Re: `Standard' vs `Beta'?

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 03:14 27/11/2003, you wrote:

>what is the difference between the "distributed" and the "beta" versions 
>of context? How current is my version? Does it have all of the cool stuff 
>for doing "column sets"?

in most cases recent versions of distributions have the latest context, 
however, you can download the version from our site, put it in your texmf 
local tree, run mktexlsr and texexec --make --alone and it should work; i'm 
working on a tree on our server so that one can rsync

columnsets are available in older versions, but not always with all tricks

>type this in the terminal
>
>context -version
>
>prints this on the screen:

>pdfeTeX (Web2C 7.5.2) 3.141592-1.11a-2.1
>kpathsea version 3.5.2
>Copyright (C) 1997-2003 The NTS Team (eTeX)/Han The Thanh (pdfTeX).
>Kpathsea is copyright (C) 1997-2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>There is NO warranty.  Redistribution of this software is
>covered by the terms of both the pdfeTeX copyright and
>the GNU General Public License.
>For more information about these matters, see the files
>named COPYING and the pdfeTeX source.
>Primary author of pdfeTeX: The NTS Team (eTeX)/Han The Thanh (pdfTeX).
>Kpathsea written by Karl Berry and others.

there is a new pdfetex on the tex live dvd/cd, but for the moment 1.11a is pl

Hans