -R 755 in this (sub)directory but to no avail. > Can you try > chown -R yourusername /path/to/installation Yes, I did, but again the process stopped. >> (I even do not know how to abort the process other than quitting Terminal.) > Ctrl-C (a couple of times), Ctrl-D, Ctrl-\, ... or killall (but I'm > not experience enough in giving you further details). Ctrl-C did nothing but Ctrl-D set the installation process in motion again. The result is that I can use mkii but not mkiv. I clearly need to experiment a bit more. Thanks again for your advice which really helped me. Robert Blackstone ___ 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 ___
Re: [NTG-context] Problem installing minimals on PowerMac G4
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 17:37, Robert Blackstone wrote: > Hi, > > When installing the current version of ConTeXt-minimals on my old > PowerMac G4 (OSX 10.4.11), on which the minimals have been installed, > and have worked, without any problems up till october last year, the > process stopped midway, because the file 'metafun' could not be > opened. Where did you install the minimals? Can you try chown -R yourusername /path/to/installation ? > The last lines of the log are: > > "TeXExec | using tex engine xetex > TeXExec | using tex format path ./xetex > TeXExec | unable to make format due to lack of permissions > TeXExec | using mp engine mpost > TeXExec | using mps format path . > TeXExec | generating mps format metafun > This is MetaPost, version 1.504 (kpathsea version 6.0.0) > ! I can't open file `metafun'. > <*> metafun > > Please type another input file name: " > > Does anybody know what can be done about this? > (I even do not know how to abort the process other than quitting Terminal.) Ctrl-C (a couple of times), Ctrl-D, Ctrl-\, ... or killall (but I'm not experience enough in giving you further details). 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 ___
[NTG-context] Problem installing minimals on PowerMac G4
Hi, When installing the current version of ConTeXt-minimals on my old PowerMac G4 (OSX 10.4.11), on which the minimals have been installed, and have worked, without any problems up till october last year, the process stopped midway, because the file 'metafun' could not be opened. The last lines of the log are: "TeXExec | using tex engine xetex TeXExec | using tex format path ./xetex TeXExec | unable to make format due to lack of permissions TeXExec | using mp engine mpost TeXExec | using mps format path . TeXExec | generating mps format metafun This is MetaPost, version 1.504 (kpathsea version 6.0.0) ! I can't open file `metafun'. <*> metafun Please type another input file name: " Does anybody know what can be done about this? (I even do not know how to abort the process other than quitting Terminal.) Incidentally, the PowerMac has not been used between october and now. Thanks in advance. Robert Blackstone ___ 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 ___
