From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/48129 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Aditya Mahajan Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: beta: \vi (mkiv) Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 12:57:20 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: References: <49B51F50.4060304@gmx.net> <49B52B14.9020304@wxs.nl> <49B549A0.9000307@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"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1236617956 17208 80.91.229.12 (9 Mar 2009 16:59:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 16:59:16 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Mon Mar 09 18:00:33 2009 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 1Lgiq6-0001Lq-C8 for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Mar 2009 18:00:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B07341FC84; Mon, 9 Mar 2009 17:59:06 +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 08690-02-4; Mon, 9 Mar 2009 17:58:16 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 653DA1FBD5; Mon, 9 Mar 2009 17:58:16 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BBC61FBFB for ; Mon, 9 Mar 2009 17:58:15 +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 08690-02-3 for ; Mon, 9 Mar 2009 17:58:00 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from filter3-ams.mf.surf.net (filter3-ams.mf.surf.net [192.87.102.71]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E18C21FBC9 for ; Mon, 9 Mar 2009 17:58:00 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from hellskitchen.mr.itd.umich.edu (smtp.mail.umich.edu [141.211.14.82]) by filter3-ams.mf.surf.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id n29Gvt1c000702 for ; Mon, 9 Mar 2009 17:57:56 +0100 Original-Received: FROM [192.168.2.8] (c-71-234-195-113.hsd1.ct.comcast.net [71.234.195.113]) BY hellskitchen.mr.itd.umich.edu ID 49B54A92.A9EFC.31531 ; 9 Mar 2009 12:57:54 -0400 In-Reply-To: <49B549A0.9000307@wxs.nl> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LNX 1167 2008-08-23) X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=141.211.14.82; country=US; region=MI; city=Ann Arbor; postalcode=48109; latitude=42.2923; longitude=-83.7145; metrocode=505; areacode=734; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=42.2923,-83.7145&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 190830765 - b906621f6d10 X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 192.87.102.71 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 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:48129 Archived-At: 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________