From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/8554 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Idris S Hamid Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Who uses ConTeXt? Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2002 09:58:20 -0600 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <200207060958.20690.ishamid@attbi.com> References: <20020706052913.70182.qmail@web10007.mail.yahoo.com> <642636305.20020706114742@iol.it> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035398948 28507 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 18:49:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:49:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-To: Giuseppe Bilotta , Christopher Cardinale In-Reply-To: <642636305.20020706114742@iol.it> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:8554 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:8554 > Not that I think ConTeXt has any "competitive" intentions over > LaTeX. And it surely misses the AMS power to be of any "real" > competition to LaTeX. Over here in the humanities I think ConTeXt makes _much_ more sense than LaTeX and I hope it does actually compete in that arena. > CC> 2. Better documentation. Mr. Hagen has done an immense amount of work > CC> in documenting ConTeXt, but after printing out the 330 page manual, I'd > CC> like something a little more user friendly. It could benefit from a > CC> more grammatical English translation and a professional editor. > CC> Everyone needs an editor. It would also be nice to be able to buy it as > CC> a printed book from Amazon. I agree that the ConTeXt manual is quite obscure in places. I for one would love to see a "ConTeXt Unbound" or "ConTeXt Companion" for the masses. I might try to contribute to such a project one day ()... Berend is not sure that there is a market for such a text but I say, let's _make_ a market for it. If ConTeXt is (or can be) the best DTP tool around, let's spread the Gospel! > CC> 3. A commercial implementation offering superior convenience and > CC> interface. Rather than a commercial interface I'd like to see a crossplatform interface along the lines of what I rambled about in the course of a ctt discussion: Message-ID: This _is_ the 21st century folks:-> > Hans is working on a ConTeXt-specific editor. It would be nice if > he put it out at least in the beta pages, indeed. I'm eagerly > waiting to put my hands on it :) Ditto! I hope it's cross-platform (since I just switched to Linux)! Best wishes Idris -- Dr. Idris S Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80526