From: John Culleton <john@wexfordpress.com>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Cc: "Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد" <ishamid@colostate.edu>
Subject: Re: Intro to Luatex
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 17:08:43 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200909041708.43432.john@wexfordpress.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <op.uzf1431gfkrasx@your-b27fb1c401>
On Saturday 29 August 2009 18:01:41 Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس
سماوي حامد wrote:
> On Sat, 29 Aug 2009 15:35:33 -0600, John Culleton
<john@wexfordpress.com>
>
> wrote:
> > Luatex has a lot of features that Context doesn't. Where is
the best
> > place to start learning about it?
>
> Category mistake: luatex is an engine, like pdftex and xetex :-)
>
> luatex is one of three official engines that context can use:
>
> MkII: pdftex,xetex
> MkIV: luatex
>
> MkII is frozen afaik: MkIV is the main development branch.
Eventually MkIV
> will _be_ Context for all practical purposes.
>
> The most obvious thing MkIV gives you at the moment is
advanced control of
> OpenType fonts. For developers, lua provides advanced
scripting and
> extensibility. see also
>
> http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Mark_IV
> http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/mk.pdf
>
> Best wishes
> Idris
Simple question: using xetex style \font statements how do I get
curly quotes from
texexec --xtx book.tex?
Is the answer different for
texexec --lua book.tex?
--
John Culleton
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-04 21:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-29 21:35 John Culleton
2009-08-29 22:01 ` Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
2009-09-04 21:08 ` John Culleton [this message]
2009-09-05 9:32 ` Mojca Miklavec
2009-08-31 17:37 ` luigi scarso
2009-09-02 13:50 ` John Culleton
2009-09-02 14:27 ` Aditya Mahajan
2009-09-02 22:02 ` luigi scarso
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