From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/20212 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Re: Mails of this mailing list Date: Thu, 05 May 2005 12:16:50 +0200 Message-ID: <4279F292.3090709@wxs.nl> References: <20050504232318.19510@mail.comp.lancs.ac.uk> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1115287946 26798 80.91.229.2 (5 May 2005 10:12:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 10:12:26 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu May 05 12:12:24 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DTdKn-0007HV-6r for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 May 2005 12:11:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 417E7127E2; Thu, 5 May 2005 12:18:36 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 08824-03; Thu, 5 May 2005 12:18:36 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50CEB127C3; Thu, 5 May 2005 12:16:43 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16F38127C3 for ; Thu, 5 May 2005 12:16:42 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 08791-02-4 for ; Thu, 5 May 2005 12:16:41 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mailrelay01.solcon.nl (maillb.solcon.nl [212.45.32.200]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4742E1276B for ; Thu, 5 May 2005 12:16:41 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from server-1.pragma-net.nl (dsl-212-84-128-085.solcon.nl [212.84.128.85]) by mailrelay01.solcon.nl (8.12.11/SQL-8.12.11-5/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j45AGcVe020338 for ; Thu, 5 May 2005 12:16:38 +0200 Original-Received: by server-1.pragma-net.nl (Postfix, from userid 65534) id D8AFB2449F; Thu, 5 May 2005 11:51:58 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.53] (unknown [10.100.1.53]) by server-1.pragma-net.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62C4A17B93 for ; Thu, 5 May 2005 09:51:57 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <20050504232318.19510@mail.comp.lancs.ac.uk> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.83/868/Wed May 4 18:35:19 2005 on mailrelay01 X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:20212 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:20212 Adam Lindsay wrote: > Patrick Gundlach said this at Wed, 4 May 2005 22:44:17 +0200: > > >>(not that it is of any practical use - it just feels good :-)) > > > I'm finding it very entertaining and somewhat informative. There are some > interesting gems in there: > > >>Personally I think users should not be bothered with font encodings at >>all. There is no harm in forcing things that (at least) we thing are best. > > (HH) > > I sure wish it could be true, but today it seems as difficult as ever! It may help if we make some choices and stick to the encodings that make most sense: texnansi, qx, t5, uc, (+the new one adam and i are discussing), a main greek and a main cyrillic one. Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------