Re: unic-xxx.tex glyph lists: minor bugs, questions

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Sanjoy Mahajan wrote:
>>> I'll experiment, especially if I can figure out a set of magic
>>> kpathsea paths to keep mkii and mkiv in parallel.
>>>       
>
>   
>> no need for that ; it is made to run in parallel, just an extra zip
>> with mkiv and lua files ending up in base, and luatools.lua ending
>> up in the script path; also, mkiv does not use kpse -)
>>     
>
> Great.  When the mkiv zip is available, I'll try it (tried poking
> around the pragma site but didn't find it).  No kpse is indeed good
> news!
>   
i will put it there as soon as tex live is really frozen since we don't 
want a mess up now
> About backward compatability, maybe the mkiv transition is the time to
> sacrifice backward compatability in a few instances where it makes the
> code or user interface simpler?  One example off the top of my head is
> \setuppapersize[ABC] becoming equivalent to \setuppapersize[ABC][ABC]
> (rather than to \setuppapersize[ABC][A4]), and there are no doubt
> others.  Or is the (understandable) policy of ConTeXt development that
> backward compatability is paramount?
>   
i've always tried to be downward compatible, but some changes are less 
dangerous (like the setuppapersize proposal)

however, such changes then would also affect mkii (typesetting part 
mostly the same);

another issue is that i want to move towards a 'macro package building 
block' approach so that one can combine components to make specialized 
versions

anyhow, you can collect UI issues and organize a poll on the wiki

Hans

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