From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/57665 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: The ConTeXt book Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2010 16:12:36 +0200 Message-ID: <4BB5FB54.9090704@wxs.nl> References: <20100401170822.GF29608@phare.normalesup.org> <20100402094904.GD24723@phare.normalesup.org> <4BB5C219.1010408@wxs.nl> <4BB5D7B5.4040101@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"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1270217568 11116 80.91.229.12 (2 Apr 2010 14:12:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2010 14:12:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: mailing list for ConTeXt users To: John Haltiwanger Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Fri Apr 02 16:12:44 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nxhc4-0006Mj-9R for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Apr 2010 16:12:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A43FAC9D2C; Fri, 2 Apr 2010 16:12:43 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id oXxrtnjmGu-I; Fri, 2 Apr 2010 16:12:41 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 056B9C9C04; Fri, 2 Apr 2010 16:12:41 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29D5DC9C04 for ; Fri, 2 Apr 2010 16:12:39 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id SC9o3QWbqIt7 for ; Fri, 2 Apr 2010 16:12:36 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail.solcon.nl (unknown [217.121.8.199]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D399DC9B87 for ; Fri, 2 Apr 2010 16:12:36 +0200 (CEST) X-Default-Received-SPF: pass (skip=loggedin (res=PASS)) x-ip-name=10.100.1.100; Original-Received: from [10.100.1.100] (unverified [10.100.1.100]) by controller-9 (SurgeMail 4.2d2) with ESMTP id 8785-1713362 for multiple; Fri, 02 Apr 2010 16:11:21 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 Lightning/1.0b1 Thunderbird/3.0.4 In-Reply-To: X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-9 X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 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 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:57665 Archived-At: On 2-4-2010 14:20, John Haltiwanger wrote: > On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: > >> well, i use mkiv exclusively so that might be a sign that it's not that bad; >> the main issue is to keep mkiv and luatex in sync > > Good to know :) > > I would much prefer mkiv as well, as luatex seems much easier to grok > than TeX. I have the luck to be entering typographical programming at > a new stage. To what degree can luatex be relied on to accomplish all > that TeX macros can? Does certain functionality still require TeX > code? the same and more, it's still tex but we can now extend using lua so we can go beyond what normal tex can do 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 : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________