[NTG-context] mark ii/iv

[Hans Hagen]

Jano Kula wrote:
>>> After reading the document I still miss the good term for this level of 
>>> versioning ("kind of version tag") to distiguish it from "usual" ConTeXt 
>>> versioning.
>>>
>>> Hans H., how do you want these versioning systems to be called?
>>>
>>> ? [date version] = ConTeXt  ver: 2006.10.27 15:16
>>> ? [mark version] = MK II
>>>   
>>>       
>> the mk versioning is only relevant for engines, i.e. mkiv will provide lua based implementations as well as in the future more functionality. 
>>
>> pdftex / xetex : mkii
>> luatex         : mkiv 
>>
>> in some sense, mkiv is a next generation context but downward compatible 
>>     
>
> thanks, made it clearer: not level of versioning, but axis of versioning.
>
> but still, how do we call it? mk version? and how we call the "usual" 
> version then? i want to avoid confusion when speaking about version. 
> guess which one ;)
>   
for the moment a new version means the usual: date related version
> there is already a command \markversion, but it doesn't seem to have 
> something in common with this versioning.
>   
no, mostly to do with auto mkii/iv suffix loading

Hans  

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