From: John Culleton <john@wexfordpress.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Using Luatex.
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 12:21:41 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201106301221.41779.john@wexfordpress.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3FDBFC75-0422-4458-82B8-6B71758BD2A5@googlemail.com>
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On Wednesday, June 29, 2011 05:01:29 pm Wolfgang Schuster
wrote:
> Am 29.06.2011 um 22:50 schrieb John Culleton:
> > Been away for a while. Currently using luatex for
lightly formatted
> > documents. But I want to use Context for my next job
(lots of
> > formatting). How do I incorporate luatex and the fonts
found by luatex
> > in my Context file? And should I use MKII or MKIV?
>
> John, the question you should ask yourself is if ConTeXt
is the right tool
> for you.
>
> What i learnt from you past mails is that you always use
many macros from
> files which are written for plain TeX instead of
ConTeXt’s own mechanism.
> When you really want to use ConTeXt then use ConTeXt’s
commands to change
> the font, the layout and also to produce a index etc.
>
> Wolfgang
>
>
>
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Understood. I also found a chapter on fonts which I presume
will go in a manual yet to be written. In that chapter I
found a \definefont command which should allow me to
emulate my previous use of the \font commmand.
In my work I frequently adjust font sizes by tiny
increments to help fit text better on a specific page etc.
And customers sometimes want a specific decorative font at
a specific size. And the \font command is very direct. For
this reason in both LaTeX and Context I tend to revert to
the primitive.
The new task I have in front of me will have a complex
layout where the features of Context for lists within lists
etc. will be most useful. And there will be lots of small
illustrations. So I will do it in Context.
Thanks as always for the help from this list.
--
John Culleton
Able Indexers and Typesetters
Cover design, Indexing, Interior Layout
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-30 16:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-29 20:50 John Culleton
2011-06-29 21:01 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2011-06-30 16:21 ` John Culleton [this message]
2011-07-01 6:09 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2011-06-29 23:39 ` luigi scarso
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