From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/36266 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: luatex and typescripts/fonts Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 13:52:38 +0200 Message-ID: <46D55E06.40909@wxs.nl> References: 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 1188388417 5446 80.91.229.12 (29 Aug 2007 11:53:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 11:53:37 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Wed Aug 29 13:53:34 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 1IQM74-0008W0-BN for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Aug 2007 13:53:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E67CA2016E; Wed, 29 Aug 2007 13:53:30 +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 05876-01-3; Wed, 29 Aug 2007 13:53:20 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86A802015C; Wed, 29 Aug 2007 13:53:20 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 079F82015C for ; Wed, 29 Aug 2007 13:53:16 +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 05876-01-2 for ; Wed, 29 Aug 2007 13:53:10 +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 C65F71FEFB for ; Wed, 29 Aug 2007 13:53:10 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.100] (unverified [10.100.1.100]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.7b8) with ESMTP id 12042 for ; Wed, 29 Aug 2007 13:53:10 +0200 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728) In-Reply-To: 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:36266 Archived-At: 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________