Hi Norbert, Norbert Preining wrote: > Hi Taco! > > On Die, 23 Jan 2007, Taco Hoekwater wrote: > >>Yes, just like the change to pdftex 1.40 in 2007.01.12 was absolute. > > I don't agree. I could process several medium complicated test cases I > have collected over the time with pdfetex 1.30.5 from TL2005 (debian > packages) with my context packages for 2007.01.12. > > The only point was that is was necessary to add the pdfetex -> pdftex > symlink, otherwise everything worked without problem. > > So I *don't see that this was an *absolute* move.
Of course you could add a set of font synonyms to cont-usr.tex or even create symlinks like from cmsy10.tfm to lmsy10.tfm. But you know that no 'ordinary' user will know what to do, and such hacks are probably a bad idea for such users anyway, because it will come back to haunt them next year or the year after. >>This is at least in part why TL will run 2007.01.12, and I will no >>update it any more, as well as why we have a fullblown repository >>of old releases. > > But doesn't TL2007 *inlcude* the lm-math fonts???? Please reconsider > this! At this point, I will not touch TL any more, except for urgent bugfixes. Staszek added the new latin modern at the very last moment, and I do not want to risk having a completely bodged system on TeXLive like we have had in some previous years. In fact, I still cannot quite believe that this release is going to work out ok. Perhaps Hans can be convinced to add a backward-compatibily switch for the normal context releases (>2007.01.23), but that is not upto me. Best wishes, Taco _______________________________________________ dev-context mailing list [email protected] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/dev-context
