From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/3949 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Uwe Koloska" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: someone working at a module for koma compatibility? Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 00:21:41 +0100 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <01020100214102.30780@bilbo> References: <3.0.6.32.20010131144152.01c0c390@server-1> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035394650 21524 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 17:37:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 17:37:30 +0000 (UTC) Original-To: ConTeXt In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.20010131144152.01c0c390@server-1> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:3949 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:3949 You wrote on Mittwoch, 31. Januar 2001 14:41: >At 06:03 PM 1/30/01 +0100, Uwe Koloska wrote: > >What are koma-scripts ? > Koma-script is a LaTeX class family better suited for european eyes and paper formats. It's outstanding feature is the calculation of the typing area with a algorithm suggested by Jan Tschichold. But there are other nice features that makes this classes superior to their LaTeX equivalents that they are coming from. As far as I understand ConTeXt (and their still is a long way to go) in contrast to LaTeX: It is a far better plain-TeX with many modern features but lacks the ready to go document classes that was the main purpose for LaTeX. So in ConTeXt you are able to do a lot more things far more easyly than with LaTeX but you have to do it yourself. With LaTeX you can write an article without thinking about layout -- and it looks good (but if you want to tweak it a little bit ...) So I thought about converting some of the LaTeX classes to context with respect to the layout. Because every now and then I suggested ConTeXt to people searching for a better alternative to word (not that difficult ;-)) Uwe -- mailto:koloska@rcs.urz.tu-dresden.de http://rcswww.urz.tu-dresden.de/~koloska/ -- -- right now the web page is in german only but this will change as time goes by ;-)