Michael Saunders wrote:
Thank you.
I had never heard of "luatex/mkiv format" before---I have just been trying to follow the four or five conflicting pages about installation that I found at Context Garden. I did a Google search there for "luatex format", which does not occur, and for "mkiv format", which occurs once, under a heading about updating existing installations. It says:
* For making MKIV format
luatools --selfupdate mtxrun --selfupdate luatools --generate context --make
I tried these commands and, indeed they ran.
I also changed my command line to: context --interface=en --language=en test.tex I had been trying to follow the example on the Context Garden page, which contained the incorrect command and flags you saw.
Now when I run context, I get less promising output than before:
MTXrun | run 1: luatex --fmt="C:contextminimal/tex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/d1d2ccfb3346ff481f4c4dab022cb26d/fomats/cont-en" --lua="C:contextminimal/tex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/d1d2ccfb3346ff481f4c4dab022cb26d/fomats/cont-en.lui" --backen MTXrun | fatal error: no return code, message: luatex: No such file or directory
Hm, this looks like a PATH error. After all, you ran context --make on the commandline and that worked, so it should also be able to work from texniccenter. Best wishes, Taco