From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/35904 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: OpenType in ConTeXt Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2007 17:52:56 +0200 Message-ID: <46BDDB58.2050304@wxs.nl> References: <46B8EFA6.30775.217F112@wwl.musensturm.de> <46B9678C.2020807@elvenkind.com> <200708111009.13364.john@wexfordpress.com> 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 1186847603 13843 80.91.229.12 (11 Aug 2007 15:53:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2007 15:53:23 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sat Aug 11 17:53:21 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 1IJtH5-0003rr-Un for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Aug 2007 17:53:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C07420341; Sat, 11 Aug 2007 17:53:11 +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 13364-01-8; Sat, 11 Aug 2007 17:53:03 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D94BA2030F; Sat, 11 Aug 2007 17:53:03 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17C132030F for ; Sat, 11 Aug 2007 17:53:02 +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 13364-01-7 for ; Sat, 11 Aug 2007 17:53:00 +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 ESMTP id 96880202A1 for ; Sat, 11 Aug 2007 17:53:00 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.100] (unverified [10.100.1.100]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.7b8) with ESMTP id 9353 for ; Sat, 11 Aug 2007 17:53:00 +0200 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728) In-Reply-To: <200708111009.13364.john@wexfordpress.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: 2.1.9 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:35904 Archived-At: 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________