Re: ConTeXt formats

2000-09-21 Thread Hans Hagen
At 07:24 PM 9/20/00 -0300, George White wrote: On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Hans Hagen wrote: Appearances will suffer if you just do a straight replacement of lbr with cmr or pos. The problem is that the user doesn't get helpful feedback if they try to use lbr under the impression that it should

Re: ConTeXt formats

2000-09-20 Thread Ed L Cashin
George White [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ... It would be nice to see ConTeXt used by more people, but I am concerned that if it becomes as readily available as plain tex then people will assume that it has a similar license, and as a result, violate the license unintentionally. This implies

Re: ConTeXt formats

2000-09-20 Thread George White
On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Hans Hagen wrote: At 07:02 PM 9/19/00 -0300, George White wrote: Note: this thread started out as a discussion of whether the ConTeXt formats should be enabled by default in teTeX. Behind this is an underlying concern that many system administrators will only support

Re: ConTeXt formats

2000-09-20 Thread George White
Note: this thread started out as a discussion of whether the ConTeXt formats should be enabled by default in teTeX. Behind this is an underlying concern that many system administrators will only support the default, so if a user wants ConTeXt they will have to create their own texmf directory

Re: ConTeXt formats

2000-09-18 Thread George White
On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Thomas Esser wrote: Is there a reason why the context formats are commented out in the fmtutil.cnf file? I'm sure that uncommenting it in the tetex Yes. I restrict teTeX to the formats which I consider "basic". These are plain and latex. I might change my view with

Re: ConTeXt formats

2000-09-18 Thread Ed L Cashin
George White [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ... There are some restrictions in the ConTeXt license, so it is probably better to require that someone (presumably one who has read the documentation!) has to explicitly enable ConTeXt. You may want to check that. I don't think that is why the