On 5 Dec 2017, at 16:41, Jan U. Hasecke <juh+ntg-context@mailbox.org> wrote:

contextgarden is full of letter examples. But even the first simple
example here http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Letter#Example does not
compile.

same here:


mtx-context     | run 1: luatex --fmt="/Applications/ConTeXt/tex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/5fe67e0bfe781ce0dde776fb1556f32e/formats/luatex/cont-en" --jobname="test" --lua="/Applications/ConTeXt/tex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/5fe67e0bfe781ce0dde776fb1556f32e/formats/luatex/cont-en.lui" --no-parse-first-line --c:currentrun=1 --c:fulljobname="/Users/vm/Desktop/tex/test.tex" --c:input="/Users/vm/Desktop/tex/test.tex" --c:kindofrun=1 --c:maxnofruns=9 "cont-yes.mkiv"
This is LuaTeX, Version 1.05.0 (TeX Live 2017) 
 system commands enabled.
open source     > level 1, order 1, name '/Applications/ConTeXt/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/mkiv/cont-yes.mkiv'
system          > 
system          > ConTeXt  ver: 2017.11.01 15:58 MKIV beta  fmt: 2017.11.8  int: english/english
system          > 
system          > 'cont-new.mkiv' loaded
open source     > level 2, order 2, name '/Applications/ConTeXt/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/mkiv/cont-new.mkiv'
close source    > level 2, order 2, name '/Applications/ConTeXt/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/mkiv/cont-new.mkiv'
system          > files > jobname 'test', input '/Users/vm/Desktop/tex/test', result 'test'
fonts           > latin modern fonts are not preloaded
languages       > language 'en' is active
open source     > level 2, order 3, name '/Users/vm/Desktop/tex/test.tex'
modules         > 'letter' is loaded
open source     > level 3, order 4, name '/Applications/ConTeXt/tex/texmf-modules/tex/context/third/letter/base/s-cor-01.mkvi'
modules         > 'cor-00' is loaded
open source     > level 4, order 5, name '/Applications/ConTeXt/tex/texmf-modules/tex/context/third/letter/base/s-cor-00.mkvi'

lua error       > lua error on line 30 in file /Applications/ConTeXt/tex/texmf-modules/tex/context/third/letter/base/s-cor-00.mkvi:

...eXt/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/mkiv/luat-cod.lua:47: bad argument #1 to 'gmatch' (string expected, got nil)
stack traceback:
[C]: in function 'gmatch'
...eXt/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/mkiv/luat-cod.lua:47: in function 'registercode'
[ctxlua]:1: in main chunk

20     %C MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
21     %C GNU General Public License for more details.
22     %C
23     %C You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
24     %C along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
25     
26     \unprotect
27     
28     % Lua functions for the core and also for the frontend modules
29     
30 >>  \ctxloadluafile{s-cor-00}
31     
32     % Constants and variables
33      
34     \startinterface all
35       \setinterfaceconstant {whitespace}      {whitespace}
36       \setinterfaceconstant {backgroundimage} {backgroundimage}
37       \setinterfaceconstant {fromname}        {fromname}
38       \setinterfaceconstant {fromaddress}     {fromaddress}
39       \setinterfaceconstant {attention}       {attention}
40       \setinterfaceconstant {subject}         {subject}




lua error       > lua error on line 30 in file /Applications/ConTeXt/tex/texmf-modules/tex/context/third/letter/base/s-cor-00.mkvi:

...eXt/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/mkiv/luat-cod.lua:47: bad argument #1 to 'gmatch' (string expected, got nil)
stack traceback:
[C]: in function 'gmatch'
...eXt/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/mkiv/luat-cod.lua:47: in function 'registercode'
[ctxlua]:1: in main chunk

20     %C MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
21     %C GNU General Public License for more details.
22     %C
23     %C You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
24     %C along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
25     
26     \unprotect
27     
28     % Lua functions for the core and also for the frontend modules
29     
30 >>  \ctxloadluafile{s-cor-00}
31     
32     % Constants and variables
33      
34     \startinterface all
35       \setinterfaceconstant {whitespace}      {whitespace}
36       \setinterfaceconstant {backgroundimage} {backgroundimage}
37       \setinterfaceconstant {fromname}        {fromname}
38       \setinterfaceconstant {fromaddress}     {fromaddress}
39       \setinterfaceconstant {attention}       {attention}
40       \setinterfaceconstant {subject}         {subject}



mtx-context     | fatal error: return code: 1