Re: [NTG-context] How could a typesetting system be today? (slightly off-topic, flame and nostalgic)

2008-06-13 Thread Maurí­cio
Aditya Mahajan a écrit : On Thu, 12 Jun 2008, Hans Hagen wrote: Maurí­cio wrote: used ‘ϕ’ in a math formula for one of his papers and Context it showing up depends on what you use (mkii or mkiv), if the character is defined, if the font has it (in text mode) etc etc For mkii you simply

Re: [NTG-context] How could a typesetting system be today? (slightly off-topic, flame and nostalgic)

2008-06-12 Thread Hans Hagen
Maurí­cio wrote: used ‘ϕ’ in a math formula for one of his papers and Context it showing up depends on what you use (mkii or mkiv), if the character is defined, if the font has it (in text mode) etc etc could not open it, since it was a PDF revision 1.8 instead of 1.3 indeed a future

Re: [NTG-context] How could a typesetting system be today? (slightly off-topic, flame and nostalgic)

2008-06-12 Thread Maurí­cio
Do you mean like Scrivener on the Mac? I don’t know. I tried Context, then TeX, than went back to Context. Now also Metapost. Sorry for beeing biased, but I really like the programer approach to computers. What, in any case, constitutes a universal layout approach? Does one exist? (...) I