From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/15793 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Mats Broberg" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: RE: Re: A few questions regarding ConTeXt Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2004 12:19:20 +0200 Organization: The Ars Imprimis Press Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Message-ID: <001a01c47230$d9c9bc50$fcb359d5@DJCPX90J> References: Reply-To: mats.broberg@arsimprimispress.com, mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1090750874 13114 80.91.224.253 (25 Jul 2004 10:21:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2004 10:21:14 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sun Jul 25 12:21:06 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Bog7u-0005TT-00 for ; Sun, 25 Jul 2004 12:21:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24F8E1276B; Sun, 25 Jul 2004 12:21:06 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 28873-01; Sun, 25 Jul 2004 12:21:05 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88A2E12772; Sun, 25 Jul 2004 12:19:22 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 774A112772 for ; Sun, 25 Jul 2004 12:19:21 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 28652-04 for ; Sun, 25 Jul 2004 12:19:20 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from amsfep14-int.chello.nl (unknown [213.46.243.21]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDCC21276B for ; Sun, 25 Jul 2004 12:19:20 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from DJCPX90J ([213.89.179.252]) by amsfep14-int.chello.nl (InterMail vM.6.00.05.02 201-2115-109-103-20031105) with ESMTP id <20040725101920.UDPY8369.amsfep14-int.chello.nl@DJCPX90J> for ; Sun, 25 Jul 2004 12:19:20 +0200 Original-To: X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2627 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 In-Reply-To: Importance: Normal X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:15793 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:15793 > -----Original Message----- > From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl=20 > [mailto:ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl] On Behalf Of Peter M=FCnster > Sent: den 24 juli 2004 19:45 > Hello Mats, > I agree with you: ConTeXt is certainly superior to LaTeX, but=20 > sometimes, I know how to do a special thing in LaTeX, but not=20 > in ConTeXt. Often I don't know, if a special feature is=20 > already there but undocumented, or not. Sometimes, I find a=20 > sort of "workaround" to get some LaTeX behaviour, for example=20 > "\flushbottom". For beginners there is the document=20 > http://www.berenddeboer.net/tex/LaTeX2ConTeXt.> pdf by Berend=20 > de Boer. It would be nice, to have something=20 > like this for advanced topics, such as varioref or lettrine.=20 > These special "LaTeX to ConTeXt" examples can then be added=20 > to the ConTeXt-wiki: http://contextgarden.net/From_LaTeX_to_ConTeXt > Cheers, Peter Thanks for the info. Having looked more closely at this, I guess it now stands between learning LaTeX and the memoir class, or learning ConTeXt. There are things that talk in favour for both these roadmaps, but I have not decided yet.=20 One of the issues is how to solve a problem in ConTeXt if it suddenly becomes clear this or that feature is not implemented.=20 Best regards, Mats Broberg