From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/44386 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Mikael Persson" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Experience on writing a thesis with MKIV Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2008 21:06:44 +0200 Message-ID: References: <48DFCB97.2090702@wxs.nl> 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 1222628888 2081 80.91.229.12 (28 Sep 2008 19:08:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2008 19:08:08 +0000 (UTC) To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sun Sep 28 21:09:05 2008 connect(): Connection refused 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 1Kk1dh-00070r-OW for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sun, 28 Sep 2008 21:09:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57C7B1FE21; Sun, 28 Sep 2008 21:08:01 +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 07398-03; Sun, 28 Sep 2008 21:07:20 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E7B71FE33; Sun, 28 Sep 2008 21:07:20 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99EAD1FE33 for ; Sun, 28 Sep 2008 21:07:18 +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 07221-02-7 for ; Sun, 28 Sep 2008 21:06:45 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com (fg-out-1718.google.com [72.14.220.152]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35CAB1FDE0 for ; Sun, 28 Sep 2008 21:06:45 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id l26so2281070fgb.8 for ; Sun, 28 Sep 2008 12:06:45 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.180.227.2 with SMTP id z2mr1933162bkg.12.1222628804989; Sun, 28 Sep 2008 12:06:44 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.181.37.10 with HTTP; Sun, 28 Sep 2008 12:06:44 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <48DFCB97.2090702@wxs.nl> 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:44386 Archived-At: On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 8:23 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: > Mikael Persson wrote: > >> The thesis is available at > > maybe we should collect such links on a wiki page good idea >> http://www.math.chalmers.se/~mickep/mp-thesis-final.pdf >> >> and a short presentation of the third paper >> >> http://www.math.chalmers.se/~mickep/pres.pdf > >> Some comments: >> * At our university the thesis should be printed on the (not really >> standard) G5 paper. No problem in defining and using it with ConTeXt. > > just curious ... is it used more often or just at your universiy; it's > no problem to add an extra papersize definition I had no idea about this, so I had a look at wikipedia, which says "... G5 (169x239 mm) and E5 (155x220 mm) are popular in Sweden for printing dissertations [1], but the other formats have not turned out to be particularly useful in practice and they have not caught on internationally." This is taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_size Personally, I'm not sure I will ever come across it again, but if it doesn't slow down anything I see no reason not to have it there. >> * The bibliography uses Taco's module. I am happy of being able to >> have different bibliographies in one file. >> * As a mathematician I was a bit tired of the computer modern fonts (I >> really like them, but I see them to often), so I decided to go with >> the utopia/fourier fonts. This forced me to work with mkii, since I >> did not get these fonts to work with mkiv (This is still a problem, I >> am not sure how to go on with it for future documents). > > looks quite nice, i also like the font size Thanks. What about getting these fonts to work in mkiv? Must there be some change in the fonts? Some files in ConTeXt? (they were perfectly working in older mkii) >> * Typesetting math worked very smoothly. There is one place where I >> hade to add some negative vertical space (I could not reproduce this >> in a minimal file). >> * I'm very happy with the way MetaPost and ConTeXt work together. >> * The presentation is inspired by Thomas A. Schmitz' files at >> http://www.tug.org/pracjourn/2006-2/schmitz/ (thanks!) > > >> * The presentation uses Wolfram's Mathematica fonts which I find being >> very clear. > > looks nice indeed; are there open type variants of those? >>From my university installation of these fonts they are only available as type1 fonts (latest version of Mathematica). I found no .otf files in the Mathematica tree at all. Mikael ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________