From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/80928 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "d.henman" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Question about current ConTeXt with XeTeX Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 23:34:33 +1000 Message-ID: <20130222233433.3676@binki> References: <20130222212519.2552@binki> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1361606381 9475 80.91.229.3 (23 Feb 2013 07:59:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2013 07:59:41 +0000 (UTC) To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sat Feb 23 09:00:03 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from [195.12.62.10] (helo=balder.ntg.nl) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1U9A1X-0002fo-8b for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sat, 23 Feb 2013 08:59:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DCB2101E9; Sat, 23 Feb 2013 08:59:18 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id pZsY53pmkVs8; Sat, 23 Feb 2013 08:59:15 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A63C3101E5; Sat, 23 Feb 2013 08:59:15 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BFCF101E3 for ; Fri, 22 Feb 2013 15:34:34 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id hEGeFG6emUVa for ; Fri, 22 Feb 2013 15:34:33 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from filter2-til.mf.surf.net (filter2-til.mf.surf.net [194.171.167.218]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D146101E0 for ; Fri, 22 Feb 2013 15:34:33 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from mail1.asahi-net.or.jp (mail1.asahi-net.or.jp [202.224.39.197]) by filter2-til.mf.surf.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-9.4) with ESMTP id r1MEYVVx016685 for ; Fri, 22 Feb 2013 15:34:32 +0100 Original-Received: from binki (i254021.dynamic.ppp.asahi-net.or.jp [61.125.254.21]) by mail1.asahi-net.or.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B13519444 for ; Fri, 22 Feb 2013 23:34:29 +0900 (JST) In-reply-to: Your message of Fri, 22 Feb 2013 14:47:15 +0100 X-Mailer: MH-E 8.2; GNU Mailutils 2.1; GNU Emacs 23.1.90 X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=202.224.39.197; country=JP; latitude=36.0000; longitude=138.0000; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=36.0000,138.0000&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 0TJ3qywT9 - 3c11ba27238d - 20130222 X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 194.171.167.218 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 23 Feb 2013 08:59:14 +0100 X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:80928 Archived-At: Thanks for the clear and detailed explanation. It helped clear up the difference, or lak thereof between the -xtxx anf --xetex options for the different scripts/programs. Mojca Miklavec wrote: > On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 12:25 PM, wrote: > > > > I just read in contextgarden.net the following: > > "Note that XeTeX uses mkii and LuaTeX uses mkiv ; in principle mkii is frozen so new features and improvements will only happen in mkiv." > > > > I use the ConTeXt which comes in TEXLIVE 2012, which I assume uses Mark IV. > > ConTeXt in TL 2012 provides both Mark II and IV. There is no plan to > kick MkII out of TeX Live. > > > Does that mean that I can not use this version of ConTeXt with XeteX which also comes packaged in TEXLIVE? > > Of course you can use it. It is indeed true that ConTeXt uses MkII for > XeTeX and that MkII it is frozen, but nothing prevents you from using > XeTeX with ConTeXt. Any of the following commands should work: > texexec --xtx filename[.tex] > texexec --xetex filename[.tex] > context --xetex filename[.tex] > > Mojca ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________