Re: pdf bizareness...

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Alan Stone wrote:
> Ok Hans. Thanks for taking it into consideration. Take your time do to
> whatever you intended to do first. It'll be worthwhile waiting for
> sure.
> 
> The more I dig into ConTeXt the more I like it ( compared to LaTeX ) -
> although the font handling is quite a tough nut to crack. XeTeX makes
> it a bit more comprehensible, though I don't have a clue what I'm
> doing. I just try different things and keep what works.

the context fonts system is geared to 'users combining fonts of 
different nature' and 'multiple such sets in parallel in one document'
which is what happens a lot over here

in principle font support can be made very simple:

- add 500 extra files that we call a style
- define a combination of fonts in such a file
- expect users to know what file to load to get what they want

(my guess is that latex is doing that)

however, the downside would be ...

- many, many useless files
- inconsistent combinations (you really need to scale relatively)
- still an additional system to defining your own

it's a bit the same with setting up a page .. it takes one command 
(setuplayout) and putting that in a style would add a file and 
eventually users would use that same comman dto modify their page anyway

Hans



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