Re: texworks crashes with a context mkiv example

Bruno Voisin <[email protected]> Sun, 15 Mar 2026 19:32:17 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tex.live
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> Luigi Scarso wrote:
> 
> texworks AppImage
> Version 0.6.11 ("github") [r.7951fd8, 10/02/26 06:40]
> from
> https://www.tug.org/texworks/
> crashes with the following example:
> 
> %%
> \setuppapersize[A5][A4,landscape]
> \setuparranging[2UP]
> 
> \starttext
> 
> \dorecurse{4}{
> \input knuth
> \page
> 
> }
> 
> \stoptext
> %%


For what's worth, running your example in TeXShop on the Mac (with engine ConTeXt.engine, namely "context --autogenerate --luatex --synctex=1 "$1""):

- In TeX Live 2025, no problem, output is produced.

- In TeX Live 2026, I get in the console

mtxrun          | unknown script 'mtx-context.lua' or 'mtx-mtx-context.lua'

Looking further:

- With TeX Live 2025:

% kpsewhich mtx-context.lua
/usr/local/texlive/2025/texmf-dist/scripts/context/lua/mtx-context.lua

% mtxrun --locate  mtx-context.lua
/usr/local/texlive/2025/texmf-dist/scripts/context/lua/mtx-context.lua

- With TeX Live 2026:

% kpsewhich mtx-context.lua
/usr/local/texlive/2026/texmf-dist/scripts/context/lua/mtx-context.lua

% mtxrun --locate  mtx-context.lua


Namely, blank line of output for the latter: mtxrun doesn't find mtx-context.lua in TL 2026. I tried adding --usekpse or --forcekpse, no luck, mtx-context.lua still isn't found.

Bruno Voisin