Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> Note that also three really important fixes have been added to XeTeX
> recently, so ConTeXt works much better with XeTeX 0.997.
the bottom line is, that we need to make sure that we hav ethe most
recent bins for all platforms before we can generate minimals
> It's the ConTeXt distribution, not the binaries which are broken.
i'm a bit puzzled ... for pdftex, nothing changed, for luatex, indeed
bins and zips need to be in sync (esp because there have been changes in
the lua font code that needed adaptions in the mkiv code) and xetex ...
well, that's an interplay between engine and macros and trying to adapt
i think that luatex and xetex are fast moving targets so in most cases
one needs to have updates of them and macro packages in sync; xetexs
font syntax has changed over time, currently a feature was added to
intercept problems but this is only on the latest bins, font searching
is very engine dependent and also to some extend os dependent
(upper/lowercase) etc etc
anyhow, the dust will probably settle in a few weeks (new bins available
everywhere)
a tricky area is metapost ... since mp cannot handle open type we need
to bend the rules sometimes and do ugly workarounds but we're getting there
> But note that there are still some problems:
> - wrong font size in XeTeX
more a xetex problem
> - textext("...") in metapost doesn't work
will never work completely if one uses different fonts in xetex and
metapost in one document (well, it can work, but one had to make sure
that the map stuff is sorted out then)
> - most probably others, not yet discovered
we'll try to keep them hidden -)
Hans
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