From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: luatex and typescripts/fonts
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 13:52:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46D55E06.40909@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F2294387-62EF-4DFF-8057-4F59AE288015@uni-bonn.de>
Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I missed some of the excitement of the last two weeks because I was
> away. I tested the latest versions of ConTeXt and luatex and have
> some problems:
>
> 1. Is there a simple switch to between luatex and pdftex? If I want
> to write typescripts with the new name: syntax, I'd like to have the
> old typsecripts as well to remain compatible. So: is there something
> like a simple switch \ifluatex?
one option is to make two versions (name.mkii and name.mkiv) and then in
the name.tex file say \loadmarkfile{name} which will choose the right
variant then
> 2. I tested with a number of OpenType fonts from my Adobe Type
> Classics CD: ConTeXt Mkiv can address these fonts (which is
> wonderful), but it does not read the kerning information. I don't
> know whether this is because Adobe's kerning tables are so big
> (kerning appears to work with the TeXGyre fonts and Latin Modern) or
> because the Adobe fonts have these tables included in a somewhat
> different way.
depends on the way you define things ... maybe the kerning is language
dependent? kern is a feature
in base mode, we use tex's kerning and ligatures and can only have
simple replacement, in node mode, mkiv does everything itself
> Will be back with lots of more question re. Greek soon!
good
Hans
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-29 11:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-29 11:05 Thomas A. Schmitz
2007-08-29 11:28 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2007-08-29 11:52 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2007-08-29 14:07 ` Thomas A. Schmitz
2007-08-29 16:29 ` Hans Hagen
2007-08-29 17:21 ` Hans Hagen
2007-08-29 17:49 ` Thomas A. Schmitz
2007-08-29 18:51 ` Hans Hagen
2007-09-03 8:08 ` Wolfgang Schuster
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