On 9/24/07, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky wrote:
Hello,
Let me ask a few questions:
1) When "big things" will be regenerated? I'm still waiting for mswincontext with updated binaries.
I cannot answer that since it's Hans's decision. But I can assure you that a lot has been happenng in the meantime, esp. considering font loading. However, no matter how many iterations of bug reporting & bug fixing happen, new and new problems keep arising. Font loading in XeTeX has been broken since February (since the first tries to support OpenType LM instead of old TFM variants) and has only partially been fixed until now. And now, when finally the support has been improved, new problems have arised. Note that also three really important fixes have been added to XeTeX recently, so ConTeXt works much better with XeTeX 0.997.
2) What is the difference between mswincontext and mswintex packages?
mswincontext also includes scite. Perhap's there's more that I'm not aware of, but the rest should be pretty the same. mswintex only includes binaries. You also need to download justtex.
3) If someone made mswincontext to work with latest updates, can he or she post how? After September 10 update of cont-tfm my installation produces broken pdfs, and even getting latest luatex from sourge didn't help.
It's the ConTeXt distribution, not the binaries which are broken. You can download http://minimals.contextgarden.net/bin/windows/rsync/ and then use rsync -rvzctl rsync://contextgarden.net/minimals/minimals/windows/ your-folder for the majority of the standard minimals or rsync -rvzctl rsync://contextgarden.net/minimals/context/beta/ your-folder to get only a working version of ConTeXt or rsync -rvzctl rsync://contextgarden.net/minimals/os/windows/ your-folder to get only the binaries. But it's all in an experimental stage, and it's far from complete, so take this only as a temporary solution. The structure of "minimals" will change, that's for sure, but you can use it now to compile your documents. But note that there are still some problems: - wrong font size in XeTeX - textext("...") in metapost doesn't work - most probably others, not yet discovered Mojca