Re: [NTG-context] luatex 0.30.1

19 Oct 2008

      On 19 oct. 08, at 17:28, luigi scarso wrote:
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On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 3:37 PM, Otared Kavian   
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.

Grazie mille e forse a presto…

Best regards: OK