On Thursday, March 14, 2013, Hans Hagen wrote:

On 3/14/2013 1:14 AM, Jonathan Barchi wrote:

For what it's worth, that example compiled properly for me (with bold
where it should be) using beta 0.60 build 2013.03.11 00:17

The current context will only work with a luatex 0.75+ so what is 0.60 here

This is context (mkiv) 0.60, which I've been keeping up-to-date from contextgarden as betas are released; my luaTeX is also current (from minimals as well).

Was this bug already fixed in that beta build?

Indeed. There is also some speedup e.g. in logging (pending further speedup in the engine, which makes a difference when using the windows console that has a high update rate which is not that nice for one-by-one char tex output, esp when running rdp on a headless server).

Hans

btw, luatex/mkiv is in many cases now faster than pdftex/mkii

I'm impressed with the speed of mkiv, coming directly from pdfLaTeX. I skipped right over mkii; the last time I considered this question (back in ~2008) recommendations seemed to be to stick with LaTeX, but this time (I think) the MacTeX install docs recommended starting out with ConTeXt/LuaTeX. I'm certainly glad that I did; my only wish if for better documentation, and I'll try to help with this on the wiki.

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