Re: When to migrate from MKII to MKIV?

[Dave <confused.scientist@gmail.com>]

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On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Mojca Miklavec <
mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com> wrote:

> If you neglect the bugs and problems, transition should be painless -
> only typescripts need to be updated, but once you do that, your
> documents could even work with both mkii and mkiv.


I recall that it took me a good week of work in the evenings to get my
regular and math typescripts to work correctly with MKII.  I'm happy with
the PDF output of the papers/notes, lecture notes I write for work but I
will need to switch to OTF in the not-too distant future.  My university has
a site license for various Adobe pro fonts but they are only being
distributed in OTF now.  The ones I currently use were derived
from manipulating a set of multiple-masters a few years ago.


> Btw: math is a big mess at the moment; you can expect any kind of bugs
> related to maths with next beta version, but you can become a beta
> tester :)
>

I do physics/chemistry with a lot of equations so incomplete math support is
really a deal breaker for me.  I recall there being issues with some aspects
of bibliography support and a lack of fonts when I last tried the Minimal
package.  Again, deal breakers for me so I reverted to the ConTeXt included
in the 2008 version of texlive with a few bug-fixes from a more recent beta.

I think it would be very helpful to most ConTeXt 'users' if there were a
wiki page that spelled out the current status of MKIV exactly and listed
which features of MKII work, which are buggy, and which are work in
progress.  Something a little more high-level than the release notes and
this mailing list ;)

Thank you to everyone who contribute here.  I often find myself amazed at
the speed at which ConTeXt develops and very much look forward to the end of
font voodoo as promised by MKIV.

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