Thank you, Pablo, for the information about the Microtype package. And after a bit more searching (and getting an answer from Hans Hagen :-) ), I am considering MkIV, instead of MkII, now. But I have another question: How can I identify the files that are only required for MkII, and not needed for MkIV? Would it be safe to delete them? Actually I want to reduce the size of ConTeXt as much as possible.

On Sat, Oct 29, 2016 at 3:11 AM, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:
On 10/28/2016 9:06 PM, Pablo Rodriguez wrote:
On 10/28/2016 08:35 PM, Asim ConTeXt wrote:
Thank you.
I want to use MkII because, as far as I know, MkII uses pdfTeX; which is
stable. While MkIV uses LuaTeX; which is yet in development. Further,
pdfTeX is better at microtypography.

 In what respect better? The mechanism in Luatex is mostly the same as in pdftex but has been improved a bit (cleaner pdf code, more efficient font usage i.e. no duplicate fonts, etc.) and the mkiv support is probably a bit better than mkii too.

Am I correct at these two points? I would like to hear from you.

Hi Asim,

I’m only an average user. But I guess LuaTeX is pretty stable (version 1
was released recently).

I have no complain about LuaTeX microtypography. I mean, I use both font
expansion and character protrusion, and they work fine for me.

But I’m not a LaTeX user. If you took the data from
http://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/microtype/microtype.pdf#page=7,
please don’t forget that the LuaTeX version included in that table is old.

Maybe you find interesting this thread about microtypography in ConTeXt:
https://mailman.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2016/084990.html.

I found that my system fonts are located at c:\windows\fonts, so I added
this address in front of OSFONTDIR in texmf.cnf file. But it still is
not working, although the previous warning message has now gone. ConTeXt
now silently stops the processing and does not give any output file.

I’d rather use MkIV. But if you want to stick to MkII, consider the
following variants:

    OSFONTDIR = $SystemRoot/Fonts
    OSFONTDIR = c:/Windows/Fonts

I cannot remember, but I think using "\" is problematic with TeX (even
for path names).

Just in case it might help,


Pablo



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