From: Matthias Weber <matweber@indiana.edu>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: distro info
Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 21:36:19 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0727A59F-C55F-4049-83D7-4D743C5411ED@indiana.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1213490511.17464.27.camel@elbereth>
For a while I thought it doesn't make sense for me to add to this
thread, but there appears to be
a complete ignorance among many power ConTeXt users about "abnormal"
ways to
use ConTeXt, and maybe even computers.
I believe that there are keyboard people and mouse people. I myself
am mostly a mouse person.
Nevertheless, TeX has its appeal to me, besides its math typesetting
competence. I love to formulate
what I write while I am typing, and because I type slowly, this works
quite well. I found that wysiwyg systems
distract me from finding good formulations, because I pay too much
attention to the layout while typing.
After producing the content, it is quite easy to change the layout,
and I like to do that, too -- but it is
a totally different activity.
I found ConTeXt to be more satisfying than LaTeX here, for several
reasons. One of them is that if I want to achieve
something new in LaTeX, I typically have to choose (carefullly)
between several different packages,
with the danger of breaking something else or to run into limitations.
With ConTeXt, the "Garden" is a great resource, and if everything
else fails, one can ask on this friendly list...
No my confession: I hate digging around in the TeX tree, or compile
new versions, etc.
While I have done all this, sometimes successfully, sometimes not, I
just don't need to do it often enough that
I have become familiar enough with the pitfalls so that I can
overcome potential problems. My memory
is so bad that something I don't do at least weekly will just
disappear, and I don't have enough time
to exercise the unix installation yoga weekly.
Hence I have been living with the TeXLive ConTeXt distribution(on a
Mac) for a while, always afraid that the answer
to a problem will be "just upgrade to the newest nightly built". I am
sure I am not the only one.
But I do not complain. ConTeXt is great, but has a long way to go
until Hans and company can afford dealing
with a larger user base -- when the volume of this mailing list
doubles, it will become completely useless
to new users.
Matthias
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-15 1:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-10 14:36 Andrea Valle
2008-06-10 14:43 ` Andrea Valle
2008-06-10 15:29 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2008-06-10 15:30 ` Otared Kavian
2008-06-10 15:34 ` Hans Hagen
2008-06-10 17:21 ` David
2008-06-10 17:37 ` Hans Hagen
2008-06-10 20:31 ` Andrea Valle
2008-06-12 1:22 ` David
2008-06-12 7:51 ` Olivier Guéry
2008-06-12 8:58 ` Mojca Miklavec
2008-06-10 15:58 ` Mojca Miklavec
2008-06-10 20:27 ` Andrea Valle
2008-06-10 21:08 ` Mojca Miklavec
2008-06-11 12:09 ` Oliver Buerschaper
2008-06-11 14:55 ` Andrea Valle
2008-06-11 16:05 ` Mojca Miklavec
2008-06-11 16:55 ` Andrea Valle
2008-06-11 20:43 ` Jesse Alama
2008-06-12 9:00 ` Andrea Valle
2008-06-13 16:40 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2008-06-13 17:08 ` Andrea Valle
2008-06-13 18:01 ` Mojca Miklavec
2008-06-13 18:20 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2008-06-13 18:26 ` Matthias Weber
2008-06-13 19:23 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2008-06-13 17:57 ` Thomas A. Schmitz
2008-06-14 11:07 ` Oliver Buerschaper
2008-06-14 11:35 ` Thomas A. Schmitz
2008-06-14 13:57 ` Andrea Valle
2008-06-14 17:36 ` Thomas A. Schmitz
2008-06-14 21:38 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2008-06-14 23:32 ` Charles P. Schaum
2008-06-14 14:19 ` Oliver Buerschaper
2008-06-14 16:35 ` Jesse Alama
2008-06-14 18:59 ` Mojca Miklavec
2008-06-14 23:05 ` Diego Depaoli
2008-06-15 0:41 ` Charles P. Schaum
2008-06-15 1:36 ` Matthias Weber [this message]
2008-06-15 9:40 ` Andrea Valle
2008-06-30 5:27 ` Jesse Alama
2008-06-30 7:03 ` Alan Stone
2008-06-30 8:20 ` Mojca Miklavec
2008-06-30 16:21 ` George N. White III
2008-06-14 11:48 ` Andrea Valle
2008-06-14 13:55 ` John Culleton
2008-06-17 16:02 ` searchable pdf in mkii, usepdffontresource stub Oleg Kolosov
2008-06-17 16:34 ` Hans Hagen
2008-06-17 18:55 ` Oleg Kolosov
2008-06-17 19:13 ` Hans Hagen
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