Re: [NTG-context] Error setting up ConTeXt in MacTeX 2020

2020-09-18 Thread Hans Hagen
On 9/18/2020 2:49 PM, Arthur Reutenauer wrote: On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 01:48:16PM +0200, Felix Krause wrote: In your case validformatpath is a subdirectory of $TMPDIR, under /var/folders/. However, if your Mac is anything like mine, /var is actually a symbolic link to /private/var, so that

Re: [NTG-context] Error setting up ConTeXt in MacTeX 2020

2020-09-18 Thread Arthur Reutenauer
On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 01:48:16PM +0200, Felix Krause wrote: >> In your case validformatpath is a subdirectory of $TMPDIR, under >> /var/folders/. However, if your Mac is anything like mine, /var is >> actually a symbolic link to /private/var, so that dir.current() reports >> a path starting

Re: [NTG-context] Error setting up ConTeXt in MacTeX 2020

2020-09-18 Thread Felix Krause
On 18 Sep 2020, at 12:50, Arthur Rosendahl wrote: > I think I may have found the origin of the error: > > In your case validformatpath is a subdirectory of $TMPDIR, under > /var/folders/. However, if your Mac is anything like mine, /var is > actually a symbolic link to /private/var, so that

Re: [NTG-context] Error setting up ConTeXt in MacTeX 2020

2020-09-18 Thread Felix Krause
On 18 Sep 2020, at 12:36, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: > > > What does > > mtxrun --expand-var TEXMFCACHE > > return? selfautoparent:texmf-var;/Users/flyx/Library/texlive/2020/texmf-var Regards, Felix___ If your

Re: [NTG-context] Error setting up ConTeXt in MacTeX 2020

2020-09-18 Thread Arthur Rosendahl
I think I may have found the origin of the error: On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 09:41:23AM +0200, Felix Krause wrote: > resolvers | formats | changing to format path > '/var/folders/rj/hfjmjx796q102y4v23vh038cgp/T/luatex-cache/context/a86c089b384a3076dc514ba966a1fac9/formats/luatex' >

Re: [NTG-context] Error setting up ConTeXt in MacTeX 2020

2020-09-18 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 18. Sep 2020, at 12:00, Felix Krause wrote: > > The directory name luatex-cache suggests it's used for caching. That doesn’t help a lot. > I interpret the output like „something happens during the generation of the > format file and therefore the file never gets generated“. I don't know

Re: [NTG-context] Error setting up ConTeXt in MacTeX 2020

2020-09-18 Thread Felix Krause
On 18 Sep 2020, at 11:45, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: Try to delete the luatex cache (i.e. all of /var/folders/rj/hfjmjx796q102y4v23vh038cgp/T/luatex-cache) and try again. Did that, it regenerates the contents of the directory and the error keeps coming up. Regards, Felix

Re: [NTG-context] Error setting up ConTeXt in MacTeX 2020

2020-09-18 Thread Felix Krause
On 18 Sep 2020, at 11:43, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: Then tell us a bit more about your system. What is the output of which -a context /Library/TeX/texbin/context which is an alias of /Library/TeX/texbin/context@ -> ../../texmf-dist/scripts/context/stubs/unix/context and texbin

Re: [NTG-context] Error setting up ConTeXt in MacTeX 2020

2020-09-18 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
> Am 18.09.2020 um 09:41 schrieb Felix Krause : > > Hi all, > > with MacTeX 2020 on a newly installed Mac, I have the problem that ConTeXt > doesn't work anymore: > > $ context file.tex > mtx-context | warning: no format found, forcing remake (commandline > driven) > […] snip lots of

Re: [NTG-context] Error setting up ConTeXt in MacTeX 2020

2020-09-18 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
> On 18. Sep 2020, at 11:35, Felix Krause wrote: > > Hm. I don't have this directory (not using MacPorts) and my error seems to be > quite different (the scripts to be executed seem to be found). > I dug through the thread but for all I can see, nothing there describes my > problem or a

Re: [NTG-context] Error setting up ConTeXt in MacTeX 2020

2020-09-18 Thread Felix Krause
On 18 Sep 2020, at 11:20, Otared Kavian wrote: Hi Felix, Some time ago I encountered the same problem and we had a thread on this list about this: https://www.mail-archive.com/ntg-context@ntg.nl/msg95355.html The problem on my Mac came from the fact that a directory

Re: [NTG-context] Error setting up ConTeXt in MacTeX 2020

2020-09-18 Thread Otared Kavian
Hi Felix, Some time ago I encountered the same problem and we had a thread on this list about this: https://www.mail-archive.com/ntg-context@ntg.nl/msg95355.html The problem on my Mac came from the fact that a directory /opt/local/etc/texmf/ existed (installed by MacPorts,

[NTG-context] Error setting up ConTeXt in MacTeX 2020

2020-09-18 Thread Felix Krause
Hi all, with MacTeX 2020 on a newly installed Mac, I have the problem that ConTeXt doesn't work anymore: $ context file.tex mtx-context | warning: no format found, forcing remake (commandline driven) […] snip lots of lines resolvers | formats | changing to format