On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 11:17 PM, Alan BRASLAU <alan.braslau@cea.fr> wrote:

> Tikz seems to be broken under luatex.
> As is, compiling something as simple as
>        \usemodule[tikz]
>        \starttext
>        Hello, world!
>        \stoptext
> gives errors.
>



>
> >From the the [Pgf-users] mailing list:
>
> From: Till Tantau <tantau@tc...> - 2008-10-24 10:25
> >    Hi!
> >
> >  arggh....
> >
> >  Discerning the driver is really a problem in ConTeXt, at least for a
> >  non-context-guru like myself.
> >
> >  As a quick fix, you will have to define the driver yourself by saying
> >
> >  \def\pgfsysdriver{pgfgsys-pdftex.def}
> >
> >  or whatever seems appropriate before tikz/pgf are loaded. That should
> >  shut up the (not-working) automatic driver detection.
> >
> >
> >  Does some context-guru on the list happen to know what is the right,
> >  official way to find out which backend is used?
> >
> >
> >  Best regardsm
> >  Till
>
> This won't work with luatex (but it does compile without error messages)
> and I cannot (easily) figure out what the correct driver should be...
>




I have downloaded pgf from
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/pgf.html

and unzip base.zip
under
minimals-beta/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/pgf
then
$> context test-alan
It seems to work

minimals-beta
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%% test-alan.tex %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\usemodule[tikz]
\setupcolors[state=start]
\starttext
Hello, world!
\blank
\begingroup
\tikz \draw[thick,rounded corners=8pt]
  (0,0) -- (0,2) -- (1,3.25) -- (2,2) -- (2,0) -- (0,2) -- (2,2) -- (0,0) --
(2,0);
\endgroup

\starttikzpicture
  \draw[fill=yellow] (0,0) -- (60:.75cm) arc (60:180:.75cm);
  \draw(120:0.4cm) node {$\alpha$};
  \draw[fill=green!30] (0,0) -- (right:.75cm) arc (0:60:.75cm);
  \draw(30:0.5cm) node {$\beta$};
  \startscope[shift={(60:2cm)}]
    \draw[fill=green!30] (0,0) -- (180:.75cm) arc (180:240:.75cm);
    \draw (30:-0.5cm) node {$\gamma$};
    \draw[fill=yellow] (0,0) -- (240:.75cm) arc (240:360:.75cm);
    \draw (-60:0.4cm) node {$\delta$};
  \stopscope
  \startscope[thick]
    \draw (60:-1cm) node[fill=white] {$E$} -- (60:3cm) node[fill=white]
{$F$};
    \draw[red]                   (-2,0) node[left] {$A$} -- (3,0)
node[right]{$B$};
    \draw[blue,shift={(60:2cm)}] (-3,0) node[left] {$C$} -- (2,0)
node[right]{$D$};
    \draw[shift={(60:1cm)},xshift=4cm]
    node [right,text width=6cm,rounded corners,fill=red!20,inner sep=1ex]
    {
      When we assume that $\color[red]{AB}$ and $\color[blue]{CD}$ are
      parallel, i.\,e., ${\color[red]{AB}} {|} \color[blue]{CD}$,
      then $\alpha = \delta$ and $\beta = \gamma$.
    };
  \stopscope
\stoptikzpicture
\stoptext



-- 
luigi