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[edit] Context 2008.08.05
New feature:
- mtx-fonts now supports displaying feature information for OTF fonts
Bugs fixed:
- a number of files were accidentally missing from the Context 2008.08.04 release
- Hyphenation patterns for bokmal and nynorsk were broken in Context 2008.08.04
- \Word now works ok in MKIV
[edit] Context 2008.08.04
New features:
- MKIV now works best with luatex 0.29.0
- Integrated support for 'arabic' languages and number conversions
- New hyphenation patterns from the tex-hyphen project, including support for the new languages Nynorsk (nn), Bulgarian (bg), Basque (eu), and Ukranian (il). The identifiers of Czech (cz -> cs), UK English (uk -> gb) and US English (en -> us) have changed.
- New third-party modules in cont-ext.zip: Account, Greek, and Letter
- new mtxrun scipts: grep, mptopdf, patterns
- New included module: calcmath (MKIV only)
- Typescripts for Herman Zapf's fonts in OTF format are now provided
- the mtxrun script 'context' is extended to be more like 'texexec'
- the mtxrun script 'convert' now supports a requested quality switch
- the mtxrun script 'server' is extended to support 'cgi' lua
Bugs fixed:
- Fix nasty font warnings in XeTeX
- Lots of small bugs. Please follow the link to the details page.
[edit] Context 2008.05.21
- MKIV now has support for running without any environment variables set (still experimental, details are discussed on the dev-context mailing list)
- Some of the internals of MathML support in MKIV have been reworked
- A few small bugfixes
[edit] Context 2008.05.13
This has:
- small bugfixes for 2008.05.09
- some corrections to the german interface messages
[edit] Context 2008.05.09
- A set of bugfixes relating to metapost labels in mkiv
- A rewritten MathML parser for mkiv
- Some math operator extensions for mkiv
- Other bugfixes
[edit] Context 2008.04.18
Small update to 2008.04.16:
- a few more bugfixes
- a bit of internal cleanup
[edit] Context 2008.04.16
Small update to 2008.04.15:
- mtxrun.lua now supports freebsd
- 2008.04.15 introduced a stray character in m-chemic removed
- the new MkIV font name resolver had an error
- a few more dummies for mplib in MkIV
- a fix for paragraph-shaped text in mplib (MkIV)
- a fix for disappearing colors in mplib (MkIV)
[edit] Context 2008.04.15
This release fixes a small set of bugs in MkIV:
- some mplib conversion errors (part of those need a new, to-be-released luatex) and a few dummy macros
- figures in subpaths were not found
- see the separate page for more details
And a few small extras for MkIV:
- zwn and zwnj support
- Environment variable MTX_FONTS_AUTOLOAD='yes' can be used to force automatic font database reloading on 'font not found' errors
- A parser that reads fontconfig's fonts.conf added (if it can be found)
- Better xml statistics reporting
As well as some internal changes:
- a bunch of counter implementations changed from macros to primitives. if you have styles that redefine core macros, they could be broken by this
- the experimental reserved object numbers patch from 2008.04.10 is reverted, didn't work out.
[edit] Context 2008.04.10
One big news item:
- MkIV now uses the embedded MPlib in the latest luatex release. No more external MP calls, resulting in a massive speedup (needs at least luatex 0.25.1)
Also a bunch of bugfixes from the mailing list, and some small speedups
[edit] Context 2008.03.24
Fixes some more bugs in 2008.03.10
[edit] Context 2008.03.11
Fixes a few bugs in 2008.03.10
[edit] Context 2008.03.10
This is a feature release. Main news:
- Image inclusion in mkiv now uses lua
- Better support for zips and zipped xml files
- And lots of bugfixes
[edit] Context 2008.01.28
- some small extensions to opentype support
- fix a glitch in luatools that broke format generation in the 'official' luatex beta
- brings locating of processed files in mkiv in line with mkii
[edit] Context 2008.01.26
- bugfixes in contextual lookups and kerning handling in opentype (mkiv)
- many macros that used \to for delimited arguments reimplemented without the need for \to
- new command \setupmathematics, for global math setup
[edit] Context 2008.01.16
- New feature compose=yes will add missing composed chars as virtual glyphs
\definefontfeature[superdefault][default][compose=yes]
- Some math bugfixes in mkiv
- A few corrections to font synonyms
[edit] Context 2008.01.11
This release fixes:
- handling of truetype disguised as opentype and vice versa
This release adds:
- a prelude to math definitions for mkiv
- a cache=no option for \setupfloats, i.e. direct flushing
- support for new lm naming scheme + fallback
