From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/44401 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: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:26:13 +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 1222680495 25747 80.91.229.12 (29 Sep 2008 09:28:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 09:28:15 +0000 (UTC) To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Mon Sep 29 11:29:10 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 1KkF40-0004Cx-0T for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:29:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 945491FE89; Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:28:03 +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 15782-02-15; Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:27:05 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D16F41FC27; Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:27:04 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D7CA1FBC5 for ; Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:27:03 +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 16390-01-7 for ; Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:26:21 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from fk-out-0910.google.com (fk-out-0910.google.com [209.85.128.184]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 342141FC27 for ; Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:26:14 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by fk-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id 18so2078860fks.2 for ; Mon, 29 Sep 2008 02:26:14 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.180.244.19 with SMTP id r19mr2099423bkh.94.1222680373914; Mon, 29 Sep 2008 02:26:13 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.181.37.10 with HTTP; Mon, 29 Sep 2008 02:26:13 -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:44401 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 > >> 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 > >> * 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 > >> * 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? > By the way, the Mathematica fonts can be downloaded from (type1 and ttf) http://support.wolfram.com/mathematica/systems/windows/general/latestfonts.en.html I'm not sure if that is helpful for anyone, since there are no metric files or whatever (they go with the TeX tree that is shipped with Mathematica) 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________