From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/63631 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Isambert Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.texhax,gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Choosing TeX um ... stuff Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 23:06:04 +0100 Message-ID: <1290031564.4ce451cc54c84@imp.free.fr> References: <4CE44E78.3040601@Rhul.Ac.Uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1290031655 680 80.91.229.12 (17 Nov 2010 22:07:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 22:07:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: texhax@tug.org, mailing list for ConTeXt users , Peter Davis To: "Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)" Original-X-From: texhax-bounces@tug.org Wed Nov 17 23:07:29 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctt-texhax@gmane.org Original-Received: from tug.org ([130.225.2.178]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PIqA5-0007D0-JU for gctt-texhax@gmane.org; Wed, 17 Nov 2010 23:07:29 +0100 Original-Received: from tug.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tug.org (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id oAHM6JsD007864; Wed, 17 Nov 2010 23:06:24 +0100 X-Envelope-From: zappathustra@free.fr X-Envelope-To: Original-Received: from smtp.nfit.au.dk (nfitmail.nfit.au.dk [130.225.31.129]) by tug.org (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id oAHM6GFE007858 for ; Wed, 17 Nov 2010 23:06:19 +0100 Original-Received: from smtp.nfit.au.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.nfit.au.dk (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5171251F3E for ; Wed, 17 Nov 2010 23:06:15 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from smtp2-g21.free.fr (smtp2-g21.free.fr [212.27.42.2]) by smtp.nfit.au.dk (Postfix) with ESMTP id E967A2223C4 for ; Wed, 17 Nov 2010 23:06:14 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from UNKNOWN (unknown [172.20.243.138]) by smtp2-g21.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BF1A4B007C; Wed, 17 Nov 2010 23:06:05 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: by UNKNOWN (Postfix, from userid 0) id 6FF2F7091FF36; Wed, 17 Nov 2010 23:06:04 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ([82.232.47.35]) by imp.free.fr (IMP) with HTTP for ; Wed, 17 Nov 2010 23:06:04 +0100 In-Reply-To: <4CE44E78.3040601@Rhul.Ac.Uk> User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) 3.2.8 X-Originating-IP: 82.232.47.35 X-NFIT-ADSL: 0 X-NFIT-RelayAddr: 212.27.42.2 X-NFIT-MX: True X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.71 on 10.19.8.11 X-Sim: 7c224130127c692e4c0628b9d12a9b3d84e70985f8d08fec073de99c72f2e348 1347 X-NFIT-Solido-Score: 0. X-NilSimsa-Score: 67/307 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.71 on 10.19.8.11 X-BeenThere: texhax@tug.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: General TeX discussion and questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: texhax-bounces@tug.org Original-Sender: texhax-bounces@tug.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.texhax:14452 gmane.comp.tex.context:63631 Archived-At: Selon "Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)" : > > > Peter Davis wrote: > > 2. True or False: plain TeX and LaTeX(2e) are warhorses ... been > > around for decades, quirks well known, lots of documentation, etc. > > Yes, except that while Plain TeX has more-or-less remained > static (modulo essential bug fixes by Don), LaTeX2e has > continued to evolve. I have heard rumours that this particular > evolutionary branch may have come to an end, but I have > no definite knowledge of this. And plain TeX doesn't have a lot of documentation. Anyway there isn't much to document. Basically using plain TeX means you need a very good knowledge of the engine, and you'll write tons of macros (in a way there are no plain TeX users, only users of personal formats based on plain). > > 3. True or False: ConTeXt is newer, with a lot of built-in features, > > but still changing quite a bit from build to build. > > Context is a L O T newer : it has many devotees, but is still > something of an outside to mainstream TeX usage. Philip, plain TeX isn't exactly mainstream anymore, and ConTeXt probably beats it on this point. And ConTeXt is already more than 15 years old, so it's not so new, although it does keep moving. Paul