On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 9:03 AM, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
Norbert Preining wrote:
Well not surprising ... there is NO context script anywhere in the distribution!
Am I missing something?
The script is:
scripts/context/lua/mtx-context.lua
If mtxrun cannot find it, something went wrong running
luatools --generate
It seems to me that this is actually a yet unanswered FAQ: - the thread about AucTeX on ntg-context - Oliver asked me about how to run LuaTeX without having to set any environmental variables except for PATH adjustment; that would make the mac installer much easier to cope with - in most TeX distributions, one simply puts texmf.cnf somewhere above the binary (selfautoparent trickery), and then everything works out of the box - similar question raised by Vyatcheslav for Windows - I often have problems in my editor; if I launch it from terminal with proper environmental variables set, then it works OK, but if I want to launch it from menu, then it sometimes works and sometimes not (some weird interference with the existing distribution, in most cases it just doesn't find the cont-en.fmt and stops there already) I just wanted to raise the question as it appears in just every installation of TeX where one wants to use ConTeXt with LuaTeX. As long as one runs source setuptex in minimals, or source ~/.luatex in Thomas' instructions of hard-coded paths then LuaTeX runs OK, but if one would like to run LuaTeX without explicitly setting environmental variables (problematic within TeX editors), one soon runs into problems. Minimals contain texmf.cnf hidden somewhere in the tree. But even if I put in in the top folder, it doesn't help much. Hans also uses setuptex.tmf for reading settings with LuaTeX in some way, but again, it doesn't happen automatically. Jonathan Kew also told me that it should be enough to have a proper version of texmf.cnf in the top folder, and then setting PATH to include binaries should be enough. LuaTeX now works on standalone ConTeXt installation for more than a year, but it would be nice to make it work on Debian, TeX Live, MikTeX (that will soon provide it) ... as well. Any ideas if getting rid of dependency on environmental variables is doable? Mojca PS: ping hans@miktex