From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/8798 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Christopher Cardinale Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: VTeX and ConTeXt Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 04:55:06 -0700 (PDT) Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <20020724115506.61286.qmail@web10003.mail.yahoo.com> References: <5.1.0.14.1.20020724083028.02cbdcc8@server-1> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035399177 30575 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 18:52:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:52:57 +0000 (UTC) Original-To: ntg-context@let.uu.nl In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.1.20020724083028.02cbdcc8@server-1> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:8798 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:8798 Here's a message I received from Mike Vulis a while ago: At 05:26 PM 7/11/02 -0400, you wrote: >Is there any way to use the ConTeXt macro package in VTeX? At the moment, no. There are no VTeX drivers in Context (these are "implementation-specific" parts, like those which deal with hyperreferences or picture insertions). Possibly, eventually someone would write them. >Does VTeX only >support plain-TeX and LaTeX? And AmsTeX, and LaTeX 2.09. At this time supporting Context does not seem to be worthwhile; it has a very small user base (<1% of LaTeX) and it is far from clear that it would "take off". Adding Context to the supported set would help very few users and impose too much extra burden on us (having to worry that the new features -- and, for example, the forthcoming 8.0 will have a number of them -- are supported in a reasonable way). Furthermore, Context is not a stable package -- it changes all the time and gets broken all too often; this makes it even more difficult to support. > >Thanks, >Chris Cardinale > > > --------------------------------------------- Michael Vulis MicroPress mailto://support@micropress-inc.com http://www.micropress-inc.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - Feel better, live better http://health.yahoo.com