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From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Cc: texhax@tug.org, Paul Isambert <zappathustra@free.fr>,
	"Philip Taylor \(Webmaster, Ret'd\)" <P.Taylor@rhul.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: [texhax] Choosing TeX um ... stuff
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 09:24:38 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CE4E2C6.6080807@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1290031564.4ce451cc54c84@imp.free.fr>

On 17-11-2010 11:06, Paul Isambert wrote:

> Philip, plain TeX isn't exactly mainstream anymore, and ConTeXt probably beats
> it on this point. And ConTeXt is already more than 15 years old, so it's not so
> new, although it does keep moving.

fyi, there are two versions of context:

- mkii is a frozen snapshot of context that runs on top of pdftex and xetex
- mkiv is the mainstream version and runs on top of luatex; it is a 
rathere drastic rewrite + major upgrade and many internals are pretty 
new but is mostly downward compatible as well

Hans


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  reply	other threads:[~2010-11-18  8:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-17 21:23 Peter Davis
2010-11-17 21:38 ` Mojca Miklavec
2010-11-17 21:51 ` Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
2010-11-17 22:06   ` Paul Isambert
2010-11-18  8:24     ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2010-11-18  8:35     ` [texhax] " luigi scarso
2010-11-18 10:56     ` Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
2010-11-17 22:00 ` Hans Hagen
2010-11-18  1:29   ` Peter Davis

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