On 4/1/2026 3:03 PM, Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context wrote:
On 4/1/26 10:24, Mikael Sundqvist wrote:
[…]
Backed by an undisclosed nine-figure war chest from a consortium of foundations
and anonymous high-net-worth individuals who believe that beautiful, accessible
mathematics should not be locked behind 1980s technology, we have built and now
deployed a fully automated, AI-powered conversion engine that turns any \TEX\ or
LaTeX document into clean, modern \CONTEXT\ with near-perfect fidelity. We've
watched in quiet awe as the same AI models researchers casually prompt for help
suddenly began producing \CONTEXT\ code that was cleaner, more semantic, and
dramatically more accessible than the original LaTeX. Package conflicts? Gone.
Ancient tikz hacks? Replaced with native \METAFUN. The results were so
compelling
that our secret backers immediately approved full-scale deployment.
Hi Mikael,
I see that this is related to Donald Knuth’s iTeX
(https://web.archive.org/web/20140828102256/http://river-valley.tv/media/conferences/tug-2010/Don-Knuth/).
those who were present there know it runs on his system but he
prioritizes finishing the books so we could catch up a little (which
reminds me to check if there's anything mentioned that we need to add to
luametatex)
To ensure the highest quality, we need peer reviews. We therefore kindly ask the
best ones we could come up with: you. Content is more important than formatting
(that of course is already perfect). Please apply by replying to this email.
The first sentence from previous paragraph is s the more entertaining
part of the whole project.
As mkxl was introduced @ April 1 a few years ago, and in the end proved
to be real, you can't be sure what we're up to ... there has always been
some truth hidden in what we post (which of course those really into
context filter out).
Hans
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