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by gucci-on-fleek 106 days ago
How did you install ConTeXt? Because "mtxrunjit" shouldn't be included in any modern versions.
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What do you consider "modern"? Is a year old not modern? Am I supposed to be seeing something else?

  $ pacman -Ss context | grep TeX -B1
  extra/haskell-skylighting-format-context 0.1.0.2-163
      ConTeXt formatter for skylighting syntax highlighting library
  --
  extra/texlive-context 2025.2-1 (texlive)
      TeX Live - ConTeXt and packages
  extra/texlive-latexextra 2025.2-1 (texlive)
      TeX Live - LaTeX additional packages
  $ sudo pacman -S --needed texlive-context
  ...
  $ pacman -Qi texlive-context
  Name            : texlive-context
  Version         : 2025.2-1
  ...
  Build Date      : Sat 22 Mar 2025 07:15:15 PM EDT
Ah sorry, my bad. I thought that "mtxrunjit" was removed longer ago, but I only removed it from TeX Live in June 2025. Regardless, you should use the "context" command to compile files with ConTeXt. Example:

  $ cat <<EOF > hello-world.tex
  \starttext
      Hello, world!
  \stoptext
  EOF
  
  $ context hello-world.tex
  [...]
  system          > ConTeXt  ver: 2026.02.19 11:49 LMTX  fmt: 2026.3.7  int: english/english
  [...]
  system          | total runtime: 0.632 seconds of 0.768 seconds
  
  $ pdftotext hello-world.pdf - | tail -1
  Hello, world!