[NTG-context] ConTeXt standalone - in what situations is it better?

2013-10-24 Thread Lars Huttar
Hello, I was looking into simplefonts (http://wiki.contextgarden.net/simplefonts) and noticed the clause if you’re running ConTeXt Standalone http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_Standalone (which is a better option) Well I'm using TeXLive, but am happy to take good advice, so I looked at

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt standalone - in what situations is it better?

2013-10-24 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 2:13 PM, Lars Huttar wrote: The other issue for me with Standalone is that the only version listed for Windows is W32TeX. When I go to the web page for that platform, I don't see any information about what W32TeX is; just how to install it. It sounds like it's specific

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt standalone - in what situations is it better?

2013-10-24 Thread john Culleton
On Thu, 24 Oct 2013 14:57:35 +0200 Mojca Miklavec mojca.miklavec.li...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 2:13 PM, Lars Huttar wrote: The other issue for me with Standalone is that the only version listed for Windows is W32TeX. When I go to the web page for that platform, I don't

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt standalone - in what situations is it better?

2013-10-24 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Thu, 24 Oct 2013, Lars Huttar wrote: Hello, I was looking into simplefonts (http://wiki.contextgarden.net/simplefonts) and noticed the clause if you’re running ConTeXt Standalone http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_Standalone (which is a better option) Well I'm using TeXLive, but am

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt standalone - in what situations is it better?

2013-10-24 Thread Aditya Mahajan
The problem with Standalone is that the full range of fonts found with Texlive is not available. Standalone has 258 otf fonts and TexLive has 508 otf fonts. So I am opting for TeXLive, although I have both. I use standalone in parallel with texlive (which I need for latex). In the Arch

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt standalone - in what situations is it better?

2013-10-24 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 24.10.2013 um 16:18 schrieb Aditya Mahajan adit...@umich.edu: Another dfficulty is that many of the examples for simplefonts are apparently developed on a Windows system and I use Linux. Font names are different. I haven't had any trouble with using simplefonts in Linux (but then, I