From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/15764 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tobias Hilbricht Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Re: A few questions regarding ConTeXt Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 22:22:31 +0200 Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Message-ID: <1090614150.4165.38.camel@phoebus.venus.bay> References: <06DC60A4186F0D47A52DAC5A5D09A8CB01499989@se-mail2> <40FFDE14.4070204@wxs.nl> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1090613841 14315 80.91.224.253 (23 Jul 2004 20:17:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 20:17:21 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Fri Jul 23 22:17:03 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 1Bo6TX-0007Ya-00 for ; Fri, 23 Jul 2004 22:17:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A8C41277C; Fri, 23 Jul 2004 22:17:03 +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 15558-03; Fri, 23 Jul 2004 22:17:03 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88E601277F; Fri, 23 Jul 2004 22:13:39 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7E621277F for ; Fri, 23 Jul 2004 22:13:37 +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 15443-05-2 for ; Fri, 23 Jul 2004 22:13:37 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from nickel.webpack.hosteurope.de (unknown [217.115.142.116]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37F1A1277C for ; Fri, 23 Jul 2004 22:13:37 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from xdsl-81-173-146-60.netcologne.de ([81.173.146.60]) by nickel.webpack.hosteurope.de with asmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Bo6QC-0008Lw-Rx for ntg-context@ntg.nl; Fri, 23 Jul 2004 22:13:37 +0200 Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <40FFDE14.4070204@wxs.nl> X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 (1.4.5-7) X-HE-MXrcvd: no 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:15764 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:15764 > >However, judging from the documentation on your site, some features that > >I have read about in LaTeX - such as drop caps, complex headers, cross > >references, several series of footnotes etc (i.e. the packages > >"lettrine", "fancyhdr", "varioref" and "ledmac") - don't seem to be > >available in ConTeXt. I use the packages lettrine, fancyhdr and ledmac, and from time to time I have a look at the way ConTeXt does the things I need. Dropped caps (versals) is possible with ConTeXt, finetuneable and not more difficult than with lettrine in LaTeX. Documentation for ConTeXt is hidden in the file supp-fun.tex in the base system. Creating complex running headers is easier in ConTeXt than in LaTeX, because the ConTeXt marking mechanism allows more than just leftmark and rightmark (and the two extramarks provided by the package extramarks), as in LaTeX. Documentation is in the main manual. However, there was a problem with the ConTeXt marking mechanism when using a two column layout, which had to be overcome by an "email bug fix" by Hans Hagen. I have not tried yet to create a complex critical edition with ConTeXt, with more than one footnote apparatus, which is easy with ledmac. Yours sincerely Tobias Hilbricht