From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/43823 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Mojca Miklavec" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: sometxt in mkiv Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 17:13:05 +0200 Message-ID: <6faad9f00809090813k1435acb8v82096304c9d747cc@mail.gmail.com> References: <6faad9f00809071242n452c61c2l95e1f1949e244696@mail.gmail.com> <412BE50D-3652-4602-A678-BE1D873B3813@uni-bonn.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" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1220973622 9329 80.91.229.12 (9 Sep 2008 15:20:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 15:20:22 +0000 (UTC) To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Tue Sep 09 17:21:17 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 1Kd4xH-0001xT-VF for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Sep 2008 17:16:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30DA81FE48; Tue, 9 Sep 2008 17:15:34 +0200 (CEST) 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 08641-02-11; Tue, 9 Sep 2008 17:14:49 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA6CB1FE49; Tue, 9 Sep 2008 17:14:37 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83C291FE49 for ; Tue, 9 Sep 2008 17:14:36 +0200 (CEST) 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 08597-04-11 for ; Tue, 9 Sep 2008 17:13:51 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail-gx0-f16.google.com (mail-gx0-f16.google.com [209.85.217.16]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E225F1FDDA for ; Tue, 9 Sep 2008 17:13:06 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by gxk9 with SMTP id 9so3818663gxk.2 for ; Tue, 09 Sep 2008 08:13:06 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.150.50.1 with SMTP id x1mr4504593ybx.236.1220973185967; Tue, 09 Sep 2008 08:13:05 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.151.83.13 with HTTP; Tue, 9 Sep 2008 08:13:05 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <412BE50D-3652-4602-A678-BE1D873B3813@uni-bonn.de> 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:43823 Archived-At: On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 9:22 AM, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: > > Mojca, Aditya, > > thanks for your responses. I was aware that you can use textext > (that's what I do right now), but was under the impression that > sometxt was the way to go (faster and more flexible). Now I'm > confused :-) In mkii (XeTeX included) \sometxt is still the way to go. textext("...") is way too slow and painful to use if you want to use anything but simple LM texts. In mkiv, textext("...") is efficient enough, so in theory it doesn't matter what you use (\sometxt becomes just a synonym for textext("...")), but I didn't test it extensively. > I was asking because I was working on my presentation > module. One of the metapost graphics for picture inclusion seems to > give problems when run under XeTeX, so I was wondering if I could > replace it with the clever sometxt mechanism Mojca mentions in her > MyWay. But then I saw that this doesn't work in mkiv... I find XeTeX > very hard to support in my module. I don't use it myself, I find fonts > deeply baffling (I still got the darned "mktextfm lmtypewriter- > blablabla" message a zillion times, and there is no way to stop a > XeTeX run; Apart from noisy messages: did it also fail or was it just annoying? Mojca ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________