Hello all, I am pleased to announce that the new ConTeXt release from Hans Hagen can be downloaded as of now from the Pragma ADE website or one of its mirrors. The current release has version 2006.06.09, and it is on the wiki as http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Context_2006.06.09 This is a relatively minor release, with some optimizations and a few bugfixes. More importantly, there is a new beta/latest, with support for the pdftex 1.40 releases (currently in beta). Happy TeXing, Taco
On Jun 13, 2006, at 3:20 PM, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
More importantly, there is a new beta/latest, with support for the pdftex 1.40 releases (currently in beta).
OK, since everybody else seems to know, I'm not afraid to confess I'm stupid: what are the new features in pdftex 1.40 that the new beta now supports? I've been running 1.40 beta for a couple of months now and would just be curious. Thomas
Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
OK, since everybody else seems to know, I'm not afraid to confess I'm stupid: what are the new features in pdftex 1.40 that the new beta now supports? I've been running 1.40 beta for a couple of months now and would just be curious.
The most important thing is that pdftex and pdfetex are now the same executable that calls itself 'pdftex'; this needs special support because some of the web2c variables and locations have changed. But that is strictly ConTeXt internal. To answer the rest of the question, here is some information from the NEWS file (Martin will give a talk at eurotex'06 about the new stuff). - 386 grow obj_tab and dest_names arrays dynamically - 416 new primitive pdflastlink - 427 Character positioning patch - 432 Rules in a PDF qQ group - 434 Remove queued map item handling - 438 \pdfsavepos in DVI mode - 443 512 zeros in Type1 fonts not copied anymore - 447 Don't write /Encoding for non-reencoded fonts - 453 Object Streams for PDF-1.5 - take PK resolution from "pk_dpi" parameter in texmf.cnf, if it has not been set by the format file or by the user - write out PDF statistics later to make them correct - has a large patch from Thanh - remove generated pdf in case of fatal error - .indent.pro for indent - many small fixes to remove warnings from -Wall - add some GCC extensions and use *nprintf instead of *printf where possible - fixed a unicode bug in ttf2afm - 466 \primitive and \ifprimitive - 467 \ifinedef - pdfTeX now sets /ModDate and /Trapped by default (the values can be overridden with /pdfinfo) - pdfTeX is now pdfeTeX, i.e. there is no way to make a binary without eTeX support. Also the sources of TeX, eTeX and pdfTeX have been merged into one file pdfetex.web - strip trailing zeros in fractions of reals written - 473 \ifabsnum and \ifabsdim - the manual has been updated a bit and is again included Cheers, Taco
Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
On Jun 13, 2006, at 3:20 PM, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
More importantly, there is a new beta/latest, with support for the pdftex 1.40 releases (currently in beta).
OK, since everybody else seems to know, I'm not afraid to confess I'm stupid: what are the new features in pdftex 1.40 that the new beta now supports? I've been running 1.40 beta for a couple of months now and would just be curious.
the policy is only to support the latest features when i know that the release is distributed; also, some features will be supported based on version checking in addition to taco's list ... object stream compression (smaller files) is a nice feature of the latest pdftex 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------
Hi Taco, Hans,
On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 07:20:26 -0600, Taco Hoekwater
Hello all,
I am pleased to announce that the new ConTeXt release from Hans Hagen can be downloaded as of now from the Pragma ADE website or one of its mirrors.
I'm subscribed to the Pragma RSS but did not get this announcement. Are these things in sync? Best Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/
Idris Samawi Hamid wrote:
Hello all,
I am pleased to announce that the new ConTeXt release from Hans Hagen can be downloaded as of now from the Pragma ADE website or one of its mirrors.
I'm subscribed to the Pragma RSS but did not get this announcement. Are these things in sync?
They are separate: the RSS reports that there is news at the pragma website and is generated by Hans, the announcements introduce new releases and are generated by me. Cheers,. taco
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