From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/42105 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: abbg770@city.ac.uk Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Couple of questions Date: 03 Jul 2008 16:58:38 +0100 Message-ID: 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 1215100830 27538 80.91.229.12 (3 Jul 2008 16:00:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 16:00:30 +0000 (UTC) To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Jul 03 18:01:15 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 1KEREx-0007T2-3o for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:00:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19F151FE83; Thu, 3 Jul 2008 18:00:04 +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 09779-01-4; Thu, 3 Jul 2008 17:59:21 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDB2C1FE75; Thu, 3 Jul 2008 17:59:20 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF1ED1FE75 for ; Thu, 3 Jul 2008 17:59:18 +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 10087-02-2 for ; Thu, 3 Jul 2008 17:58:41 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail178.messagelabs.com (mail178.messagelabs.com [85.158.139.19]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B20B1FB29 for ; Thu, 3 Jul 2008 17:58:41 +0200 (CEST) X-VirusChecked: Checked X-Env-Sender: abbg770@city.ac.uk X-Msg-Ref: server-7.tower-178.messagelabs.com!1215100721!13706084!1 X-StarScan-Version: 5.5.12.14.2; banners=-,-,- X-Originating-IP: [138.40.12.19] Original-Received: (qmail 31773 invoked from network); 3 Jul 2008 15:58:41 -0000 Original-Received: from marlborough.city.ac.uk (HELO marlborough) (138.40.12.19) by server-7.tower-178.messagelabs.com with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 3 Jul 2008 15:58:41 -0000 Original-Received: from ms3.city.ac.uk ([138.40.12.13] helo=ms3) by marlborough with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1KERCi-0000Kg-Ud for ntg-context@ntg.nl; Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:58:40 +0100 Original-Received: from ms2.city.ac.uk ([138.40.12.22]) by ms3 with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #5) id 1KERCi-0000YS-00 for ntg-context@ntg.nl; Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:58:40 +0100 Original-Received: from prayer by ms2.city.ac.uk with local (Exim 3.36 #8) id 1KERCh-0000V6-00 for ntg-context@ntg.nl; Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:58:39 +0100 X-Mailer: Prayer v1.0 X-Originating-IP: [87.194.191.26] 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:42105 Archived-At: Hi, Firstly this is my first post :) (and it's going to be long), i've been using context for about a week or two and it's wonderful i like particularly like the approach of having everything built into the core. Just for reference i'm running fedora 9 64bit with texlive and i'm also new to TeX meaning that i've never bothered to study LaTeX thoroughly (as i was mainly concerned about just getting my content straight) and redefining macros was highly annoying, but things have changed now. Anyhow enough ranting i've got a few questions to ask. 1. CONTEXT, an excursion general/manuals/mp-cb-en.pdfgeneral/manuals/ms-cb-en.pdf The Manual general/manuals/cont-enp.pdfgeneral/manuals/cont-eni.pdf It's in the details general/manuals/details.pdf i) when are the manuals going to be updated? ii) details.pdf looks very interesting, i assume it's not finished right? any status info? 2. CONTEXT MkII & MkIV general/manuals/mk.pdf i've slightly confused as to what LuaTeX is, could someone please explain it. from what i've gathered it seems like it supports the use of OpenType fonts natively like XeTex and it's going to be merged into pdfTeX? 3. Fonts general/manuals/mfonts.pdf and general/manuals/mtexfont.pdf Is is worth reading these manual since LuaTeX---as i've understood---is going to support them natively and i'm never going to have to install fonts again? 4. Typographic Programming general/manuals/style.pdf Any idea when the final release of this document is due, i'd like to make a print out. 5. Is there a book on ConTeXt, that is available for purchase from somewhere like amazon. if not does anyone know of a good (and cheap) printshop in London? I'd like to print out the manuals. 6. I forgot to ask, is there anything written about bibliography support? preferably through BibTeX. 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