[NTG-context] Newbie needs help getting started

[Hans Hagen]

On 5/4/2015 5:14 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote:

> But the weird thing is that "Fatal format file error; I'm stymied"
> error was common with pdfTeX. With ConTeXt MkIV the formats are
> usually regenerated automatically.

It's not that weird: pdftex etc have no check on the format so if for 
instance a new primitive an old format will crash the new tex. For that 
reason we added a compatibility version number to luatex (starting at 
asciisum("DEK") to test to luatex format loading that will quit when 
that number jumped .. we're now one version further down the line. So 
... a quit instead of a crash. So, if pdftex would add a primitive it 
doesn't give that message but either crashes or runs on with the wrong 
mem undump.

Hans

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