From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/60131 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Aditya Mahajan Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Example ConTeXt document: PS output Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2010 18:07:09 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: References: Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1278799634 29669 80.91.229.12 (10 Jul 2010 22:07:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2010 22:07:14 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sun Jul 11 00:07:13 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OXiCX-0008C4-0q for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sun, 11 Jul 2010 00:07:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65803C9BB3; Sun, 11 Jul 2010 00:07:12 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id lZKYTbWjvpRQ; Sun, 11 Jul 2010 00:07:09 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD5E4C9BA5; Sun, 11 Jul 2010 00:07:09 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6259AC9BA5 for ; Sun, 11 Jul 2010 00:07:08 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id S692WMFrpGzP for ; Sun, 11 Jul 2010 00:07:05 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from hellskitchen.mr.itd.umich.edu (smtp.mail.umich.edu [141.211.14.82]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8684BC9B99 for ; Sun, 11 Jul 2010 00:07:05 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: FROM [192.168.2.8] (c-76-28-91-31.hsd1.ct.comcast.net [76.28.91.31]) By hellskitchen.mr.itd.umich.edu ID 4C38EF08.3E03.29676 ; Authuser adityam; 10 Jul 2010 18:07:04 EDT In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Alpine 2.01 (LNX 1266 2009-07-14) X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 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 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:60131 Archived-At: On Sat, 10 Jul 2010, Michael Talbot-Wilson 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 can try ConTeXt with XeTeX engine. Aditya ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________