Re: LuaTeX-plain File Database Problem

[Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>]

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On Thu, 15 May 2014, Aíre Funvake wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Never felt so incompetent in my life -- just cannot get LuaTeX to
> find fonts or `*.tex` files for use with `\input <filename>`, or
> `font\xxx = <font-or-filename>`. Even though, these commands were
> executed (all I could find):
>
>   mktexlsr
>   mtxrun --script base --generate
>   luatools --generate
>   context --generate
>   mtxrun --script fonts --update --force
>   mtxrun --script fonts --udpate --simple
>
> Tried putting files in (in the roots and subdirectories):
>
>   ~/texmf
>   ~/ctx/tex/texmf-project
>   ~/ctx/tex/texmf-local
>   ~/ctx/tex/texmf-fonts
>
> Checked if the file could be found:
>
>   luatools --find-file xxxx.tex   <--- finds it
>   luatools --find-file xxx.otf    <--- finds it
>   mtxrun --locate xxxx.tex        <--- finds it
>   mtxrun --locate xxx.otf         <--- finds it
>   kpsewhich/where                 <--- finds only if in `~/texmf`
>
> In .tex file (even when files are in `~/texmf` dir):
>
>   \input xxxx  or xxxx.tex        <--- no luck
>   \font\myfont = name:xxxx        <--- no luck
>   \font\myfont = file:xxxx.otf    <--- no luck
>
> Sorry, but reading and searching for hours did not bring any solu-
> tion. Not sure if there is a configuration file like `texmf.cnf` or
> the `context.cnf` that must be modified, or and environment var-
> iable like `TEXMFHOME` (default seems to be `~/texmf`, and that's
> OK, if only it would only work).
>
> Sorry to spam this list with questions which may seem very
> fundamental to you. Hope to be able to reciprocate sometime.
> What am I missing?

Read about TDS (TeX Directory Structure).

You need to put files in $TEXMF/tex/plain/ subdirectory for Plain format 
to find it, or in $TEXMF/tex/generic/ subdirectory for all macro packages 
(plain, latex, context) to find it.

Aditya

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