From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/36760 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: still waiting for mswincontext Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 09:50:53 +0200 Message-ID: <46FA0F5D.7040506@wxs.nl> References: <932847639.20070924171201@gmail.com> <6faad9f00709251502w585cf862m24bb3392996abf25@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1190793327 28106 80.91.229.12 (26 Sep 2007 07:55:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 07:55:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Yatskovsky To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Wed Sep 26 09:55:22 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IaRjt-00064E-7q for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; 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Wed, 26 Sep 2007 09:54:50 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.100] (unverified [10.100.1.100]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.7b8) with ESMTP id 15953 for multiple; Wed, 26 Sep 2007 09:50:53 +0200 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728) In-Reply-To: <6faad9f00709251502w585cf862m24bb3392996abf25@mail.gmail.com> X-Server: High Performance Mail Server - http://surgemail.com r=-274017400 X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-1 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 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 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:36760 Archived-At: Mojca Miklavec wrote: > Note that also three really important fixes have been added to XeTeX > recently, so ConTeXt works much better with XeTeX 0.997. the bottom line is, that we need to make sure that we hav ethe most recent bins for all platforms before we can generate minimals > It's the ConTeXt distribution, not the binaries which are broken. i'm a bit puzzled ... for pdftex, nothing changed, for luatex, indeed bins and zips need to be in sync (esp because there have been changes in the lua font code that needed adaptions in the mkiv code) and xetex ... well, that's an interplay between engine and macros and trying to adapt i think that luatex and xetex are fast moving targets so in most cases one needs to have updates of them and macro packages in sync; xetexs font syntax has changed over time, currently a feature was added to intercept problems but this is only on the latest bins, font searching is very engine dependent and also to some extend os dependent (upper/lowercase) etc etc anyhow, the dust will probably settle in a few weeks (new bins available everywhere) a tricky area is metapost ... since mp cannot handle open type we need to bend the rules sometimes and do ugly workarounds but we're getting there > But note that there are still some problems: > - wrong font size in XeTeX more a xetex problem > - textext("...") in metapost doesn't work will never work completely if one uses different fonts in xetex and metapost in one document (well, it can work, but one had to make sure that the map stuff is sorted out then) > - most probably others, not yet discovered we'll try to keep them hidden -) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl ----------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________