From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: Newbie needs help getting started
Date: Mon, 04 May 2015 18:37:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5547A052.4080803@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALBOmsbO1iib-FKZD0-yjs6j0ey8EnfJ9BDVXK5eiQCQ-zcLug@mail.gmail.com>
On 5/4/2015 5:14 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> But the weird thing is that "Fatal format file error; I'm stymied"
> error was common with pdfTeX. With ConTeXt MkIV the formats are
> usually regenerated automatically.
It's not that weird: pdftex etc have no check on the format so if for
instance a new primitive an old format will crash the new tex. For that
reason we added a compatibility version number to luatex (starting at
asciisum("DEK") to test to luatex format loading that will quit when
that number jumped .. we're now one version further down the line. So
... a quit instead of a crash. So, if pdftex would add a primitive it
doesn't give that message but either crashes or runs on with the wrong
mem undump.
Hans
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-05-04 16:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-05-04 12:49 Johan Råde
2015-05-04 14:25 ` Pablo Rodriguez
2015-05-05 8:26 ` Johan Råde
2015-05-04 15:14 ` Mojca Miklavec
2015-05-04 16:37 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2015-05-08 17:00 ` Johan Råde
2015-05-08 17:23 ` Hans Hagen
2015-05-09 6:25 ` Johan Råde
2015-05-06 1:23 Andres Conrado
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