On Wednesday 21 October 2009 18:52:21 Bryant Eastham wrote:
1. Should I use mkii or mkiv? If mkii, then what should I plan on as schedule for upgrading?
I asked this question recently and was told that it was probably pretty safe now to use mkiv, "as the developers use mkiv themselves". My experience is that mkiv is not totally stable, but almost so. I try to use it for my production as much as possible. For the core of the commands, the two are interchangable and it is simply a question of using the "context" script or the "texexec" script (but don't include a % output=pdftex line in your source file!) For specific differences, you can use \doifmodeelse{mkiv}{ }{ } This also answers 2.
3. What *reference* material exists? I do not need a user guide. Right now it has been Google. However, the solutions most recently mentioned on the mailing lists seem to dead-end. I am fine with an answer of "see the source code" if that is really it.
Did you look at the "user guide"? It is a reference manual http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/cont-eni.pdf http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/cont-enp.pdf The first is a "screen" version, the second a "paper" format. (and called context-reference or contextref.pdf on the svn) A rich source is: http://www.pragma-ade.com/overview.htm