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? My luatex books are basically pdftex files with a few statements to get at fonts not included with TeX, e.g., \input luaotfload.sty \font\lll={CHOPS___.TTF} at 48bp \font\lk={CHOPS___.TTF} at 36bp \font\hl={CHOPS___.TTF} at 16bp \font\head={CHOPS___.TTF} at 26bp \font\lr pplr7t at 12bp \font\llr pplr7t at 14bp \font\rm pplr7t at 10bp \font\it pplri7t at 10bp \font\bf pplb7t at 10bp -- John Culleton Able Indexers and Typesetters Cover design, Indexing, Interior Layout
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
Am 29.06.2011 um 22:50 schrieb John Culleton:
Been away for a while. Currently using luatex for
On Wednesday, June 29, 2011 05:01:29 pm Wolfgang Schuster wrote: 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. -- John Culleton Able Indexers and Typesetters Cover design, Indexing, Interior Layout
Am 30.06.2011 um 18:21 schrieb John Culleton:
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.
This is no reason why you have to use \definefont for each font you want to use, write a separate typeface for for each of them and switch to it, you can also select the size with this method. There are also many ways to influence how the lines are broken, see below for a few examples. \definenarrower [adjustmargin] [ left=0.1mm, middle=0.1mm, right=0.1mm] \definefontfeature[default][default][expansion=yes] \setupbodyfont[palatino,10bp] \starttext \showframe \input zapf \startadjustmargin[10*right] \input zapf \stopadjustmargin \start \setuptolerance[verytolerant,stretch] \input zapf \stop \start \kerncharacters[0.01] \input zapf \stop \start \setupalign[hz] \input zapf \stop \start \switchtobodyfont[9.8bp] \input zapf \stop \stoptext Wolfgang
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 10:50 PM, 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? See fonts in context http://www.boekplan.nl/node/11
And should I use MKII or MKIV?
mkii uses pdftex mkiv uses luatex Best solution is the minimals.
My luatex books are basically pdftex files with a few statements to get at fonts not included with TeX, e.g., \input luaotfload.sty
\font\lll={CHOPS___.TTF} at 48bp
\font\lk={CHOPS___.TTF} at 36bp
\font\hl={CHOPS___.TTF} at 16bp
\font\head={CHOPS___.TTF} at 26bp
\font\lr pplr7t at 12bp
\font\llr pplr7t at 14bp
\font\rm pplr7t at 10bp
\font\it pplri7t at 10bp
\font\bf pplb7t at 10bp
Even if you can use a sort of plain luatex in mkiv, It's better ti use the mkiv syntax. -- luigi
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