From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/8638 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Henning Hraban Ramm Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Who uses ConTeXt Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 08:27:26 +0200 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <200207102215.45251.angerweit@gmx.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035399028 29228 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 18:50:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:50:28 +0000 (UTC) Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:8638 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:8638 Ahoi! Someone asked, who uses ConTeXt: I'm a typesetter and (something like a) printing engineer, working as "system coach" (a bit admin, a bit script programmer, a bit teacher, mostly troubleshooter...) for the prepress department of a regional newspaper. At work I use ConTeXt for presentations, workflow charts and sometimes for documentations. (Our IT departments wants me to use Word and PP, but they'd like to keep me...) In my spare(?) time I work on publications for my unitarian religious fellowship, e.g. our magazine (until now with QuarkXPress, perhaps soon with ConTeXt, but it's hard), sometimes a book (at the moment). As I prepared my first unitarian book I decided to try TeX, as I heard about from some friends. Soon I found that LaTeX didn't fit my needs (no grid setting), and someone on TeX-D-L (german TeX mailing list) said, he heard about ConTeXt, what should be able to do it. And here I am. :-) To learn ConTeXt a bit better (and because I boasted to much on TeX-D-L) I started to write a german documentation/tutorial -- see link below. Further I'm working since years on a fantasy book by a friend -- I have to type it myself, he writes manually, that's why it's not really going on... ;-/ BTW, concerning languages: I'd suggest to re-implement everything in PostScript, no, better: AppleScript! >;->> No, really, it's most important to use a language that is easy to get and install on a wide variety of OSes. And that seems to be Perl. (At work I must use WinNT, at home I run Linux and MacOS 9 on a G4 -- but I didn't manage to get texexec running with MacPerl.) Grüßlis vom Hraban! -- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ (should be updated and refurbished...) ---