Re: distro info

["Wolfgang Schuster" <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>]

On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Andrea Valle <valle@di.unito.it> wrote:
> Hmm, with Luatex I can use system fonts like in XeTeX. Am I right?

Yes but some fonts use AAT feayures rather than OpenType features
(take a look at the Arabic thread), so don't worry if you want to use fonts
for foreign languages like Arabic or CJK.

> Best
> -a-

Wolfgang

> On 10 Jun 2008, at 16:36, Andrea Valle wrote:
>
> Hi to all,
> I've briefly presented ConTeXt to the students of my course in Visual
> Identities.
> They were all enthusiastic. So they asked me if I can give an introductory
> but "real" seminar.
> At my lab the students are all on macosx 10.4/5.
> Now the probem:
> All my students comes from humanities, no computer science background at
> all. I cannot ask them to be aware of low level installation aspects.
> My ideal would be something like the standard ConTeXt I was working with an
> year ago. One installs MacTeX and can start working.
> Now, we need easy font switching. I'm actually using XeTeX. But it has been
> complicated to set it up. I don't think I can have my students dig into
> installations ("patch this" etc).
> Is there any chance to have luatex into the next MacTeX distro?
> Any ideas?
> Many thanks
> Best
>
> -a-
>
>
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> . F(blah) [food without salt] can be boring
> . F(noise, blah) can be really tasty
> "
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