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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