CTAN package update: ConTeXt

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Thu May 11 16:46:34 CEST 2006


The ConTeXt package has been updated on tug.ctan.org and should soon
make its way to your favorite mirror.

Thanks,
Jim Hefferon
St Michael's College

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The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: ConTeXt
Author's name: Taco Hoekwater
Location on CTAN: /macros/context/current
Summary description: ConTeXt 2006.05.11 released
License type: gpl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
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I am pleased to announce that the new ConTeXt release from Hans Hagen
can be downloaded as of now from the Pragma ADE website or one of its
mirrors, as well as a CTAN node near you.

The current release has version 2006.05.11

A very short list of changes is given below. As usual, there is an
html page with more detailed release notes available on the Wiki, see:

  http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Release_Notes

Most important New features (since April, 24):
* Integrated support for XeTeX on Linux
* The Ruby scripts are now preferred over the perl ones
* The included pattern files now use UTF-8 encoding
* Automatic handling of UTF-8 Byte Order Marks
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