From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/44201 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Aditya Mahajan Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Mk IV and TeXlive 2008 Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 07:48:25 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: References: <20080922085116.GE19070@atos.labs.wmid.amu.edu.pl> <48D77737.1030002@wxs.nl> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1222084383 9777 80.91.229.12 (22 Sep 2008 11:53:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 11:53:03 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Mon Sep 22 13:54:01 2008 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 lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KhjzG-00006e-CI for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Sep 2008 13:53:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B8BD20005; Mon, 22 Sep 2008 13:52:49 +0200 (CEST) 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 32744-03-9; Mon, 22 Sep 2008 13:51:54 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82F051FF06; Mon, 22 Sep 2008 13:49:40 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1906320058 for ; Mon, 22 Sep 2008 13:49:07 +0200 (CEST) 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 32744-03-5 for ; Mon, 22 Sep 2008 13:48:28 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from tombraider.mr.itd.umich.edu (smtp.mail.umich.edu [141.211.93.161]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39B0420052 for ; Mon, 22 Sep 2008 13:48:27 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: FROM adi-laptop-2.local (c-68-40-40-226.hsd1.mi.comcast.net [68.40.40.226]) BY tombraider.mr.itd.umich.edu ID 48D7860A.338C0.6363 ; 22 Sep 2008 07:48:26 -0400 In-Reply-To: <48D77737.1030002@wxs.nl> User-Agent: Alpine 1.00 (DEB 882 2007-12-20) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 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:44201 Archived-At: 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________