On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 11:28 AM, Rudolf Bahr <qu...@quasi.de> wrote:
> Hello list members, > > an only-a-few-days-fan of Context writes to you for the first time. I'm > pleased > to have found a program closer to TeX and younger than LaTeX. In the last > years > I used LaTeX for a bigger family project with good success, but > experienced some > difficulties in arranging minipages containing changing text and pictures > especially in series letters. > So I'm trying to do that using Context. Of course I cannot change hundreds > of > files from LaTeX to Context, but newer tasks I'd like to do in Context. > > There is a first question I have concerning Fraktur fonts which I'd like > to use > typesetting a poem: > > I found a 2-mail-discussion in your 2002-archiv concerning those fonts. > But I > have to admit that I don't understand what is written there. So, I tried > simply > > \definefont[Gedichtfont][Fraktur] > \Gedichtfont{... poem ...} > > both with "context" and "texexec", but I don't achieve the desired result. > "texexec" displays a font somehow similar to Fraktur, but not a very nice > one and > much to broad; and it seems to have no different "s" (one inner-word and > one word-end > or syllable-end "s") as needed in Fraktur. And, my "texexec" doesn't know > anything > about umlauts and sharp s. > Whereas my "context" (translating the same program), dosn't know Fraktur, > but knows > umlauts. > So I'm always using both of them, enjoying the partial success of both, > though > I read somewhere, it should be better using "texexec". > > Well, a very nice Fraktur font is Yannis Haralambous' "yfrak" in his > "yfont" > series, the nicest one I've found until now. > > Could you please help me to formulate the correct commands to use a "nice" > Fraktur > font, be it "yfrak" or another one? But please remember, Context is still > rather > confusing to me. So, it should be simple enough. > > Best regards, > Ruhmwolf > > Thinking to latex: etex+latex format = latex pdftex+latex format = pdflatex luatex+latex format = lualatex Probably you were/are using pdflatex or latex We have now : mkii: pdftex+mkii format To run mkii you use texexec mkii is frozen and from the pov of features it's like latex and pdflatex mkiv:luatex+mkiv format luatex embeds the Lua language. To run mkiv you use context mkiv the current target of development and is very advanced, while lualatex it's still behind . It's the recommanded format: mkii is of course stable, but every feature of mkii is now in mkiv and mkiv is more easy (I should also add faster than mkii but not always , we are working on it... oh well you can use luajiitex in case) For fonts you can search and try simplefonts (works with mkiv only) -- luigi
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