On 5/17/2014 12:01 AM, Aíre Funvake wrote:
On Fri May 16 23:51:08 2014, Hans Hagen wrote:
On 5/16/2014 10:56 PM, Aíre Funvake wrote:
On Thu May 15 23:23:07 2014, Aíre Funvake wrote:
On Thu May 15 23:07:40 2014, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
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

Thank you, will re-read it forthwith, must have missed something.
It just feels wrong to put re-usable project files inside the
distribution tree. Still feel like an idiot, if not more so.

project specific files go into

<texroot>/texmf-project/tex/context/user

additional fonts into

<texroot>/texmf-fonts/fonts/data

these are in the tds tree but never overwritten

Can anyone enlighten me then as to the purpose of `$HOME/texmf`,
`$TEXMF/tex/texmf-local`, `$TEXMF/tex/texmf-fonts`, etc.,
considering they are all, for example, configured in the file:
`$TEXMF/tex/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf`? Which I assumed incorrectly
it seems, the name resolvers would use.

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/177459/learning-plain-tex-via-contexts-luatex-plain-format


context mkiv doesn't use texmf.cnf at all but texmfcnf.lua instead
(and also has its own file management subsystem)

already right from the start context had process management with
'texmfstart + texexec' (mkii) and 'mtxrun + context' (mkiv)

Hans

Thank you very much. Does this apply to LuaTeX-plain as well
(`luatex.exe --fmt luatex-plain`)? LuaTeX works fine if I set
  `$TEXMFHOME` (MacOSX) or `%TEXMFHOME%` (Windows) environment
variables, or put files in default location `$HOME/texmf` (Mac).
But otherwise, I seem to have problems. Will try the to use
the `texmf-project/..` and `texmf-fonts/..` directories though.

no, the plain variant uses kpse and texmf.cnf

(I never use texmfhome or hometexmf or whatever it has evolved through over the years, and, as texmf, texmf-local, texmf-dist have changed order and usage over time as well, I also never put stuff in there.)

Hans

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