From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/41961 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: pdf bizareness... Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 14:14:27 +0200 Message-ID: <48662B23.8000301@wxs.nl> References: <326847810806270245r47a76b32s8239cbab15da3c9b@mail.gmail.com> <326847810806270722i7392e02rad46a3623afb469f@mail.gmail.com> <20080627153331.GA31755@khaled-laptop> <326847810806271022r60d255d7iccd31f843c3955a@mail.gmail.com> <326847810806271044o5e5b71c8na11a1c99f5a8e159@mail.gmail.com> <486554DC.7080507@wxs.nl> <326847810806280344iec579bej3aaad34b9ed6c751@mail.gmail.com> <486620A7.3070500@wxs.nl> <326847810806280507s44041d3bxf2bd1c8defa01394@mail.gmail.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: ger.gmane.org 1214657543 21088 80.91.229.12 (28 Jun 2008 12:52:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 12:52:23 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sat Jun 28 14:53:08 2008 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 1KCZvQ-0001CV-1U for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sat, 28 Jun 2008 14:53:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 220051FC39; Sat, 28 Jun 2008 14:52:16 +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 25964-01-5; Sat, 28 Jun 2008 14:51:33 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F12F1FD75; Sat, 28 Jun 2008 14:15:16 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E7A21FD75 for ; Sat, 28 Jun 2008 14:15:07 +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 19220-03-7 for ; Sat, 28 Jun 2008 14:14:30 +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 32A241FC98 for ; Sat, 28 Jun 2008 14:14:28 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.100] (unverified [10.100.1.100]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.9e) with ESMTP id 16023-1840426 for ; Sat, 28 Jun 2008 14:14:28 +0200 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Windows/20080421) In-Reply-To: <326847810806280507s44041d3bxf2bd1c8defa01394@mail.gmail.com> X-Originating-IP: 10.100.1.100 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:41961 Archived-At: 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________