From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/32888 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: XeTeX questions Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 00:17:01 +0100 Message-ID: <45B3F46D.7090807@wxs.nl> References: <6faad9f00701210851p3e626e4aya35a57ba438b1129@mail.gmail.com> <2C291B72-D705-4742-B9E8-CEAD37A9E3C3@uni-bonn.de> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1169421726 18159 80.91.229.12 (21 Jan 2007 23:22:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 23:22:06 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Mon Jan 22 00:22:04 2007 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 lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1H8m0d-0007GZ-MC for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Jan 2007 00:21:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20A42200C5; Mon, 22 Jan 2007 00:17:08 +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 05982-07; Mon, 22 Jan 2007 00:17:02 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AD592009F; Mon, 22 Jan 2007 00:12:23 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35F8A20099 for ; Mon, 22 Jan 2007 00:12:18 +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 05770-06-2 for ; Mon, 22 Jan 2007 00:12:07 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from mail.pragma-ade.net (dsl-083-247-100-017.solcon.nl [83.247.100.17]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A08D20074 for ; Mon, 22 Jan 2007 00:12:03 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.102] (unverified [10.100.1.102]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.7b8) with ESMTP id 4536 for ; Mon, 22 Jan 2007 00:16:54 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Windows/20061207) Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <2C291B72-D705-4742-B9E8-CEAD37A9E3C3@uni-bonn.de> 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:32888 Archived-At: Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: > > But since I know that you've done a lot of work on XeTeX in ConTeXt, > I'd really like to know: what exactly can XeTeX do that would make me > want to take a more thorough look at it? After a sometimes painful > learning curve, I find it nowadays relatively easy to make my > opentype fonts work in ConTeXt. I assume that once the integration of > opentype in luatex is finished, this will be even more > straightforward, giving us access to many opentype features. I'm just > wondering if it makes sense to spend more time here or if the XeTeX > project will be eaten by its own success, as it were, as most of what > it offers becomes integrated into lua/metatex. If you can spare two > minutes, I'd be very grateful to have your thoughts on this. > fonts is more than definitions; esp a the level of supporting features and runtime manipulating fonts, xetex and luatex will undoubtely differ; also, xetex uses external font libraries, while luatex does things internaly and under user/macro conytrol (with defaults); due to the nature of fonts, both systems will share characteristics ... the future will learn; from context's point of view ... we will provide a high level interface so users will probably not notice the gory details 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------