Re: French and PS fonts support + migration

[Damien WYART <dwyart@noos.fr>]

* Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> [010822 14:28]:

> there is a rough il1 regime now which for most cases should work
> guillemots should not be a problem, but i need to know escapes So, if
> you have input on french, i'll add it asap; the framework is there
> already.

I will wait until Denis Roegel is back from USA to talk about all this.
I know he has made some code pieces.

> fonts are supported, see relatively new manual mfonts.pdf on our site;
> existing fonts should work ok when set up properly, and you can expect
> quite some new font support pretty soon [tested now]; i really want
> users to use the (free) fonts that are around

I am impatient to test these new features !

> mm is no problem [using it now in some projects],

But is it supported directly by ConTeXt, or do we have to hack with
Ghostscript or ATM (a pain when on Unix) as with LaTeX ?

> protruding is supported, and hz will be soon [than is still fixing
> some loose ends]

OK, I look forward testing that too...
-- 
Damien Wyart