Re: [NTG-context] Architecture Sketch

15 Apr 2008

      Suno Ano wrote:
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| On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 16:38:20 +0200,
| luigi scarso
| who can be reached at: luigi.scarso@gmail.com
| (whose comments are cited below with " luigi> "),
| had this to say in article 
| in newsgroups gmane.comp.tex.context
| concerning the subject of Re: Architecture Sketch
| (see <87abjvxncs.fsf@googlemail.com> for more details)
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hi folks, How do they fit together? Is there some sort of
architecure chart somewhere so newbies can get a hold within a few
seconds? Luatex <==> tex context <==> latex
 luigi> ok ?
nope, I do not get it especially for the latex part. What about this:
+--------------------------+
        | ConTeXt, used for        |
        | creating the source      |
        | files to luatex          |
        +--------------------------+
      	   ^
      	   |
      	   |
             	   |
      	   |
      	   |
        +--------------------------+
        | luatex, a bunch of       |
        |	libraries and whatnot    |
        |	which is going to replace|
        | pdfTeX       	         |
        |               	         |
        +--------------------------+
So where do LaTeX and MkIV fit into this?
pdftex, xetex, luatex: engines

context mkii: pdftex/xetex
context mkiv: luatex
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Which tells me exactly nothing :-) Actually to rephrase what I meant and
to what it boils down:
no need to discard old knowledge ... there will be new mkiv-only 
features, some hacks will go away
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,----[ Question ]
| What will happen to folks like me who just need/want to write great
| documents using ConTeXt?
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If someone could shed some light onto this, I would be very thankful ...
just see mkiv as a next version; the reason for calling it mkiv is that 
context never had fundamental versions, like latex (original, 2e, 3)

in order to prevent users asking "hey, there will be latex 3, when will 
there be acontext 3" i skipped the 3 and went for the 4 ...

... the mark part was inspired by deep purple using mk as tag for each 
new combination (which got my attention when i found out that steve 
morse was part of mk7 onwards, and the first code i wrote was with steve 
morse cd's in loop mode ...

... so now everyone knows why context mkiv is called mkiv; and yes, i 
only have DP mkvii/mkviii cd's/dvd's; and i'm not that no sure if there 
will be a context mkvii -)

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