From: Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Mk IV and TeXlive 2008
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 07:48:25 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0809220745140.27463@nqv-yncgbc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48D77737.1030002@wxs.nl>
On Mon, 22 Sep 2008, Hans Hagen wrote:
> Marcin Borkowski wrote:
>> Hey,
>>
>> sorry to ask about something which was discussed here and on the wiki -
>> but I guess I need a clarification.
>>
>> The wiki says how to prepare Mk IV from TL 2008 to work. My questions
>> are:
>>
>> * from an end-user point of view, is it *really* necessary to have MkIV
>> upgraded always to the latest version? (I don't plan to use XML, I'm
>> just a beginning user of ConTeXt; what I would like to use are
>> tex-gyre fonts...)
>
> luatex and mkiv are actively developed while mkii is kind of frozen
However, if you really do not need bleeding edge features right now, you
can start with mkii. It works fine and can handle tex-gyre fonts very
easily. Once you get more confortable with context, you can see if you
decide if you want to upgrage mkiv to get the new features of mkiv.
Aditya
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-22 11:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-22 8:51 Marcin Borkowski
2008-09-22 10:45 ` Hans Hagen
2008-09-22 11:48 ` Aditya Mahajan [this message]
2008-09-22 10:53 ` Mojca Miklavec
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