From: luigi scarso <luigi.scarso@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Example ConTeXt document: PS output
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2010 05:37:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTimToJB_n5_5grQoRrRoTxUmz7cOMU-iPZdqOZ0G@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.1007101244260.625@calypso.view.net.au>
On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 5:32 AM, Michael Talbot-Wilson <mtw@view.net.au> wrote:
> On Sat, 10 Jul 2010, Michael Talbot-Wilson wrote:
>
>> Oh, yes. May have a look at MkII. But does it use LuaTeX? The
>> possibility of easy macros in Lua rather than difficult macros in TeX
>> would be one attraction of ConTeXt. Maybe Eplain LuaTeX is what I
>> need.
>
> Let me correct that. Confused ravings. I was really looking for (1)
> font management making it easier to install new and unusual fonts
> without delving up to my armpits in tfm, pk, whatever, (2) something
> with Metapost more integrated, allowing easy placement of vector
> graphics in the document and allowing them to be defined within the
> document text file.
>
> It seemed momentarily that ConTeXt might be one way, and since there
> was an old version called MkII and a new version called MkIV, that
> MkIV was a sane place to start.
You have dropped dvi and ps constrains, so without no doubt
context mkiv is the optimal choice.
--
luigi
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Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-09 15:46 Michael Talbot-Wilson
2010-07-09 16:06 ` luigi scarso
2010-07-09 18:49 ` Vedran Miletić
2010-07-10 2:46 ` Michael Talbot-Wilson
2010-07-10 3:30 ` luigi scarso
2010-07-10 3:32 ` Michael Talbot-Wilson
2010-07-10 3:37 ` luigi scarso [this message]
2010-07-10 5:46 ` Michael Talbot-Wilson
2010-07-10 6:42 ` Taco Hoekwater
2010-07-10 14:28 ` Martin Schröder
2010-07-10 22:07 ` Aditya Mahajan
2010-07-10 12:34 ` Peter Münster
2010-07-10 21:42 ` Mojca Miklavec
2010-07-10 22:21 ` Martin Schröder
2010-07-11 11:25 ` Vnpenguin
2010-07-11 16:43 ` Michael Talbot-Wilson
2010-07-11 17:28 ` Ivo Solnický
2010-07-11 17:39 ` luigi scarso
2010-07-11 20:37 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2010-07-11 20:53 ` Khaled Hosny
2010-07-11 21:25 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2010-07-12 8:58 ` Hans Hagen
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