From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/27367 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jilani Khaldi Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: ConTeXt +Tioga Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 22:00:48 +0200 Message-ID: <444939F0.5070207@virgilio.it> References: <4448FF23.6000801@nibua-r.org> <444905A3.2060005@nibua-r.org> <44490C2E.6030407@wxs.nl> <44492499.5020006@virgilio.it> <44492E10.6080605@wxs.nl> 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 1145654579 14889 80.91.229.2 (21 Apr 2006 21:22:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 21:22:59 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Fri Apr 21 23:22:56 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 1FX35b-0003Lv-2C for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Apr 2006 23:22:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBBA01277B; Fri, 21 Apr 2006 23:22:54 +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 15666-02; Fri, 21 Apr 2006 23:22:53 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BEF7127B1; Fri, 21 Apr 2006 21:58:33 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4102C127B1 for ; Fri, 21 Apr 2006 21:58:32 +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 14262-02-4 for ; Fri, 21 Apr 2006 21:58:31 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from vsmtp21.tin.it (vsmtp21.tin.it [212.216.176.109]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id 4F26912793 for ; Fri, 21 Apr 2006 21:58:31 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.251] (82.51.114.129) by vsmtp21.tin.it (7.2.072.1) (authenticated as jilani.khaldi1@virgilio.it) id 44467BAD00228080; Fri, 21 Apr 2006 21:58:30 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users , paxton@kitp.ucsb.edu In-Reply-To: <44492E10.6080605@wxs.nl> 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:27367 Archived-At: >interesting (i assume that it produced pdf) > > Yes with the difference that while Metapost, Asympthote and GLE (http://glx.sourceforge.net/) use their own proprietary language to do PDF graphics, Tioga(*) uses Ruby, a full featrured and very nice language. I even see more presence in the future of Ruby in ConTeXt. Isn'it? jk (*) Tioga has been written by Bill Paxton, a computer scientist. -- Jilani KHALDI http://jkhaldi.oltrelinux.com