On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 4:49 PM, Marcin Borkowski wrote:

I've just downloaded and installed the long-expected TeXlive 2008:). My question is: is it's ConTeXt up-to-date? What about ConTeXt upgrades? (TeXlive 2008 can upgrade it's packages automatically; does anyone know how long will it take for new ConTeXt versions to propagate to TeXlive?) It would be much more convenient not to have two distinct TeX installations: one for LaTeX and one for ConTeXt...

Thanks in advance

Do you need MKIV? I fear it is too new and changing too rapidly for TL, even with updates. I've just been trying to get my ConTeXt stuff working, so while I can't comment on the plans of ConTeXt's authors, I can tell you what works for me, namely, MKII but not MKIV The latter says it can't find lm fonts. The version of luatex in TL2008 is: $ which luatex /usr/local/texlive/2008/bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu/luatex $ luatex --version | head -1 This is LuaTeX, Version snapshot-0.25.4-2008081616

From the linux minimals:

$ luatex --version This is LuaTeX, Version snapshot-0.28.0-2008071500 MKIV from minimal is working for me (Fedora 8 32-bit). The environment modules system makes it easy to have multiple TeX systems installed. The current luatex version (from http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/luatex) is 0.29. -- George N. White III Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia

On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 9:49 PM, Marcin Borkowski wrote:

Hi all,

I've just downloaded and installed the long-expected TeXlive 2008:). My question is: is it's ConTeXt up-to-date?

No, but you can update it yourself.

What about ConTeXt upgrades? (TeXlive 2008 can upgrade it's packages automatically; does anyone know how long will it take for new ConTeXt versions to propagate to TeXlive?)

I have promissed not to spend too much time for TeX, but there might appear dedicated updates. Until then you can set rsync updates to the existing or local tree. Mojca