On Sun, 15 Mar 2026 at 13:36, Henning Hraban Ramm <[email protected]> wrote:

> Am 15.03.26 um 12:55 schrieb Max Chernoff via ntg-context:
> > Hi Hans,
> >
> > On Sun, 2026-03-15 at 12:40 +0100, Hans Hagen via ntg-context wrote:
> >> (btw, last week at hrabans context workshop we found out that installing
> >> context from texlive is broken and unuseable;
> >
> > Hmm, sorry, that's unfortunate. The ConTeXt in TL works for me and I
> > haven't heard any recent complaints, so I'm not entirely sure what's
> > wrong. If you or Hraban (or anybody else) is able to reproduce the
> > issue, please either report it on GitHub
> >
> >      https://github.com/gucci-on-fleek/context-packaging
> >
> > or email me and I'll try and fix it.
>
> Hi Max, I wanted to report but found no time so far.
>
> On one participant’s Mac (clean TL26 installation, no previous TeX) we
> could generate the file database and make the format, but afterwards,
> “context” didn’t find the existing format. It worked if we called
> context with the full path.
> (I think it was Harald who tracked it so far.)
>
>
hm  here it seems all ok (Ubuntu)
Do you have an example ?



> AFAIR others had the same problem. I was a bit overwhelmed because I
> tried to overcome the deficiencies of the aging beamer (blurry, too
> dark, psychedelic colors) with really big font sizes in all used
> programs. Additionally, TeXworks crashed all the time (Debian/GNOME;
> reproducible crashes with ConTeXt’s arranging=imposition features).
>
>
ok, but

$> tlmgr info texworks
package:     texworks
category:    TLCore
shortdesc:   friendly cross-platform front end
longdesc:    See https://tug.org/texworks for information and downloads.
TeX Live includes executables and support files only for Windows.
installed:   No
tlmgr: cannot find depending package texworks.x86_64-linux
tlmgr: action info returned an error; continuing.
tlmgr: An error has occurred. See above messages. Exiting.

There is an AppImage at
https://www.tug.org/texworks/

and it works with
\startdocument Hello \stopdocument

--
luigi
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