From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/42106 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Couple of questions Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:07:25 +0200 Message-ID: <486CF93D.9070508@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: ger.gmane.org 1215101332 29819 80.91.229.12 (3 Jul 2008 16:08:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 16:08:52 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Jul 03 18:09:37 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 1KERNJ-0002bd-0J for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:09:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 763231FE8B; Thu, 3 Jul 2008 18:08:43 +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 10087-02-10; Thu, 3 Jul 2008 18:08:05 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6991D1FDF8; Thu, 3 Jul 2008 18:08:05 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5A4D1FB29 for ; Thu, 3 Jul 2008 18:08:03 +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 09641-04-3 for ; Thu, 3 Jul 2008 18:07:29 +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 2C6BD1FE16 for ; Thu, 3 Jul 2008 18:07:29 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.100] (unverified [10.100.1.100]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.9e) with ESMTP id 17454-1840426 for ; Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:07:29 +0200 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Windows/20080421) In-Reply-To: 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:42106 Archived-At: abbg770@city.ac.uk wrote: > 1. CONTEXT, an excursion > general/manuals/mp-cb-en.pdfgeneral/manuals/ms-cb-en.pdf > > The Manual > general/manuals/cont-enp.pdfgeneral/manuals/cont-eni.pdf > > It's in the details > general/manuals/details.pdf > > > i) when are the manuals going to be updated? > ii) details.pdf looks very interesting, i assume it's not finished > right? any status info? later this year taco and i will have a go at it; some things are simpler nwo (esp fonts, since we have gyre and latin modern) > 2. CONTEXT MkII & MkIV > general/manuals/mk.pdf > > i've slightly confused as to what LuaTeX is, could someone please > explain it. from what i've gathered it seems like it supports the use of > OpenType fonts natively like XeTex and it's going to be merged into pdfTeX? luatex is the follow up on pdftex and eventually permits us to go way beyond what now can be done > 3. Fonts > general/manuals/mfonts.pdf and general/manuals/mtexfont.pdf > > Is is worth reading these manual since LuaTeX---as i've > understood---is going to support them natively and i'm never going to have > to install fonts again? less important now, also because we have the tex gyre fonts (unless you use commercial fonts in combination with pdftex) > 4. Typographic Programming > general/manuals/style.pdf > > Any idea when the final release of this document is due, i'd like > to make a print out. no time now, but at some point i'll pick up that thread > 5. Is there a book on ConTeXt, that is available for purchase from > somewhere like amazon. if not does anyone know of a good (and cheap) > printshop in London? I'd like to print out the manuals. no book (yet) > 6. I forgot to ask, is there anything written about bibliography support? > preferably through BibTeX. the m-bibtex module 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________