From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/63641 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context,gmane.comp.tex.texhax Subject: Re: [texhax] Choosing TeX um ... stuff Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 09:24:38 +0100 Message-ID: <4CE4E2C6.6080807@wxs.nl> References: <4CE44E78.3040601@Rhul.Ac.Uk> <1290031564.4ce451cc54c84@imp.free.fr> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1290068715 3454 80.91.229.12 (18 Nov 2010 08:25:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 08:25:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: texhax@tug.org, Paul Isambert , "Philip Taylor \(Webmaster, Ret'd\)" To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Nov 18 09:25:10 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PIznp-0004D5-Tw for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Nov 2010 09:25:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EAEACA851; Thu, 18 Nov 2010 09:25:09 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id w2uLuHYoZAM8; Thu, 18 Nov 2010 09:25:06 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58133CA84C; Thu, 18 Nov 2010 09:25:06 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82384CA84C for ; Thu, 18 Nov 2010 09:25:04 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 7f55b+hoWaEI for ; Thu, 18 Nov 2010 09:24:53 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from filter4-til.mf.surf.net (filter4-til.mf.surf.net [194.171.167.220]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30274CA82B for ; Thu, 18 Nov 2010 09:24:53 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from smtp.ziggozakelijk.nl (D57D1DA2.static.ziggozakelijk.nl [213.125.29.162]) by filter4-til.mf.surf.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5+lenny1) with ESMTP id oAI8OqlM001795 for ; Thu, 18 Nov 2010 09:24:52 +0100 X-Default-Received-SPF: pass (skip=loggedin (res=PASS)) x-ip-name=10.100.1.100; Original-Received: from [10.100.1.100] (unverified [10.100.1.100]) by pragma-net.nl (SurgeMail 4.3g4) with ESMTP id 15018-1713362 for multiple; Thu, 18 Nov 2010 09:20:55 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101027 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.6 ThunderBrowse/3.3.2 In-Reply-To: <1290031564.4ce451cc54c84@imp.free.fr> X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-9 X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=213.125.29.162; country=NL; region=11; city=Den Haag; latitude=52.0833; longitude=4.3000; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=52.0833,4.3000&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 05DwwoQgy - 73245053cf40 - 20101118 X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 194.171.167.220 X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 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 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:63641 gmane.comp.tex.texhax:14455 Archived-At: 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 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 : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________