Re: mtxrun

[Hans van der Meer <H.vanderMeer@uva.nl>]

On 17 jun 2008, at 21:47, Aditya Mahajan wrote:

> On Tue, 17 Jun 2008, Hans van der Meer wrote:
>
>> Following the article  "The luafication of TeX and Context" in the
>> recent issue of the NTG-MAPS I tried the example given:
>>    mtxrun --script fonts
>> and this should return the options list for this script.
>> However, I get:
>>    101 ~: mtxrun --script fonts
>>    cannot open : No such file or directory
>> While otherwise a bare mtxrun returns info and thus was found as a
>> runnable script:
>>    102 ~: mtxrun
>>    MtxRun | version 1.0.2 - 2007+ - PRAGMA ADE / CONTEXT
>>   MtxRun | --script              run an mtx script
>> In my .bashrc I had the lua scripts in the path:
>> 103 ~: echo $PATH
>>   ..:/usr/local/texlive/texmf-context/scripts/context/lua/:..
>> And I had called luatools --generate to make the database plus I made
>> certain the script has execute permissions:
>> /usr/local/texlive/texmf-context/scripts/context/lua/mtx-fonts.lua -
>> rwxr-xr-x
>>
>> What is wrong or what I am doing wrong?
>
> With old (almost 6-8 months ago) mtxrun, I had to set LUAINPUTS to get
> mtxrun --script to work. Now it works without the LUAINPUTS  
> variable. I
> don't remember when the change happened.
>
> Your mtxrun says version 1.0.2, mine says 1.1.0. So, try with the
> LUAINPUTS variable, or try mtxrun --selfupdate.

That is strange. I have the context distribution from 2008-05-21 and  
in it mtxrun.lua has the line: banner = "version 1.0.2 - 2007+ -  
PRAGMA ADE / CONTEXT". Is version 1.1.0 in an experimental version? (I  
keep away from beta versions, fearing something will break at the  
wrong moment -- surely one of Murphy's law will take over at a time  
when one cannot afford it ;-)

I did 'mtxrun --selfupdate', as Hans Hagen suggested, but no change.
Also I have a path variable LUAINPUTS to no avail:
103 ~: echo $LUAINPUTS
/usr/local/texlive/texmf-context/scripts/context/lua
Running 'luatools --generate' makes no difference.

Taco Hoekwater suggested the culprit might be msdos line-endings, but  
I don't have these.

Could it be the directory structure in my setup?
   /usr/local/texlive/2007/bin/powerpc-darwin/mtxrun (symlink with 'ln  
-s')
   /usr/local/texlive/texmf-context/scripts/context/lua/mtx-*.lua

So, I am still stuck with
"cannot open : No such file or directory."
on calling 'mtxrun --script fonts' etc.
The most strange of all is that 'mtxrun --script cache' and all the  
others do give me the list op options on the cache script. (mtx- 
web.lua being absent in the distribution). So only script fonts seems  
to have something wrong.

Hans van der Meer




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