Re: No straightforward .png support in ConTeXt?

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Frans Goddijn wrote:
> 
> said Berend de Boer  to All:
> 
>  BdB> enough. I find web2c far easier to  use/install that 4AllTeX
>  BdB> (which I tried before) but which doesn't work  quite well outside
>  BdB> 4dos.
> 
> That's like complaining a fish doesn't swim so well after you took out the
> spine... ;=}
> 
> I am also *very* excited about the context/web2c combination, but I also
> like 4TEX very much, and 4TEX was revolutionary when it came out first.
> It's still very strong, besides having some quirks.

Just some remarks: 

(1) Installing TeX has never been easy, think alone of all those fonts. 
(2) 4TeX aims at integrating as much tex related utilities as possible.
(3) Web2c+kpathsea use the TDS file structure and therefore can do 
    with one configuration file. 
(4) The next version 4TeX uses web2c.  

Also keep in mind that only since Thomas and Sebastian started their
distributions, unix installation became straight forward!

With context I want to be as independant as possible and therefore I
will need all your help. 

(1) The format should run on all platforms (which is not trivial given
differences in font handling and drivers) 
(2) TeXUtil should also run on all platforms (easy because it is perl).
(3) TeXExec (some day soon) should also work on all platforms. 

and 

(4) Maybe someday we will also port our ;project oriented' editing
environment. 

Just let me know if there are any problems. I soon will use unix too,
but due to some constraints will keep on runing W95/DOS versions.   

The main platforms/user dependant thing we will have to sort out soon is
fonts. I don't want context users to enter the messy field of hacking
fonts. For those intereseted in this topic: just mention/discuss your
wishes on this list. 

Hans 

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