On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 09:26:08AM +0100, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
Another German, and I agree, too, with every point Peter makes. As an addition: I would vote for keeping "` and "'. I know that \quotation{ } is better and have been using it for a while now, but I also know that many older documents still have the old quotes, and when I began using TeX, they were considered standard. I think it's better to gently convince users to switch to the better style, not force them by breaking their documents.
Hello, In general, I vote against keeping such features just for some old documents, because: - recompiling an old document with a recent ConTeXt-version, will give you problems in almost every case anyway, since ConTeXt is evolving constantly, old bug get fixed, new bugs come, workarounds have to be adapted - it's easy to translate old documents with tools like sed - it's easy to burn a CD-ROM with an old distribution to recompile old documents - it's easy to keep the pdf somewhere (that's what I do) Just to give you an example: my brother's thesis compiles fine with version 2007.01.12, but when I try it today, it stops with ! Missing \endcsname inserted. <to be read again> \def \dohandlemathpunctuation #1#2->\def \next {\csname \ifx \space \nexttoken #2... <argument> \??fs chemic, bib,typearea,chromato \ifundefined #1->\unless \ifcsname #1 \endcsname \truefilename #1->\ifundefined {\??fs #1} #1\else \truefilename {\csname \??f... <to be read again> ...hemic,bib,typearea,chromato} .} ... l.55 Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/