[NTG-context] Intro to Luatex
Luatex has a lot of features that Context doesn't. Where is the best place to start learning about it? -- John Culleton Able Indexers and Typesetters ___ 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 ___
Re: [NTG-context] Intro to Luatex
On Sat, 29 Aug 2009 15:35:33 -0600, John Culleton 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 ___ 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 ___
Re: [NTG-context] Intro to Luatex
On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 11:35 PM, John Culleton wrote: > Luatex has a lot of features that Context doesn't. Where is the best > place to start learning about it? For example ? -- luigi ___ 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 ___
Re: [NTG-context] Intro to Luatex
On Monday 31 August 2009 13:37:04 luigi scarso wrote: > On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 11:35 PM, John Culleton wrote: > > Luatex has a lot of features that Context doesn't. Where is the best > > place to start learning about it? > > For example ? > > -- > luigi It appears to me that there are significant changes to the font handling in Luatex. There may be other changes. I am looking for any comprehensive guidance that would supplement or even supplant the 2001 Context documentation for users. -- John Culleton ___ 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 ___
Re: [NTG-context] Intro to Luatex
On Wed, 2 Sep 2009, John Culleton wrote: It appears to me that there are significant changes to the font handling in Luatex. There may be other changes. I am looking for any comprehensive guidance that would supplement or even supplant the 2001 Context documentation for users. For fonts see the chapters of the new manual. http://context.aanhet.net/svn/contextman/context-reference/en/co-typography.pdf http://context.aanhet.net/svn/contextman/context-reference/en/co-fonts.pdf Aditya ___ 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 ___
Re: [NTG-context] Intro to Luatex
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 3:50 PM, John Culleton wrote: > On Monday 31 August 2009 13:37:04 luigi scarso wrote: >> On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 11:35 PM, John > Culleton wrote: >> > Luatex has a lot of features that Context doesn't. Where is > the best >> > place to start learning about it? >> >> For example ? >> >> -- >> luigi > > It appears to me that there are significant changes to the font > handling in Luatex. There may be other changes. Yes, unicode for example. I believe that you are making a comparison between pdftex+context mkii and luatex It's wrong . The right comparison is between pdftex+context mkii, xetex+mkii, luatex+mkiv -- luigi ___ 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 ___
Re: [NTG-context] Intro to Luatex
On Saturday 29 August 2009 18:01:41 Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote: > On Sat, 29 Aug 2009 15:35:33 -0600, John Culleton > > 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 Simple question: using xetex style \font statements how do I get curly quotes from texexec --xtx book.tex? Is the answer different for texexec --lua book.tex? -- John Culleton "Create Book Covers with Scribus" http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html ___ 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 ___
Re: [NTG-context] Intro to Luatex
2009/9/4 John Culleton:
>
> Simple question: using xetex style \font statements how do I get
> curly quotes from
> texexec --xtx book.tex?
>
> Is the answer different for
> texexec --lua book.tex?
Do you mean \quotation{something} that should work out of the box or
the curly quote as in "I'm"? If you are talking about the "I'm" case:
1.) in XeTeX you need to use \font\a="Font Name;mapping=tlig" (or
mapping=tex-text, but it might be that tex-text is missing in
minimals; not sure).
2.) It's differet in luatex, but I don't know it by heart; it
something like \font\a=fontname*default (or fontname*myfeatures + you
need to define trep=yes in myfeatures:
\definefontfeature[myfeatures][tlig=yes,trep=yes]). But please wait
for a better answer and explanation.
Mojca
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