Am 2008-04-06 um 04:35 schrieb Mojca Miklavec: > On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 11:36 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: >> Since I need to typeset some names with characters outside of ec >> encoding, I'm just checking out XeTeX. >> >> - first threshold: >> If you have \setupoutput[pdftex] in cont-sys.tex, it doesn't >> work. ;-) >> (Complains "you should use pdftex binaries".) > > Since texmfstart era, pdf is the default output format anyway, so you > really need to try hard to produce dvi. Simply remove > \setupoutput[pdftex] (why do you need it there?)
Seems I don't need it - I just don't change my cont-sys.tex as long as I don't run into trouble. Since I use ConTeXt since 1999 now, there may be some unneeded settings. ;-) But in that days (at least before XeTeX/luaTeX) it wasn't so easy to find a working configuration. >> - second threshold: >> Adapt your typescripts. Since I use TeX Gyre anyway, that was no >> problem. (Is there still no complete type-gyr.tex in the >> distribution? I couldn't find it.) > > TeX Gyre typescripts are loaded by default when you use XeTeX or > LuaTeX. See type-otf.tex > >> - third threshold (standing there): >> XeTeX can't read tagged PDFs. For I typeset proceedings, I must >> include a lot of pages from presentation PDFs. And even if I'd call >> myself a PDF professional, I didn't find a way to delete all tags >> from a PDF. > > Did you try to convert the PDF to 1.4 (with Adobe Professional for > example)? Yes, even 1.3. Tried optimizing (that *should* delete all unnecessary cruft). It seems possible to delete tags with one of the TouchUp tools, but the PDF stays "tagged" anyway. > Else you need to ask on the XeTeX mailing list. (But indeed: why not > trying out LuaTeX?) I'm too lazy to recompile my binaries all the time; my old Mac is rather slow... >> Tomorrow I'll try to use an additional PostScript font - is that >> even >> possible? Otherwise I must convert it to OpenType. > > It is, but which OS and what kind of PostScript font are you using? > Mac type of PostScript fonts doesn't work (or better: it only works > with xdv2pdf, which isn't supported in ConTeXt any more). You can use > the "windows type" Type1 fonts (i.e. just the normal .pfb files). That > should work on any system, but on Mac you need to reference it by > filename. Font name won't work. Ok, thanks. I guess I could have found out on my own, but was too tired yesterday... I knew that resource fork fonts don't work. But I installed all necessary fonts for pdfTeX anyway. Lots of them, back in 2004/2005, see my typescripts collection: http://www.fiee.net/texnique/?menu=0-1-4&lang=en BTW: I'd love to come to the gathering in Slovenija, but I must typeset my main project (a monthly city magazine) at that time. Greetlings from Lake Constance! Hraban --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://wiki.contextgarden.net https://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer) ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________
