From: Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: beta: \vi (mkiv)
Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 12:57:20 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.0903091255350.1888@ybpnyubfg.ybpnyqbznva> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49B549A0.9000307@wxs.nl>
On Mon, 9 Mar 2009, Hans Hagen wrote:
> Aditya Mahajan wrote:
>> On Mon, 9 Mar 2009, Hans Hagen wrote:
>>
>>> Peter Rolf wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> currently trying the latest(?) beta from 08.03.2009. No problems with
>>>> colors so far...
>>>> But a simple font size switch like '\vi' has no effect here.
>>>>
>>>> \starttext
>>>> Regular size and {\vi six point}?
>>>> \stoptext
>>>>
>>>> Also the 'lazy' \z@ has vanished (too many sideeffects?). RIP.
>>>
>>> indeed. \z@ and \p@ are gone as are \@ne and \m@ne
>>>
>>> also, the \v \vi \vii and sich are gone as they were artefacts form the
>>> previous century
>>>
>>> feel free to make a compaibility module ...
>>>
>>> \let\p@\onepoint
>>
>> We will definitely need this, at least for getting tikz to work with
>> ConTeXt.
>
> ok, but separated from the code; it's no problem to load it by default, but
> context internally will not use them
definitely. It should be part of the distribution, so that someone writing
a module that works with both ConTeXt and LaTeX does not need to know both
systems inside out.
And a similar package for LaTeX, having most programming features present
in ConTeXt, will be nice :)
Aditya
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-09 13:53 Peter Rolf
2009-03-09 14:43 ` Hans Hagen
2009-03-09 16:38 ` Aditya Mahajan
2009-03-09 16:53 ` Hans Hagen
2009-03-09 16:57 ` Aditya Mahajan [this message]
2009-03-09 17:06 ` Hans Hagen
2009-03-09 17:07 ` Hans Hagen
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