Hi Wolfgang!

···<date: 2014-03-02, Sunday>···<from: Wolfgang Schuster>···

> Am 19.02.2014 um 19:31 schrieb Philipp Gesang <Philipp.Gesang@alumni.uni-heidelberg.de>:
> 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > with the most recent Minimals (2014.02.14 17:07) building the
> > Luatex Plain format no longer works:
> > 
> >    $ mtxrun --script plain --make
> > 
> >    ... 
> > 
> >    mtx-plain       | running command 'luatex --ini luatex-plain.tex \dump'
> >    This is LuaTeX, Version beta-0.78.2 (TeX Live 2014/dev) (rev 4746)  (INITEX)
> >     \write18 enabled.
> > 
> >    (/home/phg/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/generic/context/luatex/luatex-plain.te
> >    x (/home/phg/context/tex/texmf/tex/plain/base/plain.tex
> >    Preloading the plain format: codes, registers, parameters, fonts, more fonts,
> >    ! Font \preloaded=manfnt not loadable: metric data not found or bad.
> >    <to be read again> 
> >    \par 
> >    l.468 
> > 
> >    ? 
> > 
> > Same when building manually. Can anyone reproduce this?
> 
> The context suite doesn’t include the manual fonts [1] which are required for the plain TeX format.
> 
> [1] http://www.ctan.org/pkg/manual

Yes, I’ve been using the tfm from texlive since. I’m unsure as to
why the file was removed from the Context suite.

Thanks for looking into this!
Philipp