On 14 apr 2008, at 00:38, Arthur Reutenauer wrote:
luatools --ini plain
Instead of the expected output 120,808 plain.fmt etc. I get an error: "There is no lua initialization file found. ..."
The ConTeXt tools don't support plain. If you really want a plain format for LuaTeX you can run luatex -ini instead:
luatex -ini -jobname=luatex plain \\dump
But why do you want plain LuaTeX in the first place? If it's only to test the mk document, you should realize it's not a user manual.
Why I am doing this? Just because I want to experiment with luatex and to acquire experience using it. And what better to start with then examples given in the accompanying document. It might not be a user manual, but does that mean its information is not to be used? I am quite aware of the preliminary nature of the document. That is what this newsgroup is for. By the way, Hans Hagen in the mean time corrected the call to "luatools --make plain". Hans van der Meer