Am 14.06.2025 um 15:40 schrieb Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context:
> On 6/14/25 12:37, John Was wrote:
>> Good day, Contexters
>
> Hi John,
>
> welcome to the mailing list.
>
>> [...]
>
> As for pstricks (never used it), I have just found that there is a
> module `m-pstrick', but it doesn’t work with LuaMetaTeX.
>
> I couldn’t make it work with LuaTeX either (sample from
> https://mailman.ntg.nl/archives/list/ntg-context@ntg.nl/message/RJR7MRTPR7S35OH4KWAWIOAMY3CRF5UB/).

pstricks uses postscript which isn't supported with pdftex, luatex etc.

> edmac is almost three decades old. If you want
> https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wujastyk/edmac/refs/heads/main/Wujastyk%20and%20Lavagnino_Edmac317%20book_1996.pdf#page=84,
> this should be achievable with ConTeXt (no modules needed).
>
>> for example, but this must be possible, and some primitives
>> such as \baselineskip seem to have disappeared
>
> LuaMetaTeX happens to have a primitive with the same name,
> https://www.pragma-ade.nl/general/manuals/luametatex.pdf#page=93.

\baselineskip is the primitive used with \setupinterlinespace

>> together with the fontcall system I'm used to:
>>
>> \font\umirtenpointsevenfive = "MinionPro-Regular:+onum:mapping=tex-
>> text:letterspace=1.6" at 10.75pt
>
> Not clear to me what the second command (after `\font`) means in plain
> English.

The context version is

\definefont [umirtenpointsevenfive] [file:MinionPro-Regular*<featureset>
at 10.75pt]

and it creates the font switch \umirtenpointsevenfive like the xetex
version.

Wolfgang

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