From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/84998 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Aditya Mahajan Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: ConTeXt standalone - in what situations is it better? Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 10:18:54 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: References: <52690ED2.40402@sil.org> <20131024101022.6c125cdd@localb.wexfordpress.net> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1382624346 28078 80.91.229.3 (24 Oct 2013 14:19:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 14:19:06 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Oct 24 16:19:11 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([5.39.185.229]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VZLkl-0001s4-FT for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Oct 2013 16:19:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFCD210231; Thu, 24 Oct 2013 16:19:10 +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 WaZpkaxHqFbW; Thu, 24 Oct 2013 16:19:05 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D87D10232; Thu, 24 Oct 2013 16:19:05 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A417410232 for ; Thu, 24 Oct 2013 16:19:03 +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 sT0n7d3BKBZY for ; Thu, 24 Oct 2013 16:18:59 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from filter4-ams.mf.surf.net (filter4-ams.mf.surf.net [192.87.102.72]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03AB610231 for ; Thu, 24 Oct 2013 16:18:58 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from hackers.mr.itd.umich.edu (smtp.mail.umich.edu [141.211.14.81]) by filter4-ams.mf.surf.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-9.4) with ESMTP id r9OEO6jD021564 for ; Thu, 24 Oct 2013 16:24:07 +0200 Original-Received: FROM Decentralized.ECE.McGill.CA (Decentralized.ECE.McGill.CA [132.206.69.142]) By hackers.mr.itd.umich.edu ID 52692C4F.757CD.32297 ; Authuser adityam; 24 Oct 2013 10:18:55 EDT In-Reply-To: <20131024101022.6c125cdd@localb.wexfordpress.net> User-Agent: Alpine 2.02 (LNX 1266 2009-07-14) X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=141.211.14.81; country=US; region=MI; city=Ann Arbor; postalcode=48109; latitude=42.2923; longitude=-83.7145; metrocode=505; areacode=734; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=42.2923,-83.7145&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 01KF2o7OX - 5e1b8fcd8843 - 20131024 (trained as not-spam) X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 192.87.102.72 X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:84998 Archived-At: > The problem with Standalone is that the full range of fonts found with > Texlive is not available. Standalone has 258 otf fonts and TexLive > has 508 otf fonts. So I am opting for TeXLive, although I have both. I use standalone in parallel with texlive (which I need for latex). In the Arch PKGBUILD that I maintain, I use: # If texlive exists, use fonts from texlive if [ -d $_texlivefontdir ] then mkdir -p $srcdir/tex/texmf-fonts if [ -L $srcdir/tex/texmf-fonts/fonts ] then rm $srcdir/tex/texmf-fonts/fonts fi ln -s $_texlivefontdir $srcdir/tex/texmf-fonts/fonts fi So, if TL is installed, the TL font directory is symlinked at an appropriate location and all the TL fonts are available with ConTeXt standalone as well. > Another dfficulty is that many of the examples for simplefonts > are apparently developed on a Windows system and I use Linux. Font > names are different. I haven't had any trouble with using simplefonts in Linux (but then, I rarely consult the wiki for usage examples). Could you point to specific examples. 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