From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: luatools --ini plain
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 11:39:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4803264B.7080909@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C736D2EE-3A01-48F6-A289-0E93BD2AC2F6@science.uva.nl>
Hans van der Meer wrote:
> On 14 apr 2008, at 00:38, Arthur Reutenauer wrote:
>
>>> luatools --ini plain
>>>
>>> Instead of the expected output 120,808 plain.fmt etc. I get an error:
>>> "There is no lua initialization file found. ..."
>> The ConTeXt tools don't support plain. If you really want a plain
>> format for LuaTeX you can run luatex -ini instead:
>>
>> luatex -ini -jobname=luatex plain \\dump
>>
>> But why do you want plain LuaTeX in the first place? If it's only to
>> test the mk document, you should realize it's not a user manual.
>
> Why I am doing this? Just because I want to experiment with luatex and
> to acquire experience using it. And what better to start with then
> examples given in the accompanying document.
> It might not be a user manual, but does that mean its information is
> not to be used? I am quite aware of the preliminary nature of the
> document. That is what this newsgroup is for. By the way, Hans Hagen
> in the mean time corrected the call to "luatools --make plain".
in most cases examples in mk should work and if not, they should be
corrected (it's a kind of dev history and i try to keep things up to
date so send patches if needed)
Hans
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-13 21:59 Hans van der Meer
2008-04-13 22:30 ` [Dev-luatex] " Hans Hagen
2008-04-13 22:38 ` Arthur Reutenauer
2008-04-14 8:59 ` Hans van der Meer
2008-04-14 9:39 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
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