From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/31235 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Mojca Miklavec" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: bug?: interaction between columns and background Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 18:38:27 +0200 Message-ID: <6faad9f00610050938w5fa667afv976c3f96b3a9c2ae@mail.gmail.com> References: <6faad9f00609010042y67066206k3302cd1a50f2c695@mail.gmail.com> <44F7F7A1.6020203@gmx.net> <6faad9f00609010343t3f47164cpa8b68e32efc3f4b5@mail.gmail.com> <451D2794.9070006@wxs.nl> <6faad9f00609290912g2bc66be1k62dfee7cd36f4b99@mail.gmail.com> <4520D82E.3080402@wxs.nl> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1160066495 18990 80.91.229.2 (5 Oct 2006 16:41:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 16:41:35 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Oct 05 18:41:25 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GVWFO-0001ZP-8R for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Oct 2006 18:38:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E930D1FE7F; Thu, 5 Oct 2006 18:38:54 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 07152-05; Thu, 5 Oct 2006 18:38:46 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 198351FE57; Thu, 5 Oct 2006 18:38:46 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 660661FE57 for ; Thu, 5 Oct 2006 18:38:42 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 07926-04 for ; Thu, 5 Oct 2006 18:38:36 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.232]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id 38E291FE31 for ; Thu, 5 Oct 2006 18:38:33 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id s12so548815wxc for ; Thu, 05 Oct 2006 09:38:28 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.90.78.9 with SMTP id a9mr1017408agb; Thu, 05 Oct 2006 09:38:27 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.90.25.15 with HTTP; Thu, 5 Oct 2006 09:38:27 -0700 (PDT) Original-To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.7 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 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:31235 Archived-At: On 10/5/06, Aditya Mahajan wrote: > Hans, can ctxtools be modified to give the option of downloading both > the stable and latest branch? --updatecontext gives the beta which, > being a beta, has occasional bugs. So this method of updating context > can not be recommended to new users. How about adding > > ctxtools --updatecontext --stable to give the stable branch, or > instead make fetching the stable branch default and give --beta to > download the beta. Maybe even extract everything with --beta to > TEXMFBETA folder so that maintaining beta and stable in parallel is > seamless. Right now there is texexec --beta for running the beta, but > then you have to maintain the beta tree manually. I would support all that you said (separate tree for beta, --update --beta, ...) Well, the very first bad experience that I had on other computers when trying to update ConTeXt with "--update": (un)zip as a command-line executable is usually missing on just any windows computer, so newbies have to overcome that one first :( Mojca