Arthur Reutenauer wrote:

                                                        However, I can not
   get it to generate the format file:

   luatools --generate luatools --ini --compile --verbose cont-en
   This is luaTeX, Version 3.141592-beta-0.10.2-2007090506 (Web2C 7.5.6)
   I can't find the format file `luatex.fmt'!

   What am I missing here?


  Obviously this command line (which looks quite strange to me) does
not compile the format; it tries to run ConTeXt Mark IV directly. It
seems that you have concatenated two legitimate command lines ;-) Try:

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

Well, I got that line straight from Taco's example on the garden for setting up MarkIV; but even the lines as you sent them have problems:

luatools --generate
This is luaTeX, Version 3.141592-beta-0.10.2-2007090506 (Web2C 7.5.6)
**
(it just hangs here, I have to <Control>-D to close it)

luatools --ini --compile --verbose cont-en
This is luaTeX, Version 3.141592-beta-0.10.2-2007090506 (Web2C 7.5.6) (INITEX)
(/usr/local/texlive/2007/../texmf-local/tex/context/base/cont-en.tex
(/usr/local/texlive/2007/../texmf-local/tex/context/base/context.tex
(/usr/local/texlive/2007/../texmf-local/tex/context/base/syst-pln.tex)
(/usr/local/texlive/2007/../texmf-local/tex/context/base/syst-prm.tex)
(/usr/local/texlive/2007/../texmf-local/tex/context/base/luat-env.tex
! LuaTeX error [string "luas[0]"]:1: attempt to index global 'input' (a nil val
ue).
<argument> ...mf.instance,"luat-env.lua","tex")) }

\startruntimeluacode ...everyloadluacode #1}\fi #1

l.88 \stopruntimectxluacode

? ^D
! Emergency stop.
<argument> ...mf.instance,"luat-env.lua","tex")) }

\startruntimeluacode ...everyloadluacode #1}\fi #1

l.88 \stopruntimectxluacode


in use: 109 node words from 500
still untouched: 383 node words
size 2 avail list:     4
size 3 avail list:     3
No pages of output.
Transcript written on cont-en.log.

So there is still something missing, I will look at the setuptex files.

Mark Almeida