* How to learn context?
@ 2009-10-21 15:09 Shiv Shankar Dayal
2009-10-25 22:01 ` luigi scarso
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From: Shiv Shankar Dayal @ 2009-10-21 15:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users
Hi,
I am a C++ programmer by profession. Typesetting is my hobby. I used
to use LaTeX and Groff with ms macro package. Then I found ConTeXt and
I find pdfs created mostly by Hans Hagen awesome. How to learn ConTeXt
so that I can create documents of similar complexity.
As a programmer I find most of the information with google when I face
problem with LaTeX. But for ConTeXt I find very little information.
All I know is wiki.contextgarden.net and manuals written by Hans.
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Best regards,
Shiv Shankar Dayal
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* How to learn ConTeXt?
@ 2005-01-20 12:52 Marcin Borkowski
2005-01-21 13:34 ` Willi Egger
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From: Marcin Borkowski @ 2005-01-20 12:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
Hello everyone!
My question is as in subject: how to learn ConTeXt? And another ones:
How to install ConTeXt? Manually or from, e.g., TeXlive?
I would like to typeset in Antykwa Torunska or Antykwa Poltawskiego.
Setting \setupbodyfont[...] yields errors about missing ec-ant* fonts (I
use the TeXlive 2004 installation, the same thing happened in TeXlive
2003).
Greetings
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Marcin Borkowski
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* Re: How to learn ConTeXt?
2005-01-20 12:52 How to learn ConTeXt? Marcin Borkowski
@ 2005-01-21 13:34 ` Willi Egger
2005-01-21 22:03 ` h h extern
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From: Willi Egger @ 2005-01-21 13:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
Hi Marcin
If you have a working TeXlive thats ok. You can use this. - Another
approach is to take a minimal distribution from Pragma. I have both on
my computer.Hans's ditribution does perfectly what I need. If you want
to stay with ConTeXt then I see no reason to take on board more than
Hans provides in his minimal distribution.
The easiest way to pick up ConTeXt is to start with the "ConTeXT an
excursion" manual. A good place for info and tips is the ConTeXt wiki
(http://contextgarden.net/Main_Page)
Seting up the bodyfont is is basically not difficult, but it has changed
in time ... Provided you use the latest ConTeXt:
For Antykwa Torunska the following shoud work
\usetypescript[antykwa-torunska][texnansi]
\definetypeface
[myfont]
[rm]
[serif]
[antykwa-torunska]
[default]
[encoding=texnansi]
\setupbodyfont[myfont,rm,12pt]
For Antykwa Poltawskiego it will be:
\usetypescript[antykwa-poltawskiego][texnansi]
\definetypeface
[myfont]
[rm]
[serif]
[antykwa-poltawskiego]
[default]
[encoding=texnansi]
\setupbodyfont[myfont,rm,12pt]
Success
Willi
Marcin Borkowski wrote:
> Hello everyone!
>
> My question is as in subject: how to learn ConTeXt? And another ones:
>
> How to install ConTeXt? Manually or from, e.g., TeXlive?
>
> I would like to typeset in Antykwa Torunska or Antykwa Poltawskiego.
> Setting \setupbodyfont[...] yields errors about missing ec-ant* fonts (I
> use the TeXlive 2004 installation, the same thing happened in TeXlive
> 2003).
>
> Greetings
>
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* Re: How to learn ConTeXt?
2005-01-21 13:34 ` Willi Egger
@ 2005-01-21 22:03 ` h h extern
2005-01-23 9:01 ` Rob Ermers
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From: h h extern @ 2005-01-21 22:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
Willi Egger wrote:
> The easiest way to pick up ConTeXt is to start with the "ConTeXT an
> excursion" manual. A good place for info and tips is the ConTeXt wiki
> (http://contextgarden.net/Main_Page)
a bigger example is the pdftex manual
Hans
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* Re: How to learn ConTeXt?
2005-01-21 22:03 ` h h extern
@ 2005-01-23 9:01 ` Rob Ermers
2005-01-23 11:09 ` Patrick Gundlach
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From: Rob Ermers @ 2005-01-23 9:01 UTC (permalink / raw)
An addition: the source of the pdftex manual is called pdftex-t.tex. It
is available on the internet (as I found out today).
Regards,
Robert Ermers
h h extern wrote:
> Willi Egger wrote:
>
>> The easiest way to pick up ConTeXt is to start with the "ConTeXT an
>> excursion" manual. A good place for info and tips is the ConTeXt wiki
>> (http://contextgarden.net/Main_Page)
>
>
> a bigger example is the pdftex manual
>
> Hans
>
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