From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: OpenType in ConTeXt
Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2007 17:52:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46BDDB58.2050304@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200708111009.13364.john@wexfordpress.com>
John R. Culleton wrote:
> On Wednesday 08 August 2007, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
>> Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini wrote:
>>>>>> well, i still use texfont for type 1 fonts, but for open type
>>>>>> i use luatex anyway which can handle it directly (actually,
>>>>>> mkiv also usese afm files instead of tfm when available, so
>>>>>> texfont is not needed any more)
>>>>> How stable/reliable is LuaTeX for general use?
>>>> Well, "not at all" is the wisest answer I can give.
>>> Is it possible to run both (mkiv/LuaTeX and mkii/pdfTeX) in
>>> parallel?
>> Certainly. In the past year, I have been happy running all of these
>> at the same time:
>>
>> texexec | texexec --pdftex % engine=pdftex
>> texexec --aleph % engine=aleph
>> texexec --luatex % engine=luatex
>> texexec --xetex % engine=xetex
>
> Is there a phrase or a sentence that will describe the distinguishing
> characteristcs and/or status of each of these choices? Well, we know
> about the first one :<) I am bewildered by the rapid changes.
pdftex : traditional tex engine, extended with some functionality
aleph : wide font multidirectional tex engine with input parsing
xetex : unicode tex engine with open type support based on libs
luatex : unicode tex engine with embedded scripting machinery
luatex has pdftex and aleph as starting point and depends on lua code
for advanced font (etc) support
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Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <mailman.493.1186473146.2346.ntg-context@ntg.nl>
2007-08-07 20:18 ` Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
2007-08-07 20:50 ` Arthur Reutenauer
2007-08-08 6:49 ` Taco Hoekwater
2007-08-11 14:09 ` John R. Culleton
2007-08-11 15:52 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2007-08-07 20:18 ` Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
2007-08-11 21:06 ` Patrick Gundlach
[not found] <mailman.458.1186422999.2346.ntg-context@ntg.nl>
2007-08-06 23:24 ` Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
2007-08-07 7:52 ` Patrick Gundlach
2007-08-05 13:51 Pascal de Bruijn
2007-08-06 7:45 ` Patrick Gundlach
2007-08-06 17:20 ` Pascal de Bruijn
2007-08-06 17:54 ` Arthur Reutenauer
2007-08-06 20:01 ` Pascal de Bruijn
2007-08-06 20:07 ` Patrick Gundlach
2007-08-07 17:33 ` Pascal de Bruijn
2007-08-11 21:06 ` Patrick Gundlach
2007-08-06 20:10 ` Hans Hagen
2007-08-07 6:46 ` Pascal de Bruijn
2007-08-07 7:16 ` Taco Hoekwater
2007-08-07 17:02 ` Hans van der Meer
2007-08-07 17:09 ` luigi scarso
2007-08-07 19:14 ` Hans Hagen
2007-08-09 20:36 ` John R. Culleton
2007-08-10 15:45 ` Pascal de Bruijn
2007-08-09 13:09 ` Oliver Buerschaper
2007-08-09 14:26 ` Hans Hagen
2007-08-09 16:28 ` Hans van der Meer
2007-08-09 16:47 ` Taco Hoekwater
2007-08-09 17:17 ` Peter Münster
2007-08-07 9:36 ` Hans Hagen
2007-08-06 18:03 ` Patrick Gundlach
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