The LuaTeX manual vs. LMTX

Johannes Hielscher jhielscher at posteo.de
Wed Feb 14 01:59:35 CET 2024


@Wolfgang: Many thanks! I indeed can build the LuaTeX manual fine, with
either explicit flag at invocation time, or by adding the engine
selection preamble comment (like added to the downstream copy of this
document in mid-2020 [1]).


@Norbert, Karl, pretesters: Success report for:
* TL pretest installation on x86_64-linux
* `tlmgr platform add aarch64-linux` (it complains about missing biber,
  but that's another story)
* compilation of various documents (among them the LuaTeX manual),
  using the AArch64 binaries from GitHub Actions on real hardware.


[1]
https://github.com/contextgarden/context/commit/fa4c846e48f939cd86c36b7cde298eb91d6720aa#diff-2cb391252b02a5c5917657aa71642fc29a7bc95f5b76f27988c9e3f893542ebe
These patches haven't found their way into upstream?


Am Tue, 13 Feb 2024 21:02:20 +0100
schrieb Wolfgang Schuster <wolfgang.schuster.lists at gmail.com>:

> Johannes Hielscher schrieb am 12.02.2024 um 14:14:
> > Dear all,
> > 
> > 
> > no luck compiling the LuaTeX manual (distributed with TeXLive [1])
> > with the ConTeXt binaries (LMTX-based) provided by TeXLive 2023
> > (release) nor tlpretest/SVN [2].  
> 
> 
> You need Context with Luatex as binary to process the document but 
> Context uses since a while Luametatex as default binary.
> 
> 
> To switch from Luametatex to Luatex add the --luatex to the context 
> command, i.e.
> 
> 	context --luatex luatex.tex
> 
> 
> The version of the Luatex manual which is included in the Context 
> distribution has processing information at the top of the main file 
> (luatex.tex) which makes the flag obsolete.
> 
> % language=us engine=luatex runpath=texruns:manuals/luatex
> 
> 
> Wolfgang



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