On 19 oct. 08, at 21:50, luigi scarso wrote:

> With the finger crossed I will start tomorrow a project in mkiv

Good luck, or as you say in Italy "in bocca al lupo!"…

>
> but I would like to test what Hans, Taco and others are doing, at  
> least to help find bugs for the Right to Left typesetting.
> It's important, so
> I write how I setup my minimals on a linux box
> 1) mkdir -p /opt/luatex/minimals-beta
> 2) cd /opt/luatex/minimals-beta
> 2a) Now put here first-setup.sh (see contextgarden.net/minimals)
> 3)  ./first-setup.sh
> 3a)If there are some errors due a luatex version; hit return until  
> the end
> 4) cd tex
> 5) . setuptex
> 5a)Now, if you have compiled luatex from svn, put it into texmf- 
> linux/bin
> 6) context --generate
> 7) context --make
> 7a)not errors  anymore, I hope.
> 8)Every time I start a mkiv session
> I do
> cd /opt/luatex/minimals-beta/tex
> . setuptext
> as first step
> to ensure correct initilizatione of env variables.
> 9a)context --generate
> 9b)context --make
> to unsure a clean session.
> 10) always use context to make pdf; ie test your file with
> context basic-test.tex
>

YES! I did it step by step as you say above (mutatis mutandis, that is  
by replacing texmf-linux by texmf-osx-intel): and now I have an mkiv  
in the minimal tree that works fine: the file basic-test.tex results in:
	This file has been typeset on October 19, 2008 at 23:56, mkiv,  
ConTeXt version
	2008.10.17 10:41, LuaTeX revision 1, (LuaTeX date stamp 2008101818)
Many many thanks! Grazie mille…

A last question: it is really necessary to say (in the appropriate  
directory)
	. setuptex
	context --generate
	context --make
for each typesetting session? Or is this a temporary procedure?


> If you open first-setup.sh and change this line
> mtxrun --verbose --script ./bin/mtx-update.lua --update --make -- 
> force --engine=all --context=beta --tree=$PWD/tex $@
> in
> mtxrun --verbose --script ./bin/mtx-update.lua --update --make -- 
> force --engine=all  --tree=$PWD/tex $@
> and then
> 1) mkdir -p /opt/luatex/minimals
> 2)...
> you can then end with a minimal installation

I will try these later. In this way one may have various versions at  
the same time.

Best regards: OK