From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/30342 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: A few questions (mostly about fonts) Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 23:41:43 +0200 Message-ID: <44E39117.9050105@wxs.nl> References: <2e8813a0608161152h545cb0b6l1f61224337f0788f@mail.gmail.com> <6faad9f00608161308h7506f67bkb3cac7a651bac557@mail.gmail.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 1155764514 3799 80.91.229.2 (16 Aug 2006 21:41:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 21:41:54 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Wed Aug 16 23:41:53 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 1GDT95-00076o-ML for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Aug 2006 23:41:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F1E11FE99; Wed, 16 Aug 2006 23:41:51 +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 15338-05-3; Wed, 16 Aug 2006 23:41:45 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47C741FE95; Wed, 16 Aug 2006 23:41:45 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E863C1FE95 for ; Wed, 16 Aug 2006 23:41:43 +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 15338-05-2 for ; Wed, 16 Aug 2006 23:41:43 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail.pragma-ade.net (dsl-083-247-100-017.solcon.nl [83.247.100.17]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id F0AB31FE87 for ; Wed, 16 Aug 2006 23:41:42 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.104] (unverified [10.100.1.104]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.7b8) with ESMTP id 1419 for ; Wed, 16 Aug 2006 23:41:42 +0200 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (Windows/20060719) Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <6faad9f00608161308h7506f67bkb3cac7a651bac557@mail.gmail.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:30342 Archived-At: Mojca Miklavec wrote: > On 8/16/06, Jeff Smith wrote: > >> Hi! >> >> I'm fairly new to ConTeXt (which I greatly admire, by the way) and >> after reading a couple of provided manuals, I have some lingering >> questions. I thank anyone in advance for replying to any number of >> them. >> >> The fonts manual mentions how TeX is often qualified as 'the font >> mess'. Well, yeah, my head hurts right now... :-( Here are some >> font-related issues that are very important to me: >> don't forget that when tex came around much of this digital font was still unexplored also, any font related mechanism is complex as soon as math gets involved; if computer modern would not have had design sizes much would have been simplier as well; another factor is that most font subsystems were written when tex's hash was still small and font memory expensive ; of course the (sometimes global) character of font settings also plays havoc anyhow, tex users will always demand features beyond what is easy 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------