On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Andrea Valle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hmm, with Luatex I can use system fonts like in XeTeX. Am I right?
Yes but some fonts use AAT feayures rather than OpenType features (take a look at the Arabic thread), so don't worry if you want to use fonts for foreign languages like Arabic or CJK. > Best > -a- Wolfgang > On 10 Jun 2008, at 16:36, Andrea Valle wrote: > > Hi to all, > I've briefly presented ConTeXt to the students of my course in Visual > Identities. > They were all enthusiastic. So they asked me if I can give an introductory > but "real" seminar. > At my lab the students are all on macosx 10.4/5. > Now the probem: > All my students comes from humanities, no computer science background at > all. I cannot ask them to be aware of low level installation aspects. > My ideal would be something like the standard ConTeXt I was working with an > year ago. One installs MacTeX and can start working. > Now, we need easy font switching. I'm actually using XeTeX. But it has been > complicated to set it up. I don't think I can have my students dig into > installations ("patch this" etc). > Is there any chance to have luatex into the next MacTeX distro? > Any ideas? > Many thanks > Best > > -a- > > > -------------------------------------------------- > Andrea Valle > -------------------------------------------------- > CIRMA - DAMS > Università degli Studi di Torino > --> http://www.cirma.unito.it/andrea/ > --> http://www.myspace.com/andreavalle > --> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -------------------------------------------------- > > " > Think of it as seasoning > . noise [salt] is boring > . F(blah) [food without salt] can be boring > . F(noise, blah) can be really tasty > " > (Ken Perlin on noise) > > > > > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > 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 > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > > -------------------------------------------------- > Andrea Valle > -------------------------------------------------- > CIRMA - DAMS > Università degli Studi di Torino > --> http://www.cirma.unito.it/andrea/ > --> http://www.myspace.com/andreavalle > --> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -------------------------------------------------- > > " > Think of it as seasoning > . noise [salt] is boring > . F(blah) [food without salt] can be boring > . F(noise, blah) can be really tasty > " > (Ken Perlin on noise) > > > > > > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > 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 > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > > ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________