[NTG-context] Several questions about format generation

[Stefan Wachter]

Hi all,

in the diverse documentation about ConTeXt installation I find the 
instruction

"texexec --make ... --language ..."

for generating format files. Several questions arise:

1. What is the consequence of selecting specific languages after the 
--make option? Have the generated formats the same functionality, i.e. 
do they differ only in the user interface? In particular, do the 
different formats have the same hyphenation capabilities?

2. In the "How to install ConTeXt" manual I read that the "nl"-format is 
needed for some postprocessing features built in texexec. Is this still 
valid? The TeXLive distribution of 2004 contains only the cont-en.fmt file.

3. Is using the --language xy option equivalent to the using the 
\mainlanguage[xy] macro?

4. In case that several format files exist: which one is selected by 
texexec?

Thanks for your attention,
--Stefan