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From: Pablo Rodriguez <oinos@gmx.es>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: texexec in ConTeXt Standalone does not work
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2016 21:06:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <428878d9-12da-d224-c924-8a109907c4dd@gmx.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAH939z8JurNMcCvDMsWrKUg0Rh1wKXT6fDhCTCdhiyfbqLSo9A@mail.gmail.com>

On 10/28/2016 08:35 PM, Asim ConTeXt wrote:
> Thank you.
> I want to use MkII because, as far as I know, MkII uses pdfTeX; which is
> stable. While MkIV uses LuaTeX; which is yet in development. Further,
> pdfTeX is better at microtypography.
> Am I correct at these two points? I would like to hear from you.

Hi Asim,

I’m only an average user. But I guess LuaTeX is pretty stable (version 1
was released recently).

I have no complain about LuaTeX microtypography. I mean, I use both font
expansion and character protrusion, and they work fine for me.

But I’m not a LaTeX user. If you took the data from
http://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/microtype/microtype.pdf#page=7,
please don’t forget that the LuaTeX version included in that table is old.

Maybe you find interesting this thread about microtypography in ConTeXt:
https://mailman.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2016/084990.html.

> I found that my system fonts are located at c:\windows\fonts, so I added
> this address in front of OSFONTDIR in texmf.cnf file. But it still is
> not working, although the previous warning message has now gone. ConTeXt
> now silently stops the processing and does not give any output file.

I’d rather use MkIV. But if you want to stick to MkII, consider the
following variants:

    OSFONTDIR = $SystemRoot/Fonts
    OSFONTDIR = c:/Windows/Fonts

I cannot remember, but I think using "\" is problematic with TeX (even
for path names).

Just in case it might help,


Pablo
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http://www.ousia.tk
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-10-28 19:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-27 21:02 Asim ConTeXt
2016-10-27 22:34 ` Mica Semrick
2016-10-28 18:35   ` Asim ConTeXt
2016-10-28 18:55     ` Jean-Pierre Delange
2016-10-28 19:06     ` Pablo Rodriguez [this message]
2016-10-28 22:11       ` Hans Hagen
2016-10-29  9:18         ` Asim ConTeXt
2016-10-29  9:50           ` Pablo Rodriguez
2016-10-29 19:36             ` Hans Hagen
2016-10-29 23:12               ` Asim ConTeXt
2016-10-27 21:17 Asim ConTeXt

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