From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/20313 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: more on margin kerning Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 17:02:02 +0200 Message-ID: <4280CCEA.9000307@wxs.nl> References: <0MKwpI-1DVW3z2RYk-0007c2@mrelayeu.kundenserver.de> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1115738371 5935 80.91.229.2 (10 May 2005 15:19:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 15:19:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 'Idris Samawi Hamid' Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Tue May 10 17:19:28 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 1DVWW1-0006Ww-OE for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 May 2005 17:19:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03F5612847; Tue, 10 May 2005 17:26:48 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 22555-06-3; Tue, 10 May 2005 17:26:43 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 789B8127DC; Tue, 10 May 2005 17:26:43 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA4B3127DC for ; Tue, 10 May 2005 17:26:41 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 22555-06 for ; Tue, 10 May 2005 17:26:40 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mailrelay02.solcon.nl (maillb.solcon.nl [212.45.32.200]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECDBC127D4 for ; Tue, 10 May 2005 17:01:52 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from server-1.pragma-net.nl (dsl-212-84-128-085.solcon.nl [212.84.128.85]) by mailrelay02.solcon.nl (8.12.11/SQL-8.12.11-5/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j4AF1kBI011580; Tue, 10 May 2005 17:01:46 +0200 Original-Received: by server-1.pragma-net.nl (Postfix, from userid 65534) id A19EE245A5; Tue, 10 May 2005 16:36:12 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.53] (unknown [10.100.1.53]) by server-1.pragma-net.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8951117B97; Tue, 10 May 2005 14:36:11 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: ud@art-satz.de, mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <0MKwpI-1DVW3z2RYk-0007c2@mrelayeu.kundenserver.de> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.83, clamav-milter version 0.83 on mailrelay02 X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Virus-Scanned: 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-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on smtp.ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:20313 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:20313 Ulrich Dirr wrote: > very much about miktex myself. I was forced to switch because fptex isn't > developed any further by Fabrice. I'd preferred fptex because it was more > tetex like than miktex. Unfortunately I'm not a programmer and don't know > how to compile successfully pdftex on a windows system. But maybe you can > try to run a standalone version of pdftex on > http://pdftex.sarovar.org/djgpp/ (the latest sources of pdfTeX can be found > at http://pdftex.sarovar.org/src). I've attached a how-to by Thanh. When > you run this version it shows you a version number which should not confuse > you -- it's the same as 1.21a actually. originally tex live was built out of tetex, fptex and gwtex currently we see these three distribitions go their own way; gwtex is much more that tetex, i.e. it ships with more tex goodies and gerbens installer provides more tools as well asn an update path; fptex has become xemtex and is now an integrated environment; the gwtex binaries are mostly similar to the ones in tetex and can be used with any web2c tree, and the same is true for the binaries that ship with xemtex; there will be places to download the win binaries soon; miktex is a option for windows users as well (unless you want to share trees etc on multiple platforms) the djgpp version works ok too but is slower btw, fabrice's (fptex) tex binaries are optimized for running mp from within tex and provide a few goodies not found in other web2c variants (the new versions of texexec & texutil will no longer depend on ini files and such and will hopefully run smoothly with miktex as well as web2c variants) 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------