On Tue, 02 Oct 2007 09:56:23 +0200 Hans Hagen wrote:

Dalyoung Jeong wrote:

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Thank you for your mail. Since there is no echo at all on this matter for a few days, I think that I am the only person who has the installation problem.

well, i have no mac -)

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LuaTools | loading /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf LuaTools | skipping /./texmf.cnfError in lua file loading: /usr/ texbin/luatools:1108: bad argument #1 to 'sum' (string expected, got table)

hm, is there something weird in the cnf file?

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As you see, the output of luatools --variables also gave the same output.

~ dalyoung$ luatools --variables Error in lua file loading: /usr/texbin/luatools:1108: bad argument #1 to 'sum' (string expected, got table) ~ dalyoung$ luatools --show-path Error in lua file loading: /usr/texbin/luatools:1108: bad argument #1 to 'sum' (string expected, got table)

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There may be something that is unknown to us in our system. For information, I use mac G5(OSX 10.4.10, PPC) and installed MacTeX 2007 version.

That is all that I can say right now. If you have anything good, please let me know.

i remember problems with parsing filenames that had weird chars

what is in line 1108 of your luatools?

I have the same error message on my wndows machine but the setuptex script solves this for me und LuaTeX is working. Wolfgang

Dear Thomas, dear Dalyoung, dear all, Thank you so much for the detailed procedure you sent about installing LuaTeX on MacOS X. I could follow your instructions up to some point, but I must confess that I ended up into some confusion when you say

After that, we create symbolic links to these programs in the directory where we installed luatex: # cd /usr/local/texlive/2007/bin/i386-darwin/pdftex # sudo ln -s /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/scripts/context/lua/ luatools.lua luatools # sudo ln -s /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/scripts/context/lua/ mtxrun.lua mtxrun

Indeed the binary paths I have for my TeX programs are /usr/local/gwTeX/bin/ /usr/texbin of which the first one contains the directory /usr/local/gwTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin7.9.0 However, in this directory I only have a file "pdftex" which is not a directory, and therefore the command cd /usr/local/gwTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin7.9.0/pdftex/ results in: bash: cd: /usr/local/gwTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin7.9.0/pdftex/: Not a directory (By the way the command "rehash" you mention in your instructions does not exist, so I had to use sudo texhash instead. Also, in order to "export" the environment variables as you mention in your instructions, I had to switch to "bash", the "Bourne Again Shell". However these are not the main issues). So it seems that the procedures for installing LuaTeX are not yet thouroughly straightforward, and persons like Dalyoung and me have to wait a little bit... Once again thanks for your patience and help though! Best regards: OK On 2 oct. 2007, at 19:53, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:

On Oct 1, 2007, at 11:31 PM, Otared Kavian wrote:

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Dear Dalyoung,

Like many other ConTeXt users I followed up the many threads about how to install, successfully, LuaTeX. In particular I was interested in your experience since I had more or less the same problems as the ones you described in your latest messages on the list. Now my question is: did you succeed to install and use LuaTeX on Mac OS X? --- If yes, could you please describe how you did proceed? --- If no, this means we have to wait more for our salvation...

Thanks for your attention and best regards: OK

OK, I have just summarized my own experience with luatex. Please comment; if this is helpful at all, we should put it on the wiki.

Thomas

Setting up luatex on OS X

The following remarks are not more than an amplification of what Hans writes in magazin #12. However, since some users have had difficulties, here's a short summary of the steps that I have followed on my system (OS X 10.4; system language set to English; vanilla TeXLive installation) to work with luatex.

1. Get the latest ConTeXt version.

Download the latest cont-tmf.zip at www.pragma-ade.com (either stable or beta). Unzip this file in a texmf-tree. It is recommended that you do this in a local tree. This way, if you ever have problems, you can just delete this local tree and continue working with the stable tree that came with your distribution. If you don't know where your local texmf tree is located, follow these directions (a line with # in front means you should type the line following this # into your Terminal window; press "Return" at the end of the line. Comments or explanations which should not be retyped are included in <> brackets. Please be careful to retype exactly, leaving all the quotes etc. in place!).

# kpsewhich --expand-var '$TEXMFLOCAL'

On my system, this expands to /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local

Now go to this directory

# cd /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local

download the file cont-tmf.zip to this directory and unzip it. On most systems, you will need superuser rights to do this; after entering the sudo command, you will be asked for your password.

# sudo unzip cont-tmf.zip Password: # Archive: cont-tmf.zip replace bibtex/bst/context/cont-ab.bst? [y]es, [n]o, [A]ll, [N]one, [r]ename: # <type A> <then type RETURN>

After this, a long list of files will scroll by.

2. Regenerate the formats

While we're at it, we might as well regenerate the formats for pdftex- based ConTeXT:

# sudo texmfstart texexec --make --all --pdftex

You'll see the output on the Terminal; at the end, texexec should tell you that it has regenerated all the formats. TeXExec | TeXExec | tex engine path: /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-config/web2c/ pdftex TeXExec | mps engine path: /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-config/web2c TeXExec | TeXExec | tex: 02/10/2007 17:50:43 > /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf- config/web2c/pdftex/cont-en.fmt (7392414) TeXExec | tex: 02/10/2007 17:50:57 > /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf- config/web2c/pdftex/cont-nl.fmt (7473512) TeXExec | tex: 02/10/2007 17:50:57 > /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf- config/web2c/pdftex/mptopdf.fmt (277947) TeXExec | mps: 02/10/2007 17:50:58 > /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf- config/web2c/metafun.mem (482192) TeXExec | TeXExec | runtime: 7.575246

3. Set environment variables

In its current beta stadium, luatex needs some environment variables to be set; this will probably change soon. In my experiments, on OS X, it needs these four variables:

TEXMFCACHE: this decides where the luatex-cache directory will be created. If you set this variable to a temporary directory such as /tmp, it will be deleted at every reboot. This is a good idea since luatex caches lots of files and paths in this directory, so it makes sense to refresh this directory often.

TEXMFCNF: This should point to the directory where the file texmf.cnf which your TeX installation uses is located. In order to find out where this is, run this command:

#kpsewhich texmf.cnf

On my system, this points to /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf so we need to set TEXMFCNF to /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf/web2c.

TEXMF This should list ALL texmf trees which your TeX installation uses. In order to know what these trees are, run this command:

# kpsewhich --expand-var '$TEXMF'

The output of this command on my system is:

{/Users/tas/.texlive2007/texmf-config,/Users/tas/.texlive2007/texmf- var,/Users/tas/texmf,!!/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-config,!!/usr/ local/texlive/2007/texmf-var,!!/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf,!!/usr/ local/texlive/2007/../texmf-local,!!/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf- dist,!!/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf.gwtex}

In this form, the list contains a few shortcuts and symbols which are special to kpsewhich. Remove all the exclamation marks; if there are other shortcuts in your output, bring it into a flat list of Unix directories.

LUAINPUTS

These are the directories where the lua scripts are located, they are on my system:

{/usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/tex/context/base,/usr/local/texlive/ texmf-local/scripts/context/lua,/Users/tas/texmf/scripts/context/lua}

Since these variables will have to be set every time you run luaTeX, it makes sense to automate the process. So we collect all the definitions like so (these are the values on my system; adapt to your setup!):

export TEXMFCACHE="/tmp" export TEXMFCNF="/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf/web2c" export TEXMF="{/Users/tas/.texlive2007/texmf-config,/Users/ tas/.texlive2007/texmf-var,/Users/tas/texmf,/usr/local/texlive/2007/ texmf-config,/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-var,/usr/local/texlive/ 2007/texmf,/usr/local/texlive/texmf-local,/usr/local/texlive/2007/ texmf-dist,/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf.gwtex}" export LUAINPUTS="{/usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/tex/context/base,/ usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/scripts/context/lua,/Users/tas/texmf/ scripts/context/lua}"

There are two ways you can set these variables easily:

a. put them in a file; let's call this file .luatex. Every time you want to run luatex, just say

# source .luatex

in your terminal.

b. If you want these variables to be set every time you log into your computer, put them in a file .bashrc in your home directory (this only works if your shell is bash, the default shell in OS X 10.4 and 10.3. If you have never tinkered with the shell, it probably is).

Let's test if setting the variables has worked:

# echo $TEXMF

the output on my system is:

{/Users/tas/.texlive2007/texmf-config,/Users/tas/.texlive2007/texmf- var,/Users/tas/texmf,/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-config,/usr/local/ texlive/2007/texmf-var,/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf,/usr/local/ texlive/texmf-local,/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist,/usr/local/ texlive/2007/texmf.gwtex}

4. Installing the binaries.

We now have to install and tweak the necessary binaries. First, of course, luatex itself. We put it in the same directory with all the other TeX binaries. To determine where that is, we issue

# which pdftex

/usr/local/texlive/2007/bin/i386-darwin/pdftex

So we get the latest luatex from www.luatex.org and copy it to this directory. We also create two links to luatex:

# cd /usr/local/texlive/2007/bin/i386-darwin/pdftex # sudo ln -s luatex texlua # sudo ln -s luatex texluac

There are two more lua scripts which need to be installed. Unfortunately, Hans uses a different operating system, so we need to make them executable first. Go to the directory where you installed your ConTeXt update, so in my case:

# cd /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/scripts/context/lua/ # sudo chmod 755 mtxrun.lua # sudo chmod 755 luatools.lua

After that, we create symbolic links to these programs in the directory where we installed luatex: # cd /usr/local/texlive/2007/bin/i386-darwin/pdftex # sudo ln -s /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/scripts/context/lua/ luatools.lua luatools # sudo ln -s /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/scripts/context/lua/ mtxrun.lua mtxrun

Again, let's test if this has worked: # rehash # which luatools /usr/local/texlive/2007/bin/i386-darwin/luatools

5. Generating the Database and the formats

You're almost there! Now let luatools generate its internal database: # luatools --generate

Again, a long list of stuff will scroll by (if luatools gives just a fewlines of output, you know that you've made a mistake somewhere along the way). Here's the beginning and end on my system:

LuaTools | loading /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf LuaTools | preparing configuration in /tmp/luatex-cache/context/ 6da32d2ec193ac6d2428d020ce069374/trees/ 6da32d2ec193ac6d2428d020ce069374.tma LuaTools | saving configuration in /tmp/luatex-cache/context/ 6da32d2ec193ac6d2428d020ce069374/trees/ 6da32d2ec193ac6d2428d020ce069374.tma

[snip]

LuaTools | saving files in /tmp/luatex-cache/context/ 6da32d2ec193ac6d2428d020ce069374/trees/ 729867c88f88a392262749cb9c3d602b.tma LuaTools | compiling files to /tmp/luatex-cache/context/ 6da32d2ec193ac6d2428d020ce069374/trees/ 729867c88f88a392262749cb9c3d602b.tmc LuaTools | LuaTools | runtime: 9.74 seconds

We test if luatex is able to find files:

# luatools cont-new.tex /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/tex/context/base/cont-new.tex

Then, we generate the formats for luatex:

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

Again, many lines of output, among those the confirmation that the formats have been built and installed:

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 This is luaTeX, Version 3.141592-beta-0.11.2-2007091918 (Web2C 7.5.6) (INITEX)

[snip]

ConTeXt ver: 2007.09.28 16:52 MKIV fmt: 2007.10.2 int: english/ english

lua : used config path - /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf/web2c lua : used cache path - /tmp/luatex-cache/context/ 6da32d2ec193ac6d2428d020ce069374 ) Beginning to dump on file cont-en.fmt (format=cont-en 2007.10.2)

And that's it! Now you can create your first test file and typeset it with luatex:

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On 10/4/07, Otared Kavian wrote:

So it seems that the procedures for installing LuaTeX are not yet thouroughly straightforward, and persons like Dalyoung and me have to wait a little bit...

I have never been stubborn enough in order to try to make luatex work over the existing gwTeX, so I have been always using Hans's minimals (you need to download justtex.zip and macosxtex.zip, unzip them and run ". setuptex"). If you only want to play with luaTeX, here's something experimental that you can test if you have rsync (no warranty that the structure will remain the same): rsync -rvzctl rsync://contextgarden.net/minimals/minimals/mac-ppc/ mytex cd mytex . setuptex mktexlsr luatools --generate texexec --lua --make --all texexec --make --all and then you should be able to compile your document with texexec --lua something (as long as you stay in the same terminal) Mojca