Re: Unable to generate luatex formats

["Mojca Miklavec" <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 12:37 PM, John Devereux wrote:
> Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> writes:
>
>  > John Devereux wrote:
>  >> Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com> writes:
>  >>
>  >>> John Devereux wrote:
>  >>>> Michael Green <merely.ridiculous@gmail.com> writes:
>  >>>>
>  >>>>> I'm getting the following error when running this command: luatools --
>  >>>>> ini --verbose --compile cont-en
>  >>>> Hi, I am getting a similar error on debian unstable.
>  >>> Both of you, can you check that
>  >>>
>  >>>    luatools luat-env.lua
>  >>
>  >> I just get a blank line printed. And I get the same if I feed it the name
>  >> of a random, non-existent file. Which is not encouraging...
>  >>
>  >>> finds the file? If not, try running luatools --generate
>  >>
>  >> This produces:
>  >>
>  >>   LuaTools | skipping /texmf-local/web2c/texmf.cnf
>  >>   LuaTools | skipping /texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf
>  >>   LuaTools |
>  >>   LuaTools | runtime: 0.003 seconds
>  >
>  > aha, so how about setting the env variables TEXMFCNF and TEXMF
>  >
>  > Hans
>
>  aha indeed!
>
>  Setting TEXMF was missing from the instructions in debian... Or perhaps I
>  messed up my configuration in the past.
>
>   luatools --ini --compile cont-en
>
>  works now.
>
>  I will start playing with it.
>
>  A quick try of the example snippet did not work (see dump at end of
>  message) but I will look into it more and try Mojcas advice re
>  ctxtools --update.

ctxtools --update won't help you as you have some missing fonts (msam7.tfm).
http://packages.debian.org/etch/all/texlive-base/filelist claims that
the file should be present in texlive-base in Debian, so it's a bit
confusing.

Mojca


>  ============================================================
>
>  ~$cat temp.tex
>
>  \starttext
>         \ctxlua{a = 1.5 ; b = 1.8 ; c = a*b ; tex.print(c) ;}
>  \stoptext
>
>  ~$ texexec --lua temp.tex
>
>
>  TeXExec | processing document 'temp.tex'
>  TeXExec | no ctx file found
>  TeXExec | tex processing method: context
>  TeXExec | TeX run 1
>  TeXExec | writing option file temp.top
>  TeXExec | using randomseed 1151
>  TeXExec | tex engine: luatex
>  TeXExec | tex format: cont-en
>
>  (./temp.tex
>
>  ConTeXt  ver: 2008.01.28 21:28 MKIV  fmt: 2008.4.15  int: english/english
>
>  language        : language en is active
>  report >> utilityfile: not present
>  system          : cont-new loaded
>  (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/cont-new.tex
>  systems         : beware: some patches loaded from cont-new.tex
>  (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/cont-new.mkiv
>  lua            : used config path - /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf
>  lua            : used cache path - //home/jd/luatex-cache/context/6300afb4995fe38c77e9b86ed1ef1028
>  ) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/cont-mtx.tex))
>  system         : cont-old loaded
>  (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/cont-old.tex
>  loading        : Context Old Macros
>  )
>  system         : cont-fil loaded
>  (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/cont-fil.tex
>  loading        : Context File Synonyms
>  )
>  bodyfont       : 12pt rm is loaded
>  error >> define font: font with name msam7 is not found
>  error >> define font: name: msam7, loading aborted
>  ! Font \*7ptmmmarm*:=msam7 at 7pt not loadable: metric data not found or bad.
>  <to be read again>
>                    \relax
>  \xxdododefinefont ...tspec {#4}\newfontidentifier
>                                                   \let \localrelativefontsiz...
>  \dodosetmathfamilyA ...amily \fontsize \endcsname
>                                                   \else \ifcsname \fontbody ...
>  \dosetmathfamily ...athfamily \scriptscriptfont #1
>                                                   \let \fontbody #3\dodosetm...
>  <inserted text> ...\scriptscriptface \c!ma \empty
>                                                   \dosetmathfamily \mbfam \t...
>  \synchronizemath ...athfonts \the \mathstrategies
>                                                   \fi
>  ...
>  l.1
>     \starttext
>  ?
>
>
>
>  --
>
>  John Devereux
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