>> For testing purposes I generated a 'luatex-plain' format with >> >> ``` >> mtxrun --generate >> mtxrun --script plain --make >> ``` >> >> However, using it as >> >> ``` >> PDFTEX="luatex --fmt=luatex-plain" texi2pdf foo.texi >> ``` >> >> fails with >> >> ``` >> texi2dvi: TeX neither supports -recorder nor outputs \openout lines in its >> log file >> ``` >> > > I know very little about LuaTeX so don't know how to generate a > luatex-plain format the way you state, so I have difficulty > replicating this problem.
Assuming you have a complete TeXLive installation, you really have just to call `mtxrun` twice as described above to get the 'luatex-plain' format. Does it fail for you? > Could you send the output from > > PDFTEX="luatex --fmt=luatex-plain" texi2pdf --verbose foo.texi > > so that I might have a better idea what is going on? It's not really helpful, alas: ``` > PDFTEX="luatex --fmt=luatex-plain" texi2pdf --verbose a.texinfo texi2dvi: Processing a.texinfo ... texi2dvi: Checking TeX \openout in log support... texi2dvi: /usr/local/bin/texi2dvi: running luatex --fmt=luatex-plain --file-line-error </dev/null '\input' ./openout.tex ... texi2dvi: Checking TeX \openout in log support... no texi2dvi: Checking TeX recorder support... texi2dvi: /usr/local/bin/texi2dvi: running luatex --fmt=luatex-plain --file-line-error -recorder </dev/null '\input' ./openout.tex ... texi2dvi: Checking TeX recorder support... no texi2dvi: TeX neither supports -recorder nor outputs \openout lines in its log file texi2dvi: Removing a.t2d ``` Werner