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The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. --8323328-204920514-1382624122=:27245 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE On Thu, 24 Oct 2013, Lars Huttar wrote: > Hello, > I was looking into simplefonts > (http://wiki.contextgarden.net/simplefonts) and noticed the clause > >> if you=92re running ConTeXt Standalone >> (which is a better >> option) > > Well I'm using TeXLive, but am happy to take good advice, so I looked at > http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_Standalone to see why it would be > a better option. > The basic reason I can see is that Standalone is updated more frequently. Three or four years ago, when ConTeXt was moving from MkII to MkIV,=20 you had to run through hoops to get context working with TL. Since the=20 last two years, ConTeXt works out of the box in TL. > So if you're using bleeding-edge features of ConTeXt (including recent > fixes to simplefonts?), I can see wanting to use Standalone and have > access to the latest features and fixes. > > On the other hand, if you're working on a large production project that > has to be careful of stability, is there any advantage to Standalone > over TeXLive? Sure, you can keep a standalone version frozen in place, > but then that seems equivalent to staying with an existing version of > TeXLive. No. In some sense, it is better to use the frozen version that is part of= =20 TL rather than an arbitrary beta version from standalone. Every once in a= =20 while, the beta version has bugs (those are usually fixed in a matter of=20 hours). But it can be tricky to decide which version to freeze for a long= =20 term production environment. On the other hand, the version of ConTeXt that ships with TL is tested=20 more thoroughly. So, there is some guarantee that it will not include any= =20 serious bugs. Aditya --8323328-204920514-1382624122=:27245 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________ --8323328-204920514-1382624122=:27245--