Re: Running Mark IV / luatex: unknown script: context

From: "Mojca Miklavec" <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com>
To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Running Mark IV / luatex: unknown script: context
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 02:14:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6faad9f00810131714p563e97aemaedd070310f72005@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48F3088B.8070909@elvenkind.com>

On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 10:36 AM, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
>
>
> Mildred Ki'Lya wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Hello everybody, I'm new here. I just subscribed because I'm trying to
>> use LuaTeX / ConTeX Mark IV and i have some problems with it. I'm
>> running TeXlive 2008 installed from ArchLinux and I can't run 'context'
>> from the command line.
>>
>> I'm following the instructions on the page
>> http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Running_Mark_IV
>
> Recent edits seem to have broken that wiki page,

Whoops ... I have no idea why I deleted the bunch of code, but I guess
that it wasn't intentional. My comment was "section added". Judging
from that, I probably did not notice my destructive action, and nobody
has complaned.

> it is now more
> about updating than about running,

The problem is that MacTeX users *have to* update in order to be able
to run it, but a separate page would be ok. There's a total mess with
installation instructions at the moment anyway :(

> and the instructions in it
> are no longer valid *unless* you do the update as well. Mojca,
> wouldn't it be better to move the "Updating ConTeXt" to one of
> the installation pages (or a standalone page) ?
>
>> It says to first run 'context --make cont-en', and when I do that, I
>> get:
>
> It should have said to run luatools --generate first, as it still
> does in the Quickstart section. The TEXMFCNF setting should not
> be needed (but when present, it should indeed point to a directory,
> not a file).

Please, do not ask me for permission to change things ... Just do it.
I'll try to review the pages and add some order, though I'm not the
best one to explain things, but I'll try.

Mojca
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