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: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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