Hi Hans,
On Tue, 2025-12-30 at 14:22 +0100, Hans Hagen via ntg-context wrote:
> On 12/30/2025 1:16 PM, Max Chernoff via ntg-context wrote:
>
> > If you install "scheme-context" instead of the default "scheme-full",
> > you should get more or less exactly the same result as you'd get by
> > installing the Standalone Distribution---installing via TeX Live will
> > also give you Plain LuaTeX, but not pdfTeX or LaTeX, so the install size
>
> fwiw, i'm not sure what you mean with plain luatex but context has it's
> own plain luatex which is what is used when we test it (always has been so)
If I try and run the LuaTeX provided by ConTeXt, I just get an error
message (and have for as long as I remember):
$ luatex
warning: /opt/context/tex/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf:49: (kpathsea) No cnf value
on line: OSFONTDIR =.
This is LuaTeX, Version 1.24.0 (TeX Live 2026/dev)
system commands enabled.
**\relax
kpathsea: Running mktexfmt luatex.fmt
mktexfmt: No such file or directory
I can't find the format file `luatex.fmt'!
(And I was wrong earlier---"scheme-context" also includes MkII, so you
do get pdfTeX as well, but still not LaTeX or any of the other large
formats/packages.)
> > should be at most 10% larger. There are a couple other minor
> > differences, but nothing that is likely to cause any problems:
>
> As long as one keeps in mind that it's not the official distribution
> because some files are removed. So if something fails due to that one
> should explicitly mention that texlive is used.
Right, and in normal cases, it's good to install the Standalone
Distribution, but for NetBSD specifically, TL probably makes more sense,
since it provides LMTX binaries while Standalone doesn't. (This is also
the only platform where TL has better binary support than Standalone.)
> > The fonts are available in the separate (and rather poorly-named)
> > "texmf.zip" file
> >
> > http://lmtx.pragma-ade.com/install-lmtx/texmf.zip
>
> What is poorly named about it? It contains some public stuff. If that
> should go to e.g. texmf-fonts we could as well remove texmf alltogether
> and forget about it, so also notthing generic.
Well "texmf-context.zip" contains the base ConTeXt files, and
"texmf-linux-64.zip" contains Linux binaries, so I'd expect the fonts to
come from "texmf-fonts.zip".
Thanks,
-- Max
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