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

On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 3:37 PM, Otared Kavian <otared@gmail.com> wrote:

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).

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 :-)

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,

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.