Re: unic-xxx.tex glyph lists: minor bugs, questions

[Sanjoy Mahajan <sanjoy@mrao.cam.ac.uk>]

>> I'll experiment, especially if I can figure out a set of magic
>> kpathsea paths to keep mkii and mkiv in parallel.

> no need for that ; it is made to run in parallel, just an extra zip
> with mkiv and lua files ending up in base, and luatools.lua ending
> up in the script path; also, mkiv does not use kpse -)

Great.  When the mkiv zip is available, I'll try it (tried poking
around the pragma site but didn't find it).  No kpse is indeed good
news!

About backward compatability, maybe the mkiv transition is the time to
sacrifice backward compatability in a few instances where it makes the
code or user interface simpler?  One example off the top of my head is
\setuppapersize[ABC] becoming equivalent to \setuppapersize[ABC][ABC]
(rather than to \setuppapersize[ABC][A4]), and there are no doubt
others.  Or is the (understandable) policy of ConTeXt development that
backward compatability is paramount?

-Sanjoy

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