On 2/12/2023 5:34 PM, Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context wrote:
On 2/12/23 16:28, Tommaso Gordini via ntg-context wrote:
[...] However, I also get this:
charlie@Air-di-Tommaso ~ % luametatex startup error : no format file given, quitting
Hi Tommaso,
my ConTeXt LMTX is fully functional and I get this message too. sure, because that message is okay: luametatex cannot do anything useful until it is properly initialized so you need to either run it in ini mode or provide a format file (made in ini mode)
just ask yourself: what would you expect the 'luametatex' command (without any commandline argumment) to do ... it has to be told how to read files, what primitives to enable, how to locate and load fonts, how to produce backend code ... not much different from running 'lua' or whatever scripting language that expects some source to work with the 'mtxrun' and 'context' commands are basically 'luametatex' with a different name so that it knows what script / format to load Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.nl | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------