[XeTeX] The apprentice's response

[Yue Wang]

NAW use ConTeXt for typesetting

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 6:11 PM, Arash Zeini <azeini at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>> From: Wilfred van Rooijen <wvanrooijen at yahoo.com>
>> To: Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms <xetex at tug.org>
>> Sent: Saturday, 18 April, 2009 3:02:48
>> Subject: Re: [XeTeX] The apprentice's response
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>> Note that for (very) advanced type setting ConTeXt may be better. It more
>> closely approximates a DTP program. I've seen examples of ConTeXt where a book
>> was written in some very old Icelandic alphabet (fonts made with metafont /
>> metapost, part of any latex distribution), but also incorporating folding pages
>> of various sizes, and also "critical editions" where a text is being translated
>> and the original and translation are set on the left and right page, where all
>> the lines have to always correspond. It is really amazing what latex can do!
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> If you happen to have some links or more information, I would be interested to know more about ConTeXt and critical editions. I have searched the net several times, but without any result.
> I am working on a critical edition using ledmac with xelatex.
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> Thanks,
> Arash
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