From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/52441 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John Culleton Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Context-minimal installation problem. Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:09:33 -0400 Organization: WexfordPress Message-ID: <200908181609.34021.john@wexfordpress.com> References: <200908181215.03276.john@wexfordpress.com> <200908181529.18214.john@wexfordpress.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: ger.gmane.org 1250625723 1968 80.91.229.12 (18 Aug 2009 20:02:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 20:02:03 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Tue Aug 18 22:01:56 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MdUsV-0000bB-Uy for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Aug 2009 22:01:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BD55C9AAA; Tue, 18 Aug 2009 22:01:54 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id TjltIZ9ab3YV; Tue, 18 Aug 2009 22:01:47 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8868CC9A70; Tue, 18 Aug 2009 22:01:47 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFBEDC9A70 for ; Tue, 18 Aug 2009 22:01:44 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id oBWSDpyOiChA for ; Tue, 18 Aug 2009 22:01:41 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from QMTA10.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net (qmta10.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net [76.96.62.17]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 624ECC9A68 for ; Tue, 18 Aug 2009 22:01:41 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from OMTA08.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.62.12]) by QMTA10.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id Vv511c0020Fqzac5Aw1gkG; Tue, 18 Aug 2009 20:01:40 +0000 Original-Received: from [192.168.1.105] ([68.50.233.152]) by OMTA08.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id Vw1g1c0083HwwZ83Uw1gDY; Tue, 18 Aug 2009 20:01:40 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 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 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:52441 Archived-At: On Tuesday 18 August 2009 03:30:36 pm Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > Am 18.08.2009 um 21:29 schrieb John Culleton: > > Also I find font handling easier in pdftex. Just a single > > statement is needed. > > Can you a bit more specific what do you mean with this sentence. > > Wolfgang > Well if I want bitstream charter roman at 11.2pts I can say \font\rm bchr8r at 11.2pt and I am done. Or I can define something called \fontsize and make it the referent for all my font statements: \newdimen\fontsize \fontsize=11.2pt \baselineskip= 1.1\fontsize \font\rm bchr8r at \fontsize \font\bo bchbo8t at 1.1\fontsize ...and so on. If I need the book a little longer I just change \fontsize. I have even done tricks like this: \fontfam=bch \font\rm \fontfam r8r at \fontsize Introducing a new font into TeX is never simple but I find it easier if I don't have to construct (and debug) an elaborate chain of font synonyms. It may be the luatex has made life simpler (or at least more exciting!) I will examine that prospect next. But right now I am typesetting novels, memoirs and the like. The fewer variables I have to contend with the better. YMMV of course. -- John Culleton Create Book Covers with Scribus/e-book $5.95 http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________