From: "Frans Goddijn" <frans@iaf.nl>
Subject: Re: beginner's questions
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 18:56:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <006001c04c08$cc067b00$118582c3@oemcomputer> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20001111173713.26A132317E@client44-3.kabela.oprit.rug.nl>
> A dissenting voice: I don't think Context is easier than LaTeX.
One
> stumbling block is the documentation - there is a lot of it,
but I find
Quite tolerable voice ;-)) I agree insofar as I have to get used
to the documentation and often things look so simple that I see
right through the transparancy and make things unnecessarily
complicated for myself. If I get something to work and I show my
source file to Hans, he shows me that the same can be done with
90% less effort.
I wish I could order The ConTeXt manual somewhere, finished,
complete, with examples, nicely bound ;-)) But we have to wait
until it's finished and it seems there's a race going on: ConTeXt
gets new features, calling for an update on the manual and while
the manual gets updates, nearing the End, ConTeXt gets more new
features documented in an exciting sub-manual which will
eventually be inserted in the Big Manual...
> Two things in favour of Context: other than LaTeX, it is
capable of
> producing a tight column layout. Also, Hans is very responsive
and
> helpful when you have a problem.
Which makes it fun to use, and this forum is very much alive with
people doing new things. I can't say I can follow all the codings
at all that I see passing and I call myself lucky for not needing
to be on the cutting edge ;-}}
Groet!
Frans
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Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-11-09 16:51 Wouter Verheijen
2000-11-09 17:20 ` Frans Goddijn
2000-11-09 17:54 ` Hans Hagen
2000-11-09 17:40 ` Hans Hagen
2000-11-09 19:25 ` Ed L Cashin
2000-11-11 17:34 ` siepo
2000-11-11 17:56 ` Frans Goddijn [this message]
2000-11-24 12:51 ` Christopher Tipper
2000-11-11 19:41 ` Berend de Boer
2000-11-12 11:34 ` siepo
2000-11-12 18:56 ` Denis B. Roegel
2000-11-13 9:37 ` Hans Hagen
2000-11-13 16:54 ` multi-column spread control (was Re: beginner's questions) Ed L Cashin
2000-11-13 17:17 ` Hans Hagen
2000-11-13 18:43 ` Ed L Cashin
2000-11-13 18:44 ` Ed L Cashin
2000-11-14 7:49 ` Hans Hagen
2000-11-14 13:27 ` Ed L Cashin
2000-11-14 14:13 ` Hans Hagen
2000-11-14 14:49 ` Ed L Cashin
2000-11-14 15:49 ` Hans Hagen
2000-11-14 16:45 ` Ed L Cashin
2000-11-14 17:12 ` Hans Hagen
2000-11-14 18:25 ` Ed L Cashin
2000-11-15 0:23 ` Hans Hagen
2000-11-15 1:15 ` Ed L Cashin
2000-11-15 17:20 ` voting & form design (was: multi-column spread control) Hraban
2000-11-14 21:51 ` multi-column spread control (was Re: beginner's questions) Denis B. Roegel
2000-11-15 0:20 ` Hans Hagen
2000-11-15 23:28 ` Denis B. Roegel
2000-11-19 19:31 ` Hans Hagen
2000-11-12 14:04 ` Documentation Tasks (was: " Hraban
2000-11-13 7:38 ` beginner's questions Hans Hagen
2000-11-13 21:26 ` siepo
2000-11-09 19:19 ` Berend de Boer
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-09-27 21:14 Michael Na Li
2002-09-28 9:07 ` Michael Na Li
2002-09-28 9:35 ` Jens-Uwe Morawski
2002-09-29 6:38 ` Michael Na Li
2002-09-29 16:35 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2002-09-30 8:11 ` Taco Hoekwater
[not found] <Hans Hagen's message of "Tue, 14 Nov 2000 18:12:11 +0100">
[not found] ` <Hans Hagen's message of "Tue, 14 Nov 2000 16:49:12 +0100">
[not found] ` <Hans Hagen's message of "Tue, 14 Nov 2000 15:13:29 +0100">
[not found] ` <Hans Hagen's message of "Tue, 14 Nov 2000 08:49:03 +0100">
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