On Thursday, March 14, 2013, Hans Hagen wrote:

> On 3/14/2013 1:14 AM, Jonathan Barchi wrote:
>
>> For what it's worth, that example compiled properly for me (with bold
>> where it should be) using beta 0.60 build 2013.03.11 00:17
>>
>
> The current context will only work with a luatex 0.75+ so what is 0.60 here


This is context (mkiv) 0.60, which I've been keeping up-to-date from
contextgarden as betas are released; my luaTeX is also current (from
minimals as well).


>  Was this bug already fixed in that beta build?
>>
>
> Indeed. There is also some speedup e.g. in logging (pending further
> speedup in the engine, which makes a difference when using the windows
> console that has a high update rate which is not that nice for one-by-one
> char tex output, esp when running rdp on a headless server).
>
> Hans
>
> btw, luatex/mkiv is in many cases now faster than pdftex/mkii


I'm impressed with the speed of mkiv, coming directly from pdfLaTeX. I
skipped right over mkii; the last time I considered this question (back in
~2008) recommendations seemed to be to stick with LaTeX, but this time (I
think) the MacTeX install docs recommended starting out with
ConTeXt/LuaTeX. I'm certainly glad that I did; my only wish if for better
documentation, and I'll try to help with this on the wiki.


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