From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/39486 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Mojca Miklavec" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: minimals: I'm not guilty :) Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 02:25:57 +0100 Message-ID: <6faad9f00803121825t55bbbf16i3d44a9437fa2ffc7@mail.gmail.com> References: <6faad9f00803111935q6ce53c43ic38a33288fe5a20d@mail.gmail.com> <68bfdc900803112057t4f3a0849h8dea971e733f228c@mail.gmail.com> <6faad9f00803120616h6ddcda2ak9f59091dc0b367f8@mail.gmail.com> <68bfdc900803121752u3a60d41amf8ebae054e777008@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1205371646 22633 80.91.229.12 (13 Mar 2008 01:27:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 01:27:26 +0000 (UTC) To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Mar 13 02:27:53 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JZcEa-0002W0-Ni for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 02:27:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76CAC1FB74; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 02:27:11 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 10175-04-7; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 02:26:33 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D81D41FB71; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 02:26:32 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 848541FB6B for ; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 02:26:31 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 10175-04-6 for ; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 02:25:59 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from wf-out-1314.google.com (wf-out-1314.google.com [209.85.200.173]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 188411FB71 for ; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 02:25:58 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: by wf-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 23so3864776wfg.5 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 18:25:57 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.142.52.9 with SMTP id z9mr3957355wfz.201.1205371557847; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 18:25:57 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.143.173.8 with HTTP; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 18:25:57 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <68bfdc900803121752u3a60d41amf8ebae054e777008@mail.gmail.com> Content-Disposition: inline X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 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 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:39486 Archived-At: On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 1:52 AM, Yue Wang wrote: > Hi, Mojca. > > thanks for reply. > > > > There is no problem to make one, but the most important question: Who > > is going/willing to send me the binaries for the almost-latest XeTeX, > > metapost, LuaTeX and pdfTeX? If anyone is willing to take that over > > (send me binaries for the beginning) and to test it, I will add > > another architecture to the scripts. > > I can compile the x86 and amd64 binaries, but the bad news is I have no time :( > Let's see if native binaries are really need by people on the mailing list. Peter is writing some scripts to do everything for you, so you don't need so much time, but at least a computer with enough free space and a bit of patience between pressing a button and having the binaries submitted to the server. But if there is not enough interest and since I have no way to build for BSD ... let me know. > > > dvips ... might be supported, I don't know. > > > > Is dvipdfm needed? > > > dvipdfmx? Of course. pdftex cannot handle CID fonts well. it wont > embed ttc and otf fonts. Apart from that it generates bigger pdfs than > other drivers. > But now the dvipdfmx configure files are almost missing, and one > cannot just use dvipdfmx foobar.tex to generate foobar.pdf directly. > dvipdfmx have better support for Asian scripts, I think, and it is > needed before LuaTeX/MKIV is stable to do CJK language typesetting > (which we will keep waiting for a long, long, long time). OK, in that case no problem. I'm sorry, I have mixed up a few things. You may answer me privately about what is needed (and then be ready to test it - I have no Chineese documents, but maybe Arthur could help as well :). 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