[OS X TeX] How do I use a personally compiled luatex with MacTeX,

[George Nurser]

On 29 May 2012 10:56, Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa at web.de> wrote:
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> Am 29.05.2012 um 11:21 schrieb George Nurser:
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>>> On the command line you should not need to use "/usr/local/texlive/2011/bin/x86_64-darwin/luatex". A simple "luatex" should be sufficient.
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>> Only after copying the luatex across into /usr/bin/texlive
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> Of course...
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>>> When you try to compile LaTeX files, you should use lualatex instead...
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>> Ah! I'd assumed that since lualatex was just a symlink to luatex it
>> made no difference. But indeed it does. Now I get an obscure luatex
>> error -- I guess it's best to ask on the luatex list for this:
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> The error you report might have to do with other updates you need to install to substitute your old Lua scripts like otfl-font-cid.lua, luaotfload.lua, modutils.lua...

Yes, that's what I suspected. But these scripts do not seem to be in
luatex svn...


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> It might be better to try the MacTeX 2012 pre-test distribution...

OK -- I can give this a go.

Thanks
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