Re: Bug#394594: texlive-context: Context is approx 45 versions out of date
Hi Mike!
On Mon, 23 Okt 2006, Mike Bird wrote:
> When texexec runs the comments on stdout/stderr are very different
> from previous versions. New texexec version?
Yes, now all scripts use ruby, this is the way upstream is going.
> "texexec hello" created hello.pdf instead of hello.dvi, a change
> from -0.1. Had to use "texexec --dvi hello" to force DVI output.
Yes, this is the default behaviour AFAIS.
> Problem of wrong font (Vera Sans instead of Type 1) is fixed.
Good.
> Warning about using texmfstart has gone.
Because we use texmfstart now.
> Always get the following warning. Maybe package should configure
> cont-sys.tex?
> User file 'cont-sys.tex' not found, 'cont-sys.rme' has been used instead.
> I suspect this cont-sys.tex is what was known as cont-sys.ini in earlier
> versions of ConTeXt.
Maybe I will make a copy of cont-sys.rme in /etc/texmf/tex/context/
> One minor annoyance is that there may be a missing newline when dumping
> font paths during texexec so one sees two or three screenfulls of this
> rather than individual lines which would be easier to read:
This is upstream problem, I will not care for this. And I think this is
the same in latex and all other formats, I guess we won't see a change
here.
> All in all, this is light-years ahead of any other version of ConTeXt I've
> tried.
Good, thanks a lot.
Best wishes
Norbert
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