From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/26329 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Font question mfonts.pdf manual Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 20:48:27 +0100 Message-ID: <4415CC8B.5050100@wxs.nl> References: <4415AFD3.4040500@cs.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1142279677 8333 80.91.229.2 (13 Mar 2006 19:54:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 19:54:37 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Mon Mar 13 20:54:21 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org 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 1FIt5V-0001Ka-95 for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Mon, 13 Mar 2006 20:52:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0A38127D5; Mon, 13 Mar 2006 20:51:42 +0100 (CET) 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 15321-09; Mon, 13 Mar 2006 20:51:23 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 944FB127D1; Mon, 13 Mar 2006 20:51:22 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91592127D1 for ; Mon, 13 Mar 2006 20:51:20 +0100 (CET) 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 15677-02 for ; Mon, 13 Mar 2006 20:51:02 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from mail.pragma-ade.net (dsl-212-84-128-085.solcon.nl [212.84.128.85]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id BE495127D0 for ; Mon, 13 Mar 2006 20:50:06 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.102] (unverified [10.100.1.102]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.5b3) with ESMTP id 8588 for ; Mon, 13 Mar 2006 22:48:19 +0300 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <4415AFD3.4040500@cs.com> X-Server: High Performance Mail Server - http://surgemail.com r=-274017400 X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-1 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.7 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: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:26329 Archived-At: WN wrote: > Hi, > > I am reading the mfonts.pdf manual to understand more about Context font > mechanism. > In section 10 Math collection, Hans writes > > "Math is a complicated matter and therefore we will not spend that many > words on the gory details .. > ..... > More information can be found in the documentation of the math module" > > First question is : Why do you not spend more words on this subject ? > setting up math fonts is normally not something that a user does: there is a limited amount of math fonts and they are normally supported out-of-the-box > I suppose a lot of Latex users are possibly interested > in using Context for their math typesetting but not knowing all the gory > details, > will complicate matters and hinder a possible conversion from Latex to > Context. > it depends on how many users want to define math symbols, make math font metrics (no fun) etc in most cases there should beno problem to go from latex to context because symbolic names are used for math symbols and resolving them is a low level (hidden) activity. > Second question is : where can I find the documentation of the math > module ? Is it in PDF or do I > need to consult math-ini.tex ? > wiki taco and i will make a manual for math (the built in features) some day soon - we will use a special font for that which is work in progress > 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------