From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/3245 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Frans Goddijn" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: beginner's questions Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 18:20:29 +0100 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <00f201c04a71$d0bd4a40$ce8582c3@oemcomputer> References: <20001109175117.A942@wouter.verheijen.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035393989 15369 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 17:26:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 17:26:29 +0000 (UTC) Original-To: "context" Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:3245 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:3245 Hi Wouter, welcome to the world of ConTeXt! > can avoid language conflicts. Do the Dutch people agree or is it > normal to use the dutch words. I don't think it matters much. I started in Dutch and I'm confident that any new feature will be available in Dutch as well as in other languages. I do not exchange source texts with english language people at present so I don't need the english option. And if I get an english source file I can still run it. > - Most of the work I plan to make with context are small (<20pages) > reports. Mostly text with some tables and pictures, and a few > graphs. Is context the program to handle this, or should I choose > latex? After a quick look at the docs, it seems context is easier to > do most things. Is this correct? Especially if you start out, ConTeXt is the way to go today, I think. Even if you produce relatively simple documents today, eventually you will want to add some new subtleties or complications to make your docs just that bit better looking, or more portable, or interactive. With LaTeX that makes you dependent on a series of style-file-authors who don't usually communicate to keep their joint maze of new commands non-conflicting. This didn't bother me in the past but if I could do it all over gain, and ConteXt was where it is now in say 1993, I'd have been a ConTeXt user all along. LaTeX and its myriad clever plug-in styles was way ahead of the rest some years back, but I think that has changed now. If you use ConTeXt and keep yourself updated, you are almost automatically right there at the cutting edge of TeX typesetting. That's fun and thrilling, plus you create fine documents, which is what we all started out to do. Enjoy! Frans frans@goddijn.com www.goddijn.com tel NL 0621-815 881 fax: 026-3211759 Postbus 30196 6803 AD Arnhem NL