From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/30495 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Recapitulating Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 09:13:42 +0200 Message-ID: <44EEA326.3090509@wxs.nl> References: <3e73596b0608241301o6f6aad1dg37172461694b3231@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 1156490054 22982 80.91.229.2 (25 Aug 2006 07:14:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 07:14:14 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Fri Aug 25 09:14:10 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 1GGVtH-00013s-QJ for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Aug 2006 09:14:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FD671FEC6; Fri, 25 Aug 2006 09:14:07 +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 29661-07-3; Fri, 25 Aug 2006 09:13:59 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B19A41FEBA; Fri, 25 Aug 2006 09:13:58 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B4801FEBA for ; Fri, 25 Aug 2006 09:13:56 +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 29661-07-2 for ; Fri, 25 Aug 2006 09:13:49 +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 EA7AC1FCE4 for ; Fri, 25 Aug 2006 09:13:47 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.104] (unverified [10.100.1.104]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.7b8) with ESMTP id 2740 for ; Fri, 25 Aug 2006 09:13:46 +0200 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (Windows/20060719) Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <3e73596b0608241301o6f6aad1dg37172461694b3231@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:30495 Archived-At: Pepe Barbe wrote: > After jumping through hoops, with some help I managed to get XeTeX > running and using TTF fonts directly with pdfTeX. > > But before I go any further I would like to know what is your opinion > in using one or the other. When researching a bit on XeTeX I read > there were several caveates vs. using pdfTeX with LaTeX. > > Is this the same? In ConTeXt. What can I expect to work and what not? > If TTF can be used with pdfTeX (with some effort) what is the > advantage of using XeTeX with ConTeXt? > by the end of the year / begin next year, pdftex will support open type natively xetex uses libraries and hooks into platform font support; pdftex will stay independent of libraries and focus on extendibility and configurability (think of scripts that demand complex solutions and different ones as well, like arab); of course the question is if in the end it makes much difference for the average user concerning context and these two ... we may end up with a common core and different subsystems and levels of support; graphics for instance can be dealt with in a way hidden from the user, as can input encodings; fonts and font features may differ but i'll try to offer a kind of generic interface to for instance open type features since the definition and control of fonts will differ per engine of course it also depends on what i use (most) and what users demand -) 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------