Re: [NTG-context] simplefonts or Typecripts

2010-08-14 Thread Gour D.
On Fri, 13 Aug 2010 17:58:55 +0200
 Hans == Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote:

Hans it depends ... simplefonts uses some heuristics and therefore can
Hans make it easier but not all fonts fit into a systematic approach

I see.

Hans for a long time project making a few typescripts (just use those
Hans defined at the end of type-otf.mkiv as template) and using file:
Hans is more robust esp as it will nicely fail when something
Hans fundamental has changed (names or so)

Thanks for the hint.

By inspecting type-otf.mkiv from texlive  context-minimals, I see
that the latter is almost 4x bigger - probably it includes most of the
interesting free fonts available.

For now, it can be enough considering that atm we'll mostly write
markdown/reST and convert to ConTeXt via pandoc, but later we'll go
into final production and then there will be another question
relevant - whether there are some affordable commercial quality
fonts which could enhance the free collection and which cover extended
Unicode range (we need to use Sanskrit diacritics that were created via
TeX accent mechanism when we worked in old LaTeX).


Sincerely,
Gour

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[NTG-context] simplefonts or Typecripts

2010-08-13 Thread Gour D.
Hello!

I'd like to (finally) dive into ConTeXt (MkIV) using it for everything
and stop using LyX/LaTeX...ConText is installed via
context-minimals-git package on Archlinux (thank you Aditya).

The 'Using fonts' section on wiki says:

Handling fonts in LuaTeX can be done

* in a simple but limited way, using the simplefonts module;
* in the standard way, using TypeScripts 

and I've tried example with Delicious font (too bad there is no
Croatian characters available) and it works.

Considering I never learnt TypeScripts mechanism (and managed to
forget most of ConteXr I knew when fiddling with it some years ago), I
wonder if 'simplefonts' is THE way to go with fonts in MkIV and/or is
there something one may miss by not using TypeScripts mechanism?


Sincerely,
Gour

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Re: [NTG-context] simplefonts or Typecripts

2010-08-13 Thread Gour D.
On Fri, 13 Aug 2010 17:58:55 +0200
 Hans == Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote:  

Hans it depends ... simplefonts uses some heuristics and therefore can
Hans make it easier but not all fonts fit into a systematic approach  

I see.

Hans for a long time project making a few typescripts (just use those
Hans defined at the end of type-otf.mkiv as template) and using file:
Hans is more robust esp as it will nicely fail when something
Hans fundamental has changed (names or so)  

Thanks for the hint.

By inspecting type-otf.mkiv from texlive  context-minimals, I see
that the latter is almost 4x bigger - probably it includes most of the
interesting free fonts available.

For now, it can be enough considering that atm we'll mostly write
markdown/reST and convert to ConTeXt via pandoc, but later we'll go
into final production and then there will be another question
relevant - whether there are some affordable commercial quality
fonts which could enhance the free collection and which cover extended
Unicode range (we need to use Sanskrit diacritics that were created via
TeX accent mechanism when we worked in old LaTeX).


Sincerely,
Gour

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Re: [NTG-context] other markup to ConTeXt

2010-08-13 Thread Gour D.
On Fri, 13 Aug 2010 22:35:04 +0200
 Henning == Henning Hraban Ramm hra...@fiee.net wrote:

Henning Sounds interesting. What's your workflow? Do you use a special
Henning editor (WYSIWYM?) for your markup?

Writing markdown/reST in Emacs which has nice modes for both markup
formats. (There is even pandoc-mode.). Then I plan to use Sphinx to
generate nice html and qthelp files.

Finally, for the high-quality output, we plan to convert to ConTeXt
(via pandoc since there is no ConTeXt writer for sphinx/docutils) for
high-quality PDF output (if rst2pdf won't be satisfying or if we would
like to provide paper putput.

Henning For a new project I'm planning to use some simple markup
Henning (probably ReST) with a Web CMS to create HTML and ConTeXt -
Henning PDF. (I won't need math.)

I don't need math as well. ;)


Sincerely,
Gour

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