Alan BRASLAU wrote:
On Friday 03 July 2009 16:04:07 Hans Hagen wrote:
Obsolete in mkii? Shouldn't basic use (read standard users) treat source text transparently between mkii and mkiv? no, this is one of the few places where there will be a difference; we have way more control now (also to the detail of setting up styles for each separator in a composed number) but that comes at a price; i don't want to complicate the mkiv code with too many compatibility hacks
I understand and I do agree, basically. However, any (and all) differences need to be clearly documented. I know that you are working on this. Perhaps we need to put together a mkii->mkiv changes summary document, from the users point of view updating http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Mark_IV (or Mark_IV_differences).
feel free to document this on the wiki we can tag such incompatibilities as 'permanent', 'temporary' and 'to be discussed' there will also be a module that collects a couple of 'obsolete' commands (often obsolete because we have better methods now but some ancient style might use them) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------