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