Re: `Standard' vs `Beta'?

[Bob Kerstetter <bkerstetter@mac.com>]

Thanks, Hans.


On Nov 27, 2003, at 3:26 AM, Hans Hagen wrote:

> At 03:14 27/11/2003, you wrote:
>
>> what is the difference between the "distributed" and the "beta" 
>> versions of context? How current is my version? Does it have all of 
>> the cool stuff for doing "column sets"?
>
> in most cases recent versions of distributions have the latest 
> context, however, you can download the version from our site, put it 
> in your texmf local tree, run mktexlsr and texexec --make --alone and 
> it should work; i'm working on a tree on our server so that one can 
> rsync
>
> columnsets are available in older versions, but not always with all 
> tricks
>
>> type this in the terminal
>>
>> context -version
>>
>> prints this on the screen:
>
>> pdfeTeX (Web2C 7.5.2) 3.141592-1.11a-2.1
>> kpathsea version 3.5.2
>> Copyright (C) 1997-2003 The NTS Team (eTeX)/Han The Thanh (pdfTeX).
>> Kpathsea is copyright (C) 1997-2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>> There is NO warranty.  Redistribution of this software is
>> covered by the terms of both the pdfeTeX copyright and
>> the GNU General Public License.
>> For more information about these matters, see the files
>> named COPYING and the pdfeTeX source.
>> Primary author of pdfeTeX: The NTS Team (eTeX)/Han The Thanh (pdfTeX).
>> Kpathsea written by Karl Berry and others.
>
> there is a new pdfetex on the tex live dvd/cd, but for the moment 
> 1.11a is pl
>
> Hans
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