Am 2010-07-08 um 20:54 schrieb Tom:
I get very confused by all the different versions.
You asked for the "best version", so we supposed you'd know several.
For starters, what is Tex
Live? Is it the full blown Context or is it something else? The TUG
site has
Tex Live 2009 which I assume is a stable version that is distributed
on DVDs
to TUG members. I get the impression that other Context "compilers"
for lack
of a better term exist and that Context Minimals is a stripped down
version
of a more powerful one. How far off track am I?
There are only 2 different versions of ConTeXt, called Mark II and
Mark IV (MkII, MkIV). They are always distributed together and still
share a lot of code.
MkII is stable, MkIV is the development version with several enhanced
features and a completely new font handling.
There are 3 different engines for TeX that work with ConTeXt: pdfTeX,
XeTeX and LuaTeX. MkIV works only with LuaTeX, MkII with any. Font
setups (typescripts) differ per engine.
There are several distributions of TeX that contain ConTeXt, the most
notable are TeX Live (jointly published by most TeX User Groups of the
world) and MikTeX (Windows only). If you don't need LaTeX, we suggest
our ConTeXt minimals distribution - at least for MkIV, because it's
always the most up-to-date one.
"Minimals" is in no way stripped down (even if it was meant to be a
"bare bones" ConTeXt distro), but contains even several tools and free
fonts.
Most distributions contain all engines.
MkII ist called by "texexec" (a Ruby script, i.e. you need Ruby
installed), MkIV ist called by "context" (a Lua script, directly
executed by LuaTeX).
Greetlings from Lake Constance!
Hraban
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