I wanted to get a clean, up-to-date installation of Context on Windows (without using rsync), so started from scratch as follows:
1. Downloaded http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/install/minimals-snapshot-mswin.zip 2. Unzipped to C:\Tools\context 3. Renamed C:\Tools\context\texmf-context to texmf-context-old 4. Downloaded cont-tmf.zip and unzipped contents to c:\Tools\context\texmf-context 3. From command window, ran: cd \Tools\context setuptex mktexlsr luatools --generate luatools --selfupdate mtxrun --selfupdate texexec --make context --make 4. To generate new pdf, ran: context testdoc.tex
Everything seemed to execute without errors until the last step which returned:
MtxRun | loading configuration for C:/Tools/context/texmf/web2c from C:/Tools/context/texmf-cache/luatex-
cache/context/b7bcb6722e1fe509b85ff004c33e8274/trees/90e2367b37b32bcc25e442581c9e72e2
MtxRun | run 1: luatex --fmt="C:/Tools/context/texmf-cache/luatex- cache/context/b7bcb6722e1fe509b85ff004c33e8274/formats/cont-en"
--lua="C:/Tools/context/texmf-cache/luatex- cache/context/b7bcb6722e1fe509b85ff004c33e8274/formats/cont-en.lua" "./testdoc.tex" luatex.exe: C:/Tools/context/texmf-cache/luatex- cache/context/b7bcb6722e1fe509b85ff004c33e8274/formats/cont-en.fmt: No such file or directory MtxRun | fatal error, code: 1
Looking at the source directory, a file "testdoc.top" has been created but nothing else.
Can someone please point me towards a next step?
Thanks,
Richard
P.S. I tried copying cont-en.fmt from "C:\Tools\context\texmf-mswin\web2c\luatex\pdftex" to the cache directory but got "Fatal format file error, I'm stymied".
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