From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: Alan BRASLAU <alan.braslau@cea.fr>
Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: mkiv structure
Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:44:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A51E3A1.4000204@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200907060020.57585.alan.braslau@cea.fr>
Alan BRASLAU wrote:
> On Friday 03 July 2009 16:04:07 Hans Hagen wrote:
>>> Obsolete in mkii?
>>> Shouldn't basic use (read standard users)
>>> treat source text transparently
>>> between mkii and mkiv?
>> no, this is one of the few places where there will be a difference; we
>> have way more control now (also to the detail of setting up styles for
>> each separator in a composed number) but that comes at a price; i don't
>> want to complicate the mkiv code with too many compatibility hacks
>
> I understand and I do agree, basically.
> However, any (and all) differences need to be clearly documented.
> I know that you are working on this. Perhaps we need to put together
> a mkii->mkiv changes summary document, from the users point of view
> updating http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Mark_IV (or Mark_IV_differences).
feel free to document this on the wiki
we can tag such incompatibilities as 'permanent', 'temporary' and 'to be
discussed'
there will also be a module that collects a couple of 'obsolete'
commands (often obsolete because we have better methods now but some
ancient style might use them)
Hans
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-06 11:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-15 8:02 Hans Hagen
2009-07-02 18:34 ` Alan BRASLAU
2009-07-02 21:25 ` Hans Hagen
2009-07-03 8:12 ` Alan BRASLAU
2009-07-03 14:04 ` Hans Hagen
2009-07-05 9:32 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2009-07-08 8:28 ` Hans Hagen
2009-07-08 10:10 ` Hans Hagen
2009-07-05 22:20 ` Alan BRASLAU
2009-07-06 11:44 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2009-07-09 7:38 ` Hans Hagen
2009-07-09 7:59 ` Alan BRASLAU
2009-07-09 12:27 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2009-07-09 12:39 ` Hans Hagen
2009-07-02 19:17 ` references (mainlanguage) Alan BRASLAU
2009-07-02 21:07 ` Willi Egger
2009-07-03 7:07 ` Alan BRASLAU
2009-07-02 21:22 ` Hans Hagen
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