ConTeXt is not an engine but that is a format just like LaTeٓ is. On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 2:25 AM, Peter Dyballa <peter_dyba...@web.de> wrote:
> > Am 20.10.2011 um 16:54 schrieb Chris Travers: > > > One of the other commentors talks about documents that don't render on > > all versions of TexLive. If a client of mine is depending on this > > working, upgrading the various stuff from CTAN in order to get a > > security fix in an underlying program is a non-starter because it may > > break things, just as it breaks other documents. > > You're mixing up things! TeX is a set of a few binaries, some of them are > the TeX engines (pdfTeX, XeTeX, LuaTeX, conTeXt). The majority of the TeX > software are text files. If a change in a library is breaking the TeX > engine, then the change itself is faulty. If you're using a TeX function > (library call) of a future version of that software, then something has to > fail. If you're using an old function (library call) that has been changed, > then you can't assume something useful will happen to come out. > > -- > Greetings > > Pete > > Life is the only flaw in an otherwise perfect nonexistence > – Schopenhauer > > > > > -------------------------------------------------- > Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: > http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex >
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