From: "Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد" <ishamid@colostate.edu>
To: john@wexfordpress.com,
"mailing list for ConTeXt users" <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Intro to Luatex
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2009 16:01:41 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <op.uzf1431gfkrasx@your-b27fb1c401> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200908291735.34005.john@wexfordpress.com>
On Sat, 29 Aug 2009 15:35:33 -0600, John Culleton <john@wexfordpress.com>
wrote:
> Luatex has a lot of features that Context doesn't. Where is the best
> place to start learning about it?
Category mistake: luatex is an engine, like pdftex and xetex :-)
luatex is one of three official engines that context can use:
MkII: pdftex,xetex
MkIV: luatex
MkII is frozen afaik: MkIV is the main development branch. Eventually MkIV
will _be_ Context for all practical purposes.
The most obvious thing MkIV gives you at the moment is advanced control of
OpenType fonts. For developers, lua provides advanced scripting and
extensibility. see also
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Mark_IV
http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/mk.pdf
Best wishes
Idris
--
Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief
International Journal of Shi`i Studies
Department of Philosophy
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO 80523
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-29 22:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-29 21:35 John Culleton
2009-08-29 22:01 ` Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد [this message]
2009-09-04 21:08 ` John Culleton
2009-09-05 9:32 ` Mojca Miklavec
2009-08-31 17:37 ` luigi scarso
2009-09-02 13:50 ` John Culleton
2009-09-02 14:27 ` Aditya Mahajan
2009-09-02 22:02 ` luigi scarso
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