Re: mark ii/iv

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Jano Kula wrote:
>> Hi Hans,
>>
>> you can find a description of mark ii and mark iv in the following
>> document:
>>
>> http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/mk.pdf
>>
>> You could add a link to this file to contextgarden.
>>     
>
> Hi,
>
> I've put the short description and link in
>
> http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Glossary
>
> where I'd like to add consistent ConTeXt terminology to make orientation 
> in ConTeXt easier. Others are welcome, too, of course.
>
> After reading the document I still miss the good term for this level of 
> versioning ("kind of version tag") to distiguish it from "usual" ConTeXt 
> versioning.
>
> Hans H., how do you want these versioning systems to be called?
>
> ? [date version] = ConTeXt  ver: 2006.10.27 15:16
> ? [mark version] = MK II
>   
the mk versioning is only relevant for engines, i.e. mkiv will provide lua based implementations as well as in the future more functionality. 

pdftex / xetex : mkii
luatex         : mkiv 

in some sense, mkiv is a next generation context but downward compatible 

Hans 

Hans 

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