From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/59279 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Script to automatically generate typescripts Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2010 10:37:30 +0200 Message-ID: <4C08BB4A.3060408@wxs.nl> References: <4C07DD9B.7090508@uni-ulm.de> 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 1275640674 23025 80.91.229.12 (4 Jun 2010 08:37:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2010 08:37:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Mojca Miklavec To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Fri Jun 04 10:37:52 2010 connect(): No such file or directory 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 1OKSPY-0006rI-0q for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Jun 2010 10:37:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99C79C9C88; Fri, 4 Jun 2010 10:37:50 +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 oztjGdM9qJCa; Fri, 4 Jun 2010 10:37:45 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC38FC9C5C; Fri, 4 Jun 2010 10:37:44 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CE10C9C5C for ; Fri, 4 Jun 2010 10:37:44 +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 RwA+5-9TqH5F for ; Fri, 4 Jun 2010 10:37:41 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from smtp.ziggozakelijk.nl (sc-162.r-213-125-29.schoolconnect.nu [213.125.29.162]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7014C9AF9 for ; Fri, 4 Jun 2010 10:37:41 +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 4.3e) with ESMTP id 174-1713362 for multiple; Fri, 04 Jun 2010 10:37:33 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; 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:59279 Archived-At: On 4-6-2010 10:03, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 09:32, luigi scarso wrote: >> >> 2) why python ? We have lua in luatex; mkiv has a lot of lua code about fonts. > > Hmmm ... the guy who spent most of his time in community trying to > make python work with ConTeXt is now complaining about the programming > language? Come on ... :) > > Whenever I write something I use the language I master most (even if > it's not the most suitable language for that task), so I guess that > must be the reason. But if the script proves to be useful, it's still > short enough that anyone could convert it to Lua to get rid of > dependencies on yet another language. indeed; th ecore programs with context are on lua as it makes us independent of other installed programs but additional tools can be in any language (perl, ruby, python etc) in that sense i think that Michael's script is for otf what texfont.rb is/was for type 1 so it's a nice addition i'm not sure if a binary is needed as most users can simply install python Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________