Taco Hoekwater wrote:
Hi,
I have good news as well as bad news.
The good news is that the coming TeXLive will be nicely up to date when it comes to ConTeXt (currently at 2006.12.07).
The bad news is that core-fnt and core-ext will not be included.
Apparently, the first package that uses a certain directory becomes its 'owner' when it comes to TeXLive's distribution build scripts. Since there are already a number of fontpackages for LaTeX included, there is no way to add metrics for ConTeXt as well.
I have proposed to look into the build scripts, but the reaction I received was luke-warm at best, so I am not going to persue this any further. I am sorry for everybody that wanted to see some of the third-party modules in TL.
It should still be possible to have them included if one of you is willing and able to make the effort of renaming the used folders so as to avoid conflicts with LaTeX packages, but I simply cannot be bothered any more.
since the filenames themselves do not conflict, i see no reason for all kind of redundant context prefixes in filenames and directories; at least i'm not going to do that and i'm also not going to adapt my local scripts to deal with it (the zip builders and such); anyhow, the zip's will be on the collection dvd anyway so users can install them then Hans