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→How does ConTeXt versioning work?
=== How does ConTeXt versioning work? ===
: Basically, to help you find your way around, there is 3 majors versions:
:* 1995: Context Mark II, using good old TeX (ε-TEX, pdfTEX, Aleph), stable and now in maintenance-only mode,
:* 2005: ConTeXt Mark IV, using LuaTex TeX engine,
:* 2019: ConTeXt LMTX, using LuaTex TeX engine, the lean and mean successor of LuaTeX (see [https://tug.org/TUGboat/tb40-1/tb124hagen-lmtx.pdf article]).
:There are 2 different development trees for ConTeXt, called Mark II and Mark IV (MkII, MkIV). They are always released together in a single package because they share a fair amount of code. MkII is stable and is in maintenance-only mode, MkIV is actively developed, including several enhanced features and completely new font handling.
:There are 3 different typesetting engines that work with ConTeXt: pdfTeX, XeTeX and LuaTeX. MkIV works only with LuaTeX, MkII with any one of the engines (pdfTeX is the default). Font setups (typescripts) differ per engine.
