From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/60105 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Henning Hraban Ramm Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Best version of ConTeXt Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2010 23:10:38 +0200 Message-ID: <22C7C954-0B4D-4A08-BBAC-F6B723DD6F87@fiee.net> References: <018d01cb1e31$100d29c0$30277d40$@com> <021401cb1e94$63236c10$296a4430$@com> <023401cb1ecf$10d48da0$327da8e0$@com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed"; DelSp="yes" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1278623450 10698 80.91.229.12 (8 Jul 2010 21:10:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2010 21:10:50 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Jul 08 23:10:48 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OWyMp-0000dU-NF for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Jul 2010 23:10:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EAFAC9C24; Thu, 8 Jul 2010 23:10:47 +0200 (CEST) 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 hpQjkqrig+RZ; Thu, 8 Jul 2010 23:10:44 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71B37C9C01; Thu, 8 Jul 2010 23:10:44 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA52EC9BFF for ; Thu, 8 Jul 2010 23:10:42 +0200 (CEST) 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 0eBVbgNEalfr for ; Thu, 8 Jul 2010 23:10:40 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from turan.fiee.net (turan.fiee.net [87.230.77.106]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B78EC9C01 for ; Thu, 8 Jul 2010 23:10:40 +0200 (CEST) X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender Original-Received: from turan.fiee.net (lvps87-230-77-106.dedicated.hosteurope.de [127.0.0.1]) by turan.fiee.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BBBA17BC02A2 for ; Thu, 8 Jul 2010 23:10:39 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [10.128.9.9] (164-71.76-83.cust.bluewin.ch [83.76.71.164]) by turan.fiee.net (Postfix) with ESMTP for ; Thu, 8 Jul 2010 23:10:39 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <023401cb1ecf$10d48da0$327da8e0$@com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.936) X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:60105 Archived-At: Am 2010-07-08 um 20:54 schrieb Tom: > I get very confused by all the different versions. You asked for the "best version", so we supposed you'd know several. > For starters, what is Tex > Live? Is it the full blown Context or is it something else? The TUG > site has > Tex Live 2009 which I assume is a stable version that is distributed > on DVDs > to TUG members. I get the impression that other Context "compilers" > for lack > of a better term exist and that Context Minimals is a stripped down > version > of a more powerful one. How far off track am I? There are only 2 different versions of ConTeXt, called Mark II and Mark IV (MkII, MkIV). They are always distributed together and still share a lot of code. MkII is stable, MkIV is the development version with several enhanced features and a completely new font handling. There are 3 different engines for TeX that work with ConTeXt: pdfTeX, XeTeX and LuaTeX. MkIV works only with LuaTeX, MkII with any. Font setups (typescripts) differ per engine. There are several distributions of TeX that contain ConTeXt, the most notable are TeX Live (jointly published by most TeX User Groups of the world) and MikTeX (Windows only). If you don't need LaTeX, we suggest our ConTeXt minimals distribution - at least for MkIV, because it's always the most up-to-date one. "Minimals" is in no way stripped down (even if it was meant to be a "bare bones" ConTeXt distro), but contains even several tools and free fonts. Most distributions contain all engines. MkII ist called by "texexec" (a Ruby script, i.e. you need Ruby installed), MkIV ist called by "context" (a Lua script, directly executed by LuaTeX). Greetlings from Lake Constance! Hraban --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://wiki.contextgarden.net https://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer) ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________