Re: ConTeXt on NixOS

On Sat, Jul 18, 2026 at 23:19 (+0200), Hans Hagen wrote:

> On 7/18/2026 11:05 PM, Jim Diamond wrote:

>> warning: (kpathsea) /usr/local/context-mymods/tex/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf:49: (kpathsea) No cnf value on line: OSFONTDIR =.
>> This is LuaTeX, Version 1.25.9 (TeX Live 2027/dev)  (INITEX)
>> system commands enabled.
>> ! I can't find file `luatex-plain.tex'.
>> <*> luatex-plain.tex
>> dump
>> (Press Enter to retry, or Control-D to exit)
>> Please type another input file name:
>> ! Emergency stop.
>> <*>

> ah, so no kpse ... maybe i should ship the emulator

Only if you want to tell people that they can use mtxrun to compile plain
TeX docs.  ;-)

> (after all mtxrun can act as such) ... you can remind me every now and
> then

OK.

>> and at some point I begin to wonder how deep the rabbit hole is.
> not so deep, maybe you have mktexlsr somewhere on the system

Well, I do, in my TeXlive distribution.  But I figured the point of your
much earlier message was for me to be able to run plain on the stand-alone
ConTeXt distribution.

Cheers.
                                Jim

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