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)