On Dec 6, 2007, at 12:08 AM, Idris Samawi Hamid wrote:

On Wed, 05 Dec 2007 15:40:50 -0700, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:

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Oops, I was too fast upgrading... luatex fails to produce format files on my system:

luatex --version This is LuaTeX, Version snapshot-0.20.0-2007120515

luatools --ini --compile cont-en

LuaTools | creating initialization file cont-en LuaTools | using library path : /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/tex/ context/base LuaTools | using lua libraries: l-string.lua l-table.lua l- boolean.lua l-number.lua l-unicode.lua l-md5.lua l-os.lua l-io.lua l-file.lua l- dir.lua l-utils.lua l-tex.lua luat-lib.lua luat-inp.lua luat-tmp.lua luat-zip.lua luat-tex.lua LuaTools | using compiled initialization file cont-en.luc LuaTools | using lua initialization file cont-en.luc LuaTools | running command: luatex --ini --lua="cont-en.luc" "/usr/ local/texlive/texmf-local/tex/context/base/cont-en.tex" \dump Error in lua file loading: ?:0: attempt to call field '?' (a nil value)

LuaTools | LuaTools | runtime: 0.37 seconds

Did you move the latest luatools.lua and mtxrun.lua from /scripts/context/lua to your /bin?

Bingo, Idris, that was it! Thanks for the quick solution. I was sure I was using symlinks so wasn't paying attention, but I somehow had copied the files. Now it works, sorry for the noise. Thomas

Arthur Reutenauer wrote:

That particular line:

# Error in lua file loading: ?:0: attempt to call field '?' (a nil value)

is often the sign of mismatching luatools and ConTeXt version :-)

indeed, make sure that luatools --generate is run; many new files ... ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------

Hi Thomas, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:

On Dec 6, 2007, at 8:26 AM, Arthur Reutenauer wrote:

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That particular line:

# Error in lua file loading: ?:0: attempt to call field '?' (a nil value)

is often the sign of mismatching luatools and ConTeXt version :-)

Arthur

Yes, thanks for your help, now it works wonderfully. On a related note: this big new release had me waiting in anticipation, so would it be possible to just tell us in a sentence or five or six what the big changes are? I guess with the right switches it can cook my dinner, but would be curious to learn a bit more...

Well, I have two detail pages in the wiki ... but it is pretty hard to come up with a consise list of improvements. Mostly, mkiv is just faster and better than it was already. :-) http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Context_2007.12.05 http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Context_2007.12.06 Best wishes, Taco

Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

the new release did work for me with LuaTeX but the mkii part give a error message in conbination with XeTeX., only a short error message but it should be also fixed.

Line 53 in regi-ini.mkii use in a message for XeTeX "\m!regime" as messageconstant and not "\m!regimes".

i will probably post an updated zip later today, i noticed that in base mode kerns got lost (has to do with using an optimized otf table in the cache; i never adapted the base code to that) 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------