George N. White III wrote:

debian (unstable,testing?) users can get a snapshot release of luatex in apt package form.

This works for me, but there are a few things that needed slight adjustment, so I wanted to report them here to encourage others to start testing it.

I needed to set TEXMF=/etc/texmf. Luatools doesn't seem to handle the {..} in the variables that are combined in TEXMF. Also, when it didn't find

hm, it should handle the {} ok (well, i did rewrite that part a bit because it didn't handle some cases; can you send me the TEXMF spec that failed?)

AlProTex.sty, the message indicated that it couldn't find AlProTeX.sty ('x'-->'X')!

ls c:/data/develop/tex/texmf/tex/generic/dratex/AlProTeX.sty /dev/fs/C/data/develop/tex/texmf/tex/generic/dratex/AlProTex.sty

kpsewhich AlProTeX.sty c:/data/develop/tex/texmf/tex/generic/dratex/AlProTeX.sty

luatools AlProTeX.sty c:/data/develop/tex/texmf/tex/generic/dratex/AlProTex.sty

so, the file actually is named with an 'x' ; luatools (i.e. the file handler written in lua) can handle mixed cases in a way that it will always resolve to the syetem filename, here the one with th elower case x; so i guess that kpse is reporting wrong is there an alias file involved (i ignore that one, actually alias files are not supposed to exist any longer)

For testing, you can just set some simplified TEXMF, e.g.,:

export TEXMF={$HOME/texmf,/usr/local/texmf,/usr/share/texmf-texlive,/usr/share/texmf}

or you can edit /etc/texmf/texmf.d/05TeXMF.cnf to simplify things like:

TEXMFDIST = /usr/share/texmf-{texlive,tetex}

In my case, I no longer have texmf-textex, so this became just

TEXMFDIST = /usr/share/texmf-texlive

Then run: "update-texmf" and "luatools --generate"

You can check the TEXMF variable with:

$ luatools --expand-var TEXMF

More tests to make sure the configuration is working:

$ luatools msam7.afm /usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/afm/bluesky/ams/msam7.afm

Then build the format:

$ luatools --ini --verbose --compile cont-en

and compile something:

$ texexec --luatex foo TeXExec | processing document 'foo' TeXExec | no ctx file found TeXExec | tex processing method: context TeXExec | TeX run 1 TeXExec | writing option file foo.top TeXExec | using randomseed 967 TeXExec | tex engine: luatex TeXExec | tex format: cont-en

This is luaTeX, Version 3.141592-beta-0.11.2-2007092410 (Web2C 7.5.6) (./foo.tex

ConTeXt ver: 2007.09.28 16:52 MKIV fmt: 2007.10.12 int: english/english [...]

btw, i have to find a way to report that a cache path is not present of writable Hans -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------