From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/41536 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Wolfgang Schuster" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: distro info Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 17:29:03 +0200 Message-ID: <115224fb0806100829y5524ca52u6f031af3e612d94d@mail.gmail.com> References: <6FCB6854-BFD5-470F-8861-3E9C771D26CD@di.unito.it> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1213115705 5565 80.91.229.12 (10 Jun 2008 16:35:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:35:05 +0000 (UTC) To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Tue Jun 10 18:35:47 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1K66oq-0001DQ-3H for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 Jun 2008 18:35:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D13341FC83; Tue, 10 Jun 2008 18:34:46 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 13645-03; Tue, 10 Jun 2008 18:34:12 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 026031FC66; Tue, 10 Jun 2008 17:58:02 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 100371FC20 for ; Tue, 10 Jun 2008 17:57:59 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 09187-01-7 for ; Tue, 10 Jun 2008 17:57:20 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from yx-out-1718.google.com (yx-out-1718.google.com [74.125.44.157]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 835AB1FD38 for ; Tue, 10 Jun 2008 17:29:04 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by yx-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 34so321328yxf.74 for ; Tue, 10 Jun 2008 08:29:03 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.151.145.11 with SMTP id x11mr8636508ybn.125.1213111743447; Tue, 10 Jun 2008 08:29:03 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.151.113.9 with HTTP; Tue, 10 Jun 2008 08:29:03 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <6FCB6854-BFD5-470F-8861-3E9C771D26CD@di.unito.it> Content-Disposition: inline X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:41536 Archived-At: On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Andrea Valle 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 be= en > 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- > > > -------------------------------------------------- > Andrea Valle > -------------------------------------------------- > CIRMA - DAMS > Universit=E0 degli Studi di Torino > --> http://www.cirma.unito.it/andrea/ > --> http://www.myspace.com/andreavalle > --> andrea.valle@unito.it > -------------------------------------------------- > > " > Think of it as seasoning > . noise [salt] is boring > . F(blah) [food without salt] can be boring > . F(noise, blah) can be really tasty > " > (Ken Perlin on noise) > > > > > _________________________________________________________________________= __________ > If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to > the Wiki! > maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / > http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context > webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net > archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ > wiki : http://contextgarden.net > _________________________________________________________________________= __________ > > -------------------------------------------------- > Andrea Valle > -------------------------------------------------- > CIRMA - DAMS > Universit=E0 degli Studi di Torino > --> http://www.cirma.unito.it/andrea/ > --> http://www.myspace.com/andreavalle > --> andrea.valle@unito.it > -------------------------------------------------- > > " > Think of it as seasoning > . noise [salt] is boring > . F(blah) [food without salt] can be boring > . 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