Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 9:03 AM, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
>> Norbert Preining wrote:
>>> Well not surprising ... there is NO context script anywhere in the
>>> distribution!
>>>
>>> Am I missing something?
>> The script is:
>>
>> scripts/context/lua/mtx-context.lua
>>
>> If mtxrun cannot find it, something went wrong running
>>
>> luatools --generate
>
> It seems to me that this is actually a yet unanswered FAQ:
> - the thread about AucTeX on ntg-context
dunno, i never used emacs
> - Oliver asked me about how to run LuaTeX without having to set any
> environmental variables except for PATH adjustment; that would make
> the mac installer much easier to cope with - in most TeX
> distributions, one simply puts texmf.cnf somewhere above the binary
> (selfautoparent trickery), and then everything works out of the box
i've come to hate this autofoo trickery since there is no resl standard
and whatever one cooks up eventually something else happens
> - similar question raised by Vyatcheslav for Windows
it would ne no problem if we could be sure that the binary lives
relative to the tree (same for cnf file) but there is no clear policy
for this (for instance on linux a cnf file can live somewhere under etc
too)
> - I often have problems in my editor; if I launch it from terminal
> with proper environmental variables set, then it works OK, but if I
> want to launch it from menu, then it sometimes works and sometimes not
> (some weird interference with the existing distribution, in most cases
> it just doesn't find the cont-en.fmt and stops there already)
>
> I just wanted to raise the question as it appears in just every
> installation of TeX where one wants to use ConTeXt with LuaTeX.
>
> As long as one runs
> source setuptex
> in minimals, or
> source ~/.luatex
> in Thomas' instructions of hard-coded paths then LuaTeX runs OK, but
> if one would like to run LuaTeX without explicitly setting
> environmental variables (problematic within TeX editors), one soon
> runs into problems.
mtxrun --tree=<pathtotree> should work
given that there is a setuptex.tmf file there
> Minimals contain texmf.cnf hidden somewhere in the tree. But even if I
> put in in the top folder, it doesn't help much. Hans also uses
> setuptex.tmf for reading settings with LuaTeX in some way, but again,
> it doesn't happen automatically.
indeed, since there is no robust way to locate it
> Jonathan Kew also told me that it should be enough to have a proper
> version of texmf.cnf in the top folder, and then setting PATH to
> include binaries should be enough. LuaTeX now works on standalone
> ConTeXt installation for more than a year, but it would be nice to
> make it work on Debian, TeX Live, MikTeX (that will soon provide it)
> .... as well.
>
> Any ideas if getting rid of dependency on environmental variables is doable?
i keep thinking about it but i'm not in the mood to implement a messy
fuzzy logic solution thet eventually will bite us
for instance, can you cook up a list of locations for each platform that
is guaranteed correct? (no problem for the minimals probably)
> PS: ping [EMAIL PROTECTED]
hm
Hans
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE
Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands
tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com
| www.pragma-pod.nl
-----------------------------------------------------------------
_______________________________________________
dev-context mailing list
[email protected]
http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/dev-context
