From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/35900 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "John R. Culleton" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: OpenType in ConTeXt Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2007 10:09:13 -0400 Organization: WexfordPress Message-ID: <200708111009.13364.john@wexfordpress.com> References: <46B8EFA6.30775.217F112@wwl.musensturm.de> <46B9678C.2020807@elvenkind.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1186841884 31182 80.91.229.12 (11 Aug 2007 14:18:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2007 14:18:04 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sat Aug 11 16:18:01 2007 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 1IJrmz-0001Po-RY for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Aug 2007 16:18:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB0B8202E8; Sat, 11 Aug 2007 16:18:00 +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 02915-02; Sat, 11 Aug 2007 16:17:52 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2617720268; Sat, 11 Aug 2007 16:17:52 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1C1120268 for ; Sat, 11 Aug 2007 16:17:50 +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 02011-03 for ; Sat, 11 Aug 2007 16:17:47 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from dpmailmta01.doteasy.com (dpmailmta01-39.doteasy.com [65.61.219.19]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED50B200A9 for ; Sat, 11 Aug 2007 16:17:46 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from wexfordpress.com (unverified [192.168.101.3]) by dpmailmta01.doteasy.com (DEO) with ESMTP id 141835415-1814644 for ; Sat, 11 Aug 2007 07:41:21 -0700 Original-Received: from c-76-21-133-203.hsd1.md.comcast.net [76.21.133.203] by wexfordpress.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-8.05) id A489C00C008C; Sat, 11 Aug 2007 07:15:37 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 In-Reply-To: <46B9678C.2020807@elvenkind.com> Content-Disposition: inline X-IMSTrailer: __IMail_7__ X-SpamDetect: ****: 4.100000 SpamUrl=4.1 X-SpamUrl: doteasy.com X-IP-stats: Incoming Last 0, First 367, in=10493330, out=0, spam=0 ip=192.168.101.3 X-Originating-IP: 192.168.101.3 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:35900 Archived-At: On Wednesday 08 August 2007, Taco Hoekwater wrote: > Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini wrote: > >>>> well, i still use texfont for type 1 fonts, but for open type > >>>> i use luatex anyway which can handle it directly (actually, > >>>> mkiv also usese afm files instead of tfm when available, so > >>>> texfont is not needed any more) > >>> > >>> How stable/reliable is LuaTeX for general use? > >> > >> Well, "not at all" is the wisest answer I can give. > > > > Is it possible to run both (mkiv/LuaTeX and mkii/pdfTeX) in > > parallel? > > Certainly. In the past year, I have been happy running all of these > at the same time: > > texexec | texexec --pdftex % engine=pdftex > texexec --aleph % engine=aleph > texexec --luatex % engine=luatex > texexec --xetex % engine=xetex Is there a phrase or a sentence that will describe the distinguishing characteristcs and/or status of each of these choices? Well, we know about the first one :<) I am bewildered by the rapid changes. -- John Culleton _________________________________________________________________ Need personalized email and website? Look no further. It's easy with Doteasy $0 Web Hosting! Learn more at www.doteasy.com ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________