Re: [NTG-context] Spam:*****, Re: Page Numbering Hell

[Hans Hagen]

Bryant Eastham wrote:

[in addition to what others have said]


1. Should I use mkii or mkiv? If mkii, then what should I plan on as
schedule for upgrading?


if you plan to use context for a long time and want to be save with 
respect to fonts and encodings, i'd gamble on mkiv (here we use mkiv for 
everything but also run mkiv in projects that started year sago and have 
to run fo rmay years to come); in general it's no big deal to switch 
from mkii to mkiv later



2. Should I use context or texexec? As I understand, this is the same as
asking whether to use pdftex or luatex. It may also be related to the
mkii/mkiv issue, but I am less sure of that.


context is a lua script and mkiv needs that one; texexec targets at 
mkii; in principle you can use contet to run mkii as well, as it will 
just call texexec; i have no time now (nor much reason) to convert the 
bit of code that mkii needs to lua, otherwise texexec could be dropped


concerning the 35 docs with 100's of pages ... the more docs and pages, 
the more time you can spend on a proper style setup (and investigation); 
anyhow, we use mkiv for small docs (manuals) as well as for handling 
large collections for customers (tens of thousands of different pages, 
spread over hundreds of documents, to be assembled in any combination or 
subset) and so far it works out ok, even if it's beta


Hans

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Re: [NTG-context] Spam:*****, RE: Page Numbering Hell

[Hans Hagen]

Bryant Eastham wrote:

Thanks to others for their responses. I will try them out tomorrow, and 
will be sure to collect all my hundreds of attempts for the amusement of 
the group - maybe in hopes of atoning for my rant. :-)


one of the problems of tex is that (potential) users often first seen 
the end products and working backwards from what one sees of not easy 
with tex based systems


another aspect is that it's easy to get some results but more complex 
demands need more complex solutions (hard coding each solution means 
even more need for manuals and finally not being able to locate an 
already given solution)


concerning the fact that you have to make a decision for a longer span 
of time, it's good to know that tex is normally quite stable and has 
survived other systems quite well, and that's unlikely to change; and we 
have no intentions to quit development (after all, development of mkiv 
is taking quite some of our resourceses and will do so for the next 
couple of years)


Hans

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