On 4 Sep 2007, at 23:00, Arthur Reutenauer wrote:
  Fonts have always been a complicated subject indeed, but there's no
reason why they should be a mystery.

Of course, but I have to say that I wasn't able to find an introductory document explaining the whole stuff from the beginning.

  What exactly do you find horrible there?
Nothing of course :) I was joking. But as the first page of the wiki is the starting point for many beginner, well, I would say that the second paragraph is misplaced. 
Starting from its title it seems to suggest that mark IV is what you need in order to run ConTeXt, so go and download it. I think that the paragraph could be placed 
in http://wiki.contextgarden.net/What_is_ConTeXt, when one has already understood what is pdfTeX. 


[thanks for all the infos]

  Judging by your questions and what you say you intend to do, I don't
think you would really benefit from Mark IV. Staying with Mark II is
fine, but actually, if your main concern is about fonts, I suggest you
have a look at XeTeX; look at the wiki for instructions and examples.
ConTeXt with XeTeX is known as Mark III, although the name is much less
used.


Thanks. It is exactly what I have started doing (with success until now at least). You're right, I think I can go with XeTeX.

Many thanks 

Best

-a-

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Andrea Valle
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CIRMA - DAMS
Universitą degli Studi di Torino
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I did this interview where I just mentioned that I read Foucault. Who doesn't in university, right? I was in this strip club giving this guy a lap dance and all he wanted to do was to discuss Foucault with me. Well, I can stand naked and do my little dance, or I can discuss Foucault, but not at the same time; too much information.
(Annabel Chong)



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Andrea Valle
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CIRMA - DAMS
Universitą degli Studi di Torino
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I did this interview where I just mentioned that I read Foucault. Who doesn't in university, right? I was in this strip club giving this guy a lap dance and all he wanted to do was to discuss Foucault with me. Well, I can stand naked and do my little dance, or I can discuss Foucault, but not at the same time; too much information.
(Annabel Chong)