[OS X TeX] Clean Machine, MacTeX 2013 installed, ConTeXt problem

[Gerben Wierda]

The problem was a '\xFF' on line 501 of /usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/scripts/context/ruby/base/switch.rb

If that is changed into \x01, it works.

G

On 17 Sep 2013, at 14:02, Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com> wrote:

> 
> On Sep 17, 2013, at 5:59 AM, Gerben Wierda <Gerben.Wierda at rna.nl> wrote:
> 
>> As my computer died I had to set up a clean one. I installed MacTeX 2013 and tried to compile a ConTeXt project, but this failed:
>> 
>> texexec --pdf --mode=editor --once ../products/prd_book.tex
>> 
>> resolvers       | caches | path '/Users/gerben/Library/texlive/2013/texmf-var' created/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.0/usr/lib/ruby/2.0.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:45:in `require': /usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/scripts/context/ruby/base/switch.rb:501: invalid multibyte escape: /\xFF/ (SyntaxError)
>> 	from /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.0/usr/lib/ruby/2.0.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:45:in `require'
>> 	from /usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/scripts/context/ruby/texexec.rb:11:in `<main>'
>> 
>> It seems a problem in a ruby file in MacTeX 2013. Can someone help me get this working?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> G
> 
> Howdy,
> 
> Nice hearing from you!
> 
> I'm certainly no expert in ConTeXt so I wonder what happens if you leave out the  --mode=editor  and --once options. I'm still using TeXShop and its internal context (mkii) engine doesn't use those options and seems to work fine on my very simple test files.
> 
> Have you updated TeX Live either using TeX Live Utility or tlmgr since the install? There have been many updates to ConTeXt since release.
> 
> Good Luck,
> 
> Herb Schulz
> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
> 
> 
> 
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