On Wednesday, June 29, 2011 05:01:29 pm Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
> Am 29.06.2011 um 22:50 schrieb John Culleton:
> > Been away for a while. Currently using luatex for lightly formatted
> > documents. But I want to use Context for my next job (lots of
> > formatting). How do I incorporate luatex and the fonts found by luatex
> > in my Context file? And should I use MKII or MKIV?
>
> John, the question you should ask yourself is if ConTeXt is the right tool
> for you.
>
> What i learnt from you past mails is that you always use many macros from
> files which are written for plain TeX instead of ConTeXt’s own mechanism.
> When you really want to use ConTeXt then use ConTeXt’s commands to change
> the font, the layout and also to produce a index etc.
>
> Wolfgang
>
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Understood. I also found a chapter on fonts which I presume will go in a manual yet to be written. In that chapter I found a \definefont command which should allow me to emulate my previous use of the \font commmand.
In my work I frequently adjust font sizes by tiny increments to help fit text better on a specific page etc. And customers sometimes want a specific decorative font at a specific size. And the \font command is very direct. For this reason in both LaTeX and Context I tend to revert to the primitive.
The new task I have in front of me will have a complex layout where the features of Context for lists within lists etc. will be most useful. And there will be lots of small illustrations. So I will do it in Context.
Thanks as always for the help from this list.
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John Culleton
Able Indexers and Typesetters
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