From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/31942 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sanjoy Mahajan Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: unic-xxx.tex glyph lists: minor bugs, questions Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 23:54:01 +0000 Message-ID: References: <455C8FCA.30109@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 1164239665 836 80.91.229.2 (22 Nov 2006 23:54:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 23:54:25 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Nov 23 00:54:23 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 1Gn1uz-0001ft-Js for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Nov 2006 00:54:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C9A11FEFF; Thu, 23 Nov 2006 00:53:08 +0100 (CET) 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 32227-03; Thu, 23 Nov 2006 00:53:02 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 990551FED4; Thu, 23 Nov 2006 00:53:01 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 949EE1FEF6 for ; Thu, 23 Nov 2006 00:52:59 +0100 (CET) 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 32373-01 for ; Thu, 23 Nov 2006 00:52:54 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from mraos.ra.phy.cam.ac.uk (mraos.ra.phy.cam.ac.uk [131.111.48.8]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id 95DEF1FA86 for ; Thu, 23 Nov 2006 00:52:54 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from skye.ra.phy.cam.ac.uk ([131.111.48.158] ident=mail) by mraos.ra.phy.cam.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gn1uj-0005FE-HB; Wed, 22 Nov 2006 23:54:01 +0000 Original-Received: from sanjoy by skye.ra.phy.cam.ac.uk with local (Exim 3.36 #1) id 1Gn1uj-0002xQ-00; Wed, 22 Nov 2006 23:54:01 +0000 Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 16 Nov 2006 17:20:26 +0100." <455C8FCA.30109@wxs.nl> 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:31942 Archived-At: >> 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 `Never underestimate the evil of which men of power are capable.' --Bertrand Russell, _War Crimes in Vietnam_, chapter 1.