Re: ConTeXt on the Mac (TexShop). Problem of a newbie

From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Cc: "Meigen, Thomas" <T.Meigen@augenklinik.uni-wuerzburg.de>
Subject: Re: ConTeXt on the Mac (TexShop). Problem of a newbie
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 14:11:30 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50F00F82.4070200@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8E16D40C6A36AF46A9050494F6F6A7BB39AEED02@wklex05v.klinik.uni-wuerzburg.de>

On 1/11/2013 11:58 AM, Meigen, Thomas wrote:

>> 1 \usemodule[s-pre-05]
>
> crashed for s-pre-05 and most of the other s-pre-XX modules indicates that
> such crashes have nothing to do with the decision to load modules from
> other users. The s-pre-XX modules are part of the standalone ConTeXt
> installation, my installation was fine, but a recent update of some mkiv
> component was not compatible with luatex.

Most of those presentation styles were used at tex user group meetings 
and in those cases I often use new (or experimental) functionality, i.e. 
hooking in extentions and such; in the transition from mkii to mkiv some 
of the hacks needed in traditional tex are gone but then I need to check 
all those styles too and I don't use them that often.

> So what to do next? Load an earlier ConText version? Wait until this
> problem is fixed? If the mkiv <-> luatex interaction is the reason for this
> problem, the problems might not be restricted to some s-pre-XX
> modules (that are unchanged since about two years...) ?

The benefits of mkiv over mkii compensate the occasional issue. Also, 
issues are often fixed quite fast and as we have a perfect update 
structure running on the garden problems never stay long. I (and 
probably others) use mkiv in (often unattended) production runs so it's 
on the average pretty useable. I haven't used mkii for years.

Hans

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