Re: [NTG-context] luatex 0.30.1

On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 7:56 PM, Otared Kavian wrote:

On 19 oct. 08, at 17:28, luigi scarso wrote:

On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 3:37 PM, Otared Kavian wrote:

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Up to now I didn't have installed the minimals through the commands given on the Garden. However, since you told me that it works fine, I just tried to install the minimals too, but while generating the formats I get:

! LuaTeX error ...mini/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/luat-tex.lua:322: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'total' (a nil value). <*> ...texmf-context/tex/context/base/cont-nl.tex \dump

actually luatex is not good You should hit return until installation end; then install luatex from trunk; then remake format with context --generate context --make Now you must have no errors anymore .

I did again what you suggest, but no better result: /Applications/context-mini/tex/texmf-osx-intel/bin/context --generate results in 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 (same thing with /Applications/context-mini/tex/texmf-osx-intel/bin/context --make).

Did you have made . setuptex (watch for the dot!) ?

Something strange which I don't know whether it is "legal" or not, is that if I use the luatols in the Context-Minimal folder, to generate, that is: /Applications/context-mini/tex/texmf-osx-intel/bin/luatools --generate then luatools uses for some reason what I have in my TeXLive 2008 directory that is what is in /usr/local/texlive/2008/ and if I rename the /usr/local/texlive to something else, then /Applications/context-mini/tex/texmf-osx-intel/bin/luatools --generate returns: env: texlua: No such file or directory

I thought what one installs with the Minimals is independent of TeXLive 2008 though…

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Can you try context --generate context basic-test

Again these do not result in anything good: same output as above, when I say context --make.

Now that I have done what you suggested, the mkii in the Minimals does not ork either :-)

Sorry for that !

Saying /Applications/context-mini/tex/texmf-osx-intel/bin/texexec basic-test.tex results in:

FatalError : Your format does not match the base files!

FormatVersion : 2008.10.08 23:34 MKII FilesVersion : 2008.10.17 10:41 and again the reason seems to be that the texxec in the Minimals uses /usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/cont-new.tex which doesn't seem to be "normal".

I think the best I can do is to wait for something more stable to play with.

For my serious work I avoid up to now to use mkiv,

With the finger crossed I will start tomorrow a project in mkiv

but I would like to test what Hans, Taco and others are doing, at least to help find bugs for the Right to Left typesetting.

It's important, so I write how I setup my minimals on a linux box 1) mkdir -p /opt/luatex/minimals-beta 2) cd /opt/luatex/minimals-beta 2a) Now put here first-setup.sh (see contextgarden.net/minimals) 3) ./first-setup.sh 3a)If there are some errors due a luatex version; hit return until the end 4) cd tex 5) . setuptex 5a)Now, if you have compiled luatex from svn, put it into texmf-linux/bin 6) context --generate 7) context --make 7a)not errors anymore, I hope. 8)Every time I start a mkiv session I do cd /opt/luatex/minimals-beta/tex . setuptext as first step to ensure correct initilizatione of env variables. 9a)context --generate 9b)context --make to unsure a clean session. 10) always use context to make pdf; ie test your file with context basic-test.tex If you open first-setup.sh and change this line mtxrun --verbose --script ./bin/mtx-update.lua --update --make --force --engine=all --context=beta --tree=$PWD/tex $@ in mtxrun --verbose --script ./bin/mtx-update.lua --update --make --force --engine=all --tree=$PWD/tex $@ and then 1) mkdir -p /opt/luatex/minimals 2)... you can then end with a minimal installation Actually I have minimals-beta, minimal and tl2008 completly unrelated so each installations has is own fonts etc etc. It's ok, because minimals and minimals-beta are not so huge and I want to be sure that minimals-beta and minimals work -- luigi