From: Dave <confused.scientist@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: When to migrate from MKII to MKIV?
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 15:57:50 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7a884c7c0902031257m7699ad01q41ec4ae032f1e314@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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Hi all,
I've been using ConTeXt for a few years and I'm curious about whether it is
worth migrating to MKIV (I've just re-read the mk.pdf document). Here are
the features I often use:
- Postscript fonts... I have typescripts setup for the fonts I bought
(full versions of Utopia, Minion, Warnock, and a few compatible sans fonts).
I believe I can get these as open-type as well if needed.
- Bibliography via \usemodule[bib]
- Chemistry via \usemodule[chemic]
- Inclusion of PDF figures using an XML Figure database, i.e.
\usemodule[fig-base]
- Equations (with the multiline and alignment macros) using Fourier/Utopia
including the bold math modifications in the MyWay document.
- Tables (tabulate, natural, linetable)
The questions I have:
1) Do all of the above work in MKIV?
2) How much of a pain is it to switch to MKIV? Do I need to rework my
fonts/typescripts? Will all my current environments (setups, macros and
one-line definitions) work?
3) Beyond speed and better font support, does it offer anything else to
me?
For the most part, I'm content with MKII and wonder if it is really worth
the effort to move to MKIV. Perhaps the sample is skewed, but after reading
the mailing list I get the impression that the current experimental/beta
MKIV has a number of bugs and is not particularly feature complete when
compared to MKII.
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next reply other threads:[~2009-02-03 20:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-03 20:57 Dave [this message]
2009-02-03 21:34 ` Aditya Mahajan
2009-02-04 7:01 ` Alan BRASLAU
2009-02-04 8:03 ` Joseph Wright
2009-02-04 9:21 ` luigi scarso
2009-02-03 22:16 ` Mojca Miklavec
[not found] ` <6faad9f00902031414y3eb293e8m6bfe4ae42094ecc2@mail.gmail.com>
2009-02-03 22:51 ` Dave
2009-02-03 23:12 ` Hans Hagen
2009-02-03 23:23 ` Arthur Reutenauer
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