From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/37772 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: showfont with xetex (syntax changed?) Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2007 21:32:05 +0100 Message-ID: <47585C45.3020705@wxs.nl> References: <91844FC2-0148-4347-A206-4B22915EBDE3@st.estfiles.de> <6faad9f00712060332s32be7922yf9b7e7788b4197f4@mail.gmail.com> <6faad9f00712060835l4604d133n6d902e72d1e0ee26@mail.gmail.com> <115224fb0712060945p4e4b73cdxe0994fe0606b6156@mail.gmail.com> <4758378A.3010206@wxs.nl> 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: ger.gmane.org 1196973271 11191 80.91.229.12 (6 Dec 2007 20:34:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 20:34:31 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Dec 06 21:34:40 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 1J0NQd-0006lc-7I for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Dec 2007 21:34:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A02B1FB99; Thu, 6 Dec 2007 21:33:36 +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 11379-01; Thu, 6 Dec 2007 21:33:07 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2543F1FB89; Thu, 6 Dec 2007 21:33:07 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B35D51FB8C for ; Thu, 6 Dec 2007 21:33:02 +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 07747-08-3 for ; Thu, 6 Dec 2007 21:32:48 +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 91E7C1FAB8 for ; Thu, 6 Dec 2007 21:32:48 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.103] (unverified [10.100.1.103]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.7b8) with ESMTP id 1573 for ; Thu, 06 Dec 2007 21:32:46 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031) 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:37772 Archived-At: Steffen Wolfrum wrote: > Am 06.12.2007 um 18:55 schrieb Hans Hagen: > >> something like that ... >> >> keep in mind that you don't need to define a font then, >> >> {\setfontfeature{smallcaps}Some Text} >> >> will automatically give you that featureset so in practice we can do >> with only a few real font definitions; mkiv keeps track of such >> dunamic >> features and efficiently caches data; >> >> we sped up luatex + mkiv some 30% and when using dynamic features with >> huge fonts (zapfino, arab, chinese) we can even gain more > > > wow!! gave us a good feeling too -) luatex will always be slower than pdftex, if only because it has wide fonts, multi-directional typesetting etc; to some extend this can be compensatd by using less fonts, but then, more features also has a price 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________