Re: trouble starting context

[Jesse Alama <alama@stanford.edu>]

Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com> writes:

> Jesse Alama wrote:
>> I just downloaded the TeXLive 2008 developer snapshot and wanted to try
>> out LuaTeX.  Unfortunately, I can't even get started:
>> 
>>   $ context dissertation.tex
>> 
>>   MtxRun | unknown script: context
>> 
>> I ran luatools --generate before doing this.  What's odd is that
>> mtx-context can be found:
>> 
>>   $ luatools mtx-context.lua
>
> We've had this before. IIRC, the problem is that mtxrun looks for
> the script using a different 'file type' from luatools. It probably
> means you will have to adjust a value in texmf.cnf.
>
> I have:
>
> LUAINPUTS=.;$TEXMF/tex/{context,plain/base,generic}//:$TEXMF/scripts/context/lua
> TEXMFSCRIPTS=.;$TEXMF/tex/{context,plain/base,generic,}//;$TEXMF/scripts/context//
>
> and I strongly suspect both are needed. After adjusting the value(s),
> you will have to rerun luatools --generate.

I modified texmf.cnf to give these variables those values, but I still
get the same error, even after luatools --generate.  Further
suggestions?

By the way, I initially modified the "local" texmf.cnf file

  texlive/2008/texmf.cnf

rather than the "gloal" configuration file

  texlive/2008/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf

because the former file says that it should contain changes to the
latter:

  <---snip--->
  % If you want to configure something to a value different then the one 
  % in texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf, just put the changed value here.
  <---snip--->

But I noticed that when I ran luatools --generate, it apparently ignored
this "local" texmf.cnf file; it read only the "global" texmf.cnf file.
I inferred that from the output:

  LuaTools | error unable to locate texmfcnf.lua
  LuaTools | loading /usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf
  LuaTools | preparing configuration for /Users/alama/luatex-cache/context/79597d0cc507e8e510dd517f8850b2ca/trees/ae181585be5454a57ae25fb95c3ccbef.tma
  LuaTools | saving configuration in /Users/alama/luatex-cache/context/79597d0cc507e8e510dd517f8850b2ca/trees/ae181585be5454a57ae25fb95c3ccbef.tma
  LuaTools | compiling configuration to /Users/alama/luatex-cache/context/79597d0cc507e8e510dd517f8850b2ca/trees/ae181585be5454a57ae25fb95c3ccbef.tmc
  ...etc.

Thus I modified the "global" configuration file instead.  By the way,
the variables LUAINPUTS and TEXMFSCRIPTS already had values:

  LUAINPUTS = .;$TEXMF/scripts/{$progname,$engine,}/lua//;$TEXINPUTS
  TEXMFSCRIPTS = $TEXMF/scripts/{$engine,$progname,}//

But I overwrote those to give them the values you recommended, to no
avail, unfortunately.

Jesse

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