From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/7262 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: ConTeXt under Omega Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 11:52:14 +0100 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20020313113942.038d79e0@server-1> References: <00a301c1ca08$b45b0e60$6401a8c0@lap> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035397738 17805 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 18:28:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:28:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "NTG-ConTeXt mailing list" Original-To: Idris Samawi Hamid In-Reply-To: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:7262 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:7262 At 06:26 PM 3/12/2002 -0700, Idris Samawi Hamid wrote: >Dear friends, > >After an exchange with Giuseppe Bilotta on CTT, I am interested in trying >out ConTeXt with Omega. How does one install the ConTeXt format under >Omega? I know that the ConTeXt is compiled >with pdf-e-TeX, and that ConTeXt has hooks into features specific to that >format. My situation is that I do a lot of multilingual typesetting under >Omega using features not available in pdf-e-TeX. I am >would like to test the claim of ConTeXt's improved typesetting >functionality over LaTeX in a multilingual context (mainly scholarly >Arabic). I've looked at the install manual and did a standard install of >ConTeXt as well, but it's not clear to me exactly how to proceed to >compile it under Omega 1.15. Has anyone tried ConTeXt-Omega before? Any >reports? > >Also: >1. While Omega itself will not support the pdfTeX and e-TeX extensions of >ConTeXt, will dvipdfm at least support some of the pdf-related stuff in >ConTeXt? texexec --make --alone --tex=omega en should do the job; i just tested this and found out that omega needs twice as much main mem so you may need to increse the values in texmf.cnf) Then a simple file \starttext does it work \stoptext with texexec --tex=omega thisfile should work Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- fall-back web server: www.pragma-ade.nl -------------------------------------------------------------------------