From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/8632 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Johannes_H=FCsing?= Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Perl is evil, Smalltalk, Eiffel, Ruby, Python is the way to go! Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 22:44:39 +0200 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <20020710204438.GD1023@ruhrau.de> References: <5.1.0.14.1.20020708183035.02d2a048@server-1> <472897825.20020709233947@iol.it> <87znx0pmrt.fsf@gundla.ch> <200207091932.27153.john@wexfordpress.com> <20020710092846.6d2c055e.taco@elvenkind.com> Reply-To: johannes.huesing@ruhrau.de NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035399023 29192 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 18:50:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:50:23 +0000 (UTC) Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl In-Reply-To: <20020710092846.6d2c055e.taco@elvenkind.com> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:8632 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:8632 On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 09:28:46AM +0200, Taco Hoekwater wrote: > > I wholeheartedly agree with John. To put it another way: if someone > really wants texexec.py or texexec.rb, that person should write > (and maintain) the scripts. > One thing I am thinking about is tinkering with texfont. There is a somewhat rudimentary font installer which comes with the Debian GNU/Linux distribution called the Debian Font Manager. I would like to build a version of texfont that is in line with the architecture of this package, so new fonts that are installed within Debian (for X and PostScript) are automatically set up for ConTeXt. But then, time ... Johannes -- Johannes Hüsing There is something fascinating about science. One gets hannes@ruhrau.de such wholesale returns of conjecture from such a trifling investment of fact. Mark Twain