On generating the format with "luatools --ini --compile --verbose cont-en" I got this error: ! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [pool size=93529]. It seems that the setting of TEXMFCNF given in mag12 (/tex/texmf- local/web2c) was insufficient for getting the setup parameters for TeX format generation. For my texlive setup I translated the mag12 entry into: TEXMFCNF="{/usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/web2c,/usr/local/texlive/ 2007/texmf/web2c}" But at least I needed: TEXMFCNF="{/usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/web2c,/usr/local/texlive/ 2007/texmf/web2c}" I hope others may profit from this observation. By the way, the following seems very strange as luatools tells me: LuaTools | loading /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf LuaTools | skipping /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/web2c/texmf.cnf The name of the file in the context distribution however is "/usr/ local/texlive/texmf-local/web2c/context.cnf" but it is not searched for! COULD THIS BE A MISNOMER, either in a script or in the file name? Hans van der Meer