John Culleton wrote:
> I am becoming bewildered by the multiple versions of Context now being
> discussed. For some years now I have used Context for complex layouts with
> tables and so on. The texlive version works OK for me. But now I see.
> mkii
> mkiv
> XeTeX
> Luatex
> etc. etc.
> So what is the target audience for each of these branches? And what branch is
> best for me to keep track of for creating non-fiction books in English? And
> what is it called when I need to find and download it? I suspect mkii is the
> branch intended for lowly folk like me but confirmation would be comforting.
pdftex, xetex : mkii
luatex : mkiv
i think that in your case you can safely stick to what you use now (i.e.
pdftex + mkii); english is not that demanding when it comes to
encodings and related issues
also, i like some folks to keep testing mkii + pdftex -)
Hans
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