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[edit] Context 2006.12.27

Bugfix:

  • Fix use of prime and underscore in math displays

[edit] Context 2006.12.20

Bugfix:

  • Another \quotation patch, should be ok now
  • A few redefined accents in unicode encoding
  • empty lines in pdf font resources are now ignored
  • Two-line TABLE tables had spacing problems
  • Make \placeformula $$ .. $$ work again

Feature:

  • xmltools has a new switch: --filter. That filters elements given using --element= from an XML file

[edit] Context 2006.12.17

Bugfix:

  • some of the regime files used the wrong internal name

Feature: 

\setupwhitespace[big]
\starttext
test \startitemize[joinedup]                \item test \item test \stopitemize test \par
test \startitemize[joinedup,nowhite]        \item test \item test \stopitemize test \par
test \startitemize[joinedup,nowhite,before] \item test \item test \stopitemize test \par
test \startitemize[joinedup,nowhite,after]  \item test \item test \stopitemize test \par
\stoptext


[edit] Context 2006.12.12

Bugfix:

  • line breaking around quotations
  • make some macros unexpandable

[edit] Context 2006.12.11

Hopefully, this release fixes some active punctuation issues.

[edit] Context 2006.12.07

Bugfixes:

  • The word following after an inline quotation did not break the line properly
  • Regime cleanup

New:

  • A set of colon-related math operators
  • Pictex is now included in the distribution
  • Linotype LinoLetter font support
  • Unexpandable active characters


[edit] Context 2006.11.29

New:

  • Four modules by Peter Münster added to cont-ext.zip
  • textools can now generate encoding files from afm files

[edit] Context 2006.11.27

Bugfixes:

  • Bugfix for itemize
  • Bugfix for active punctuation in MP images
  • textbar added to texnansi encoding
  • \XeTeXuseglyphmetrics added

New:

  • small mml extension (<times symbol='dot/>)

[edit] Context 2006.11.23

  • Fix for metafun/textext
  • Extended align support for \columns

[edit] Context 2006.11.22

  • Fixes for Korean, contributed by Dohyun Kim


[edit] Context 2006.11.21

A few small bugfixes:

  • always use mpost --progname=metafun
  • allow single-argument \definehead


[edit] Context 2006.11.20

New:

  • a new style, for the practical tex journal (by Aditya)
  • the style for the maps is updated (by Taco)

And a few small bugfixes

[edit] Context 2006.11.17

  • encoding and map files reorganized
  • \frac and friends are no longer expanded in \writes
  • improved support for TeX Gyre fonts

[edit] Context 2006.11.16

This was the first version that separates between a 'mark ii' and 'mark iv' version. Only the 'mark ii' version is in the zip, but as a result of the reorganization, the amount of changes according to 'diff' was enormous. I am not going to try to summarize all of that. Taco 11:56, 20 November 2006 (CET)

The number of new features is not that large, most noticeable collapsed registers and more caption placements (will be documented in details.tex/pdf). Of course bugs reported on the list have been resolved. Hans

[edit] Context 2006.08.08

New features:

  • The first release of the cow font
  • Support for strikethrough text using metapost
  • Macros can register temporary files that are automatically cleaned up
  • A few small math extensions:
    • matrix option style=\textstyle|\displaystyle so that each entry is in that style
    • matrix option location=low|lohi|high for the baseline placement of the matrix
    • Math macro \intertext added
  • Sorting of alphabetic commalists (\sortalphacommacommand) is now possible
  • Included metapost figures start out using black instead of the text color now, and \MPcolor{currentcolor} can be used for selecting the current text color outside figure
  • Page ranges in registers can optionally be compressed using \setupregister[compress=yes]
  • The bib module automatically runs bibtex now
  • SciTE on Windows now uses ComSpec instead of calling cmd.exe directly
  • a new system mode (*marking) is true when in the expansion of a marks text

Bugfixes:

  • A bugfix in defined (named) buffer handling
  • Some french messages fixed
  • Some fixes for character alignment errors in natural tables
  • In grid mode, \displaywidowpenalty and \brokenpenalty are now set to zero
  • Figure numbers in captions fixed (separator, stopper, suffix)
  • LucidaNewMath-Demi (bold) font fixed


[edit] Context 2006.08.04

New features:

  • \framed (and -text) now support an [indenting=] key
  • support for russian hyphenation
  • new version of the bib module
  • \[lL]commaaccent character definitions

Bugfixes:

  • column alignment in natural tables
  • image inclusion:
    • bounding box discovery using rli files fixed
    • fix for Aleph in global TRT documents
    • some still-needed definitions from former supp-pdf re-instated
  • disappearing subtextblocks
  • unicode table 002 fix
  • some identation problems removed

[edit] Context 2006.07.28

Another bugfix release that fixes a number of small problems

[edit] Context 2006.07.24

A bugfix release that fixes a number of small problems

[edit] Context 2006.07.14

Bug fix:

  • New version of the bib module that fixes a big bug in \cite[num]

[edit] Context 2006.07.13

New features:

  • The use \sometxt in MetaPost figures (instead of \textext) can remove the need for indirect texexec runs, resulting in a massive speed improvement for heavy documents.
  • The new script pdftools; this script will replace mptopdf and pdfcrop in due time
  • Table splitting is reimplemented and improved
  • Initial support for the new TeXGyre font families
  • New release of the bib module, with better support for interaction and per-chapter bibliographies
  • Some small extensions to \framed
  • The database module now supports ASCII (non-TeX) data files with CSV quoting
  • \setupformulae accepts a conversion parameter now
  • more built in math support (matrices etc)
  • A prerelease of the koeieletters font

Bugs fixed:

  • allow escaped percent signs in inline metapost labels
  • texexec --mpgraphic reinstated
  • bugfix in paperformat handling for the option file
  • Register sorting now handles TeX's special characters (better)
  • automatically chmod +x the unix stubs after ctxtools --update
  • fix a problem with combined numbers like 1.5 in right-to-left text
  • fixes to euler math support
  • fixes for active punctuation

[edit] Context 2006.06.09

Bug fixes:

  • Mostly minor changes in the Ruby scripts

[edit] Context 2006.06.07

This version of ConTeXt was uploaded on June 7, 2006.

New features:

  • A new module for R integration
  • switch to an improved, context-only mptopdf converter

Bugs fixed:

  • improvements to register/synonym sorting
  • bugfix in \processcommalist
  • message strings converted to utf-8


[edit] Context 2006.05.28

This version of ConTeXt was uploaded on May 28, 2006.

New features:

  • \startitemize[random]
  • better czech sorting

Bugs fixed:

  • duplicate stoppers after numbers
  • texexec --pages failure


[edit] Context 2006.05.23

This version of ConTeXt was uploaded on May 23, 2006.

New features:

  • enable new texutil sorting of czech

[edit] Context 2006.05.18

This version of ConTeXt was uploaded on May 18, 2006.

New features:

  • support for openmath typesetting (via conversion to MathML)
  • modules can have test sections

Bugs fixed:

  • text encodings in display math are now supported
  • ctxtools creates cleaner xml now

[edit] Context 2006.05.17

This version of ConTeXt was uploaded on May 17, 2006.

Bugs fixed:

  • cleanup of xetex backend handling

[edit] Context 2006.05.16

This version of ConTeXt was uploaded on May 16, 2006.

New features:

  • A truetype conversion of LMtypewriter10-Regular is added, for use in editors on Xfree systems
  • New conversions: 'month' (local name) and 'month:mnem' (local 3-letter abbreviation)

[edit] Context 2006.05.14

This version of ConTeXt was uploaded on May 14, 2006.

New features:

  • two new presentation styles are included

Bug fixes:

  • various file-related fixes in the ruby scripts
  • minor bugfixes

[edit] Context 2006.05.11

This version of ConTeXt was uploaded on May 11, 2006.

Bugfix:

  • don't attempt to be smart about kpathsea on Mac OS X.

[edit] Context 2006.05.10

This version of ConTeXt was uploaded on May 10, 2006.

New features:

  • support for 'list of formulas' 
\startbuffer
\placelist[formula][criterium=text] \blank[2*big]
\placenamedformula[one]{first}  \startformula a = 1 \stopformula \endgraf
\placeformula                   \startformula a = 2 \stopformula \endgraf
\placenamedformula     {second} \startformula a = 3 \stopformula \endgraf
\stopbuffer

Bugfixes:

  • fix german hyphenation
  • some xetex bugfixes and workarounds

[edit] Context 2006.05.08 Context 2006.05.08b

This version of ConTeXt was uploaded on May 8 and 9, 2006.

New features:

  • Support for XeTeX/Linux added
  • Syntax definition files for VIm added to the distribution
  • The switch to default ruby scripts, finally
  • (batch|shell) stubs are supplied for starting the tools through texmfstart
  • New keys: \setuphead[...][stopper=] and \setupcaptions[stopper=]
  • "Selectors" allow alternative information to be simultaneously available: 
   \defineselector[caption][max=2,n=2]
   \start
   \setupselector[caption][n=1]
   \placelist[figure][criterium=all]
   \stop
   \starttext
   \placefigure
     {\select{caption}{zapf}{\input zapf \relax}}{}
   \stoptext
  • auto-detection of Utf-8 BOM marks
  • pattern files are now supplied in Utf-8 encoding

Bugfixes:

  • \enableXML is now unexpandable
  • fix for disappearing footnotes in description terms
  • nicer formatting of generated metapost files
  • a number of others ...

[edit] Context 2006.04.27

This version of ConTeXt was uploaded on April 27, 2006.

New features:

  • 3 new modules included in cont-ext.zip:
    • t-construction-plan
    • t-degrade
    • t-french
  • a new module to help typesetting ascii (CSV) data
  • leftpage and rightpage floats
  • openmath XSL scripts added to the distribution

Bugfixes:

  • removed the debug-box around math alignments


[edit] Context 2006.04.22 Context 2006.04.23 Context 2006.04.24

This version of ConTeXt was uploaded on April 22 and 24, 2006.

New features:

  • Pretty typing of C code (nikolai weibull)
  • various small improvements to the ruby scripts
  • small natural table extensions
  • support the latin ligatures of unicode table FB.

Bugfixes:

  • two bugs in itemizations
  • some formula number placement
  • local and non-spacing footnotes
  • textbackground problem next to pagebreaks
  • and more ...

[edit] Context 2006.04.12

This version of ConTeXt was uploaded on April 12, 2006.

New features:

  • float combinations
  • \symbol{whatever} is now also allowed
  • The Context version is now given in the PDF Creator field
  • predefined TABLE rows and cell setups.

Bugfixes:

  • 8-bit hyphenation was broken in 2006.04.10
  • New bib module
  • Some other fixes

[edit] Context 2006.04.10

This version of ConTeXt was uploaded on April 11, 2006.

New features:

  • no more preloading of all regimes
  • support for a separate beta tree for ConTeXt testers

Bugfixes:

  • regime files have the correct names now
  • Some other fixes

[edit] Context 2006.04.07 Context 2006.04.06

This version of ConTeXt was uploaded on April 6 and Arpril 7, 2006. The second upload fixes an omission in the original upload.

New features:

  • The latest version of the bib module is included
  • Cont-ext.zip updated to the latest version of t-lettrine, now also contains f-urwgothic
  • support for ancient greek
  • a regime definition for windows codepage 1250
  • extended unicode vectors 032 and 033
  • improvements to register sorting together with newtexutil
  • textools now helps create module packages
  • colors can inherit from palette colors
  • support for buffer nesting
  • modules can now be loaded with arguments
  • new math environments: \startintertext and \startsubstack
  • linenumbering improved
  • marginfloat improvements
  • gravitation/levitation of floats

Bugfixes:

  • textext() now works together with newtexexec.
  • overlong metapost lines are automatically split now
  • formula referencing
  • active french punctuation
  • accents in metapost picture labels
  • spaces in urls
  • better subsentence handling
  • better roundtripping of 8bit characters


[edit] Context 2006.03.25

This version of ConTeXt was uploaded on March 25, 2006.

Features:

  • (still somewhat experimental) support for synchronised page streams
  • new sidebar implementation

Bugfixes:

  • another small fix in verbatim (caused by 2006.03.22)

[edit] Context 2006.03.24

This version of ConTeXt was uploaded on March 24, 2006.


[edit] Context 2006.03.23

This version of ConTeXt was uploaded on March 23, 2006.

Bugfixes:

  • small fix in verbatim (caused by 2006.03.22)

[edit] Context 2006.03.22

This version of ConTeXt was uploaded on March 22, 2006.

Bugfixes:

  • small fixes to the new mathml handler
  • some efficiency improvements to the verbatim macros

[edit] Context 2006.03.20

This version of ConTeXt was uploaded on March 20, 2006.

New features:

  • Thanks to changes in the ruby kpathsea library implementation, texmfstart-driven scripts should be a bit faster.
  • Sidefloats next to section titles are now possible
  • A few extra options for \startlinenumbering
  • New options for \useexternalfigure: xscale and yscale

Bugfixes:

  • A set of smaller and bigger bugs in the two-column routines
  • the mptopdf macros were broken outside of context proper (mptopdf, latex)
  • some smaller things

[edit] Context 2006.02.15

This version of ConTeXt was uploaded on February 15, 2006.

New features:

  • newtexexec has a new switch --keep, that uses .keep as extension for temporary files
  • texmfstart has a new switch --showenv, that dumps the runtime environment.
  • There is now some support for intelligent spaces after logos, use 
 \setupsorting[logo][next=\autoinsertnextspace]
  • Trailing empty lines in verbatims can be typeset using 
 \setupverbatim[empty=all]
  • demo code is added to many presentation styles

Interesting bugfixes:

  • \startitemize[start=2]
  • unintentionally numbered math displays
  • strechted-out math in short figure captions. This fix may change linebreaking in other center-ed paragraphs
  • wrong extra space after \quote and \quotation
  • \type{\iffalse} (and other if... tests)

[edit] Context 2006.02.03

This version of ConTeXt was uploaded on February 3, 2006.

New features:

  • if you use a recent pdftex, pdf documents now open in the 'correct' page fit mode in Acroread > 5.0.
  • With \setupdelimitedtext[quotation][method=font], you can use inherent kernings for quotation symbols in high-quality fonts

[edit] Context 2006.02.01 Context 2006.02.02 Context 2006.02.02b

This version of ConTeXt was last uploaded on February 2, 2006.

This release has very few actual changes, but features a cleanup of the zip files that are distributed:

New features:

  • newtexexec now defaults to Hans' ruby port of the kpathsea library instead of using the kpsewhich command

Bugfixes:

  • \eqalign fixed (yes, again)
  • fix for (page) floats in columnsets mode

[edit] Context 2006.01.31 Context 2006.01.28 Context 2006.01.27

This version of ConTeXt was last uploaded on January 31, 2006.

New and extended features:

  • editor support files for the french interface
  • support for xpdf instead of acroread in texexec (--autopdf --xpdf)
  • A whole set of new math commands: 
  \startformulas ... \stopformulas
  \definemathalignment
  \setupmathalignment
  \startmathalignment ... \stopmathalignment
  \startalign ... \stopalign 
  \definemathcases
  \setupmathcases
  \startmathcases ... \stopmatchcases
  \startcases ... \stopcases
  \definemathmatrix
  \setupmathmatrix
  \startmathmatrix ... \stopmathmatrix
  \startmatrix ... \stopmatrix
  \startbmatrix ... \stopbmatrix
  • A new parameter to control automatic struts in table mode


Bugfixes:

  • loads of bugfixes. The Jan 28 and Jan 31 are mostly bugfixes for Jan 27, though


[edit] Context 2006.01.16

This version of ConTeXt was uploaded on January 19, 2006.

New features:

  • Support for japanese
  • \setuphead now has two new parameters: deeptextcommand and deepnumbercommand (handy for low-level manipulation)
  • improved support for Iwona

Bugfixes

  • mptopdf now behaves correctly on cygwin
  • Some other (minor) stuff

[edit] Context 2006.01.12

This version of ConTeXt was uploaded on January 12, 2006.

New features:

  • ConTeXt now does a runtime vs. format version check. If they do not match, the run is aborted.
  • The ConTeXt version now includes a time stamp ("2006.01.12 10:38")

Bugfixes:

  • Corrected definitions for the vietnamese postscript fonts
  • Encoding fixes (mostly for EC encoding)
  • small changes to the gnuplot module

[edit] Context 2006.01.09

This version of ConTeXt was uploaded on January 9, 2006.

New features:

  • A completely new interface (cont-fr), based on french translations provided by Renaud Aubin. This can be generated using 
 texexec --make fr
  • A support module for GNUplot graphics: 
\usemodule[gnuplot]
\startGNUPLOTgraphic{sin}
  plot sin(x)
\stopGNUPLOTgraphic
\starttext
\useGNUPLOTgraphic[sin]
\stoptext
  • french and spanish punctuation discretionaries added (like |?|)
  • mptopdf now supports multiple arguments on the command line.
  • File synonym (== long names) support has been added to all the internal file loaders. This is in preparation of actual synonyms that will be added in a future release.
  • typefaces can now be inherited from other typescripts, using one of these command: 
\inherittypeface[palatino][rm][postscript]
\inherittypeface[palatino][rm][\fontclass]
\inherittypeface[palatino][rm] % == \fontclass
\inherittypeface[palatino] % == [rm,ss,tt,mm]

Bugfixes:

  • The predefined postscript font families should work out-of-the-box now (using psnfss metrics).
  • newtexexec has reverted back to the old names for the PDF postprocessing (--pdfXXXX) switches
  • Chinese labels and encoding fixes
  • A number of minor bugfixes (as discussed on the ml), see the full rundown for details
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