Hmm, with Luatex I can use system fonts like in XeTeX. Am I right?

Best

-a-

On 10 Jun 2008, at 16:36, Andrea Valle wrote:

> Hi to all,
>
> I've briefly presented ConTeXt to the students of my course in  
> Visual Identities.
> They were all enthusiastic. So they asked me if I can give an  
> introductory but "real" seminar.
> At my lab the students are all on macosx 10.4/5.
> Now the probem:
>
> All my students comes from humanities, no computer science  
> background at all. I cannot ask them to be aware of low level  
> installation aspects.
> My ideal would be something like the standard ConTeXt I was working  
> with an year ago. One installs MacTeX and can start working.
> Now, we need easy font switching. I'm actually using XeTeX. But it  
> has been complicated to set it up. I don't think I can have my  
> students dig into installations ("patch this" etc).
> Is there any chance to have luatex into the next MacTeX distro?
> Any ideas?
>
> Many thanks
> Best
>
>
> -a-
>
>
>
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"
Think of it as seasoning
. noise [salt] is boring
. F(blah) [food without salt] can be boring
. F(noise, blah) can be really tasty
"
(Ken Perlin on noise)