Alan BRASLAU wrote:
On Friday 03 July 2009 16:04:07 Hans Hagen wrote:
Obsolete in mkii?
Shouldn't basic use (read standard users)
treat source text transparently
between mkii and mkiv?
no, this is one of the few places where there will be a difference; we
have way more control now (also to the detail of setting up styles for
each separator in a composed number) but that comes at a price; i don't
want to complicate the mkiv code with too many compatibility hacks
I understand and I do agree, basically.
However, any (and all) differences need to be clearly documented.
I know that you are working on this. Perhaps we need to put together
a mkii->mkiv changes summary document, from the users point of view
updating http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Mark_IV (or Mark_IV_differences).
feel free to document this on the wiki
we can tag such incompatibilities as 'permanent', 'temporary' and 'to be
discussed'
there will also be a module that collects a couple of 'obsolete'
commands (often obsolete because we have better methods now but some
ancient style might use them)
Hans
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