From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/14698 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Adam Lindsay" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Fwd: MacOSX-TeX Digest #923 - 02/08/04 Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 14:28:06 +0000 Sender: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Message-ID: <20040209142806.14543@news.comp.lancs.ac.uk> Reply-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1076336963 11446 80.91.224.253 (9 Feb 2004 14:29:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 14:29:23 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Mon Feb 09 15:29:11 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from ref.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.13] helo=ref.ntg.nl) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AqCPO-0008IQ-00 for ; Mon, 09 Feb 2004 15:29:10 +0100 Original-Received: from ref.ntg.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A53410B67; Mon, 9 Feb 2004 15:27:37 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from mail.comp.lancs.ac.uk (mail.comp.lancs.ac.uk [148.88.3.45]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A819D10B26 for ; Mon, 9 Feb 2004 15:26:37 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from [148.88.168.192] (gfb008000005.lancs.ac.uk [148.88.168.192]) by mail.comp.lancs.ac.uk (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i19ES4Ld029375 for ; Mon, 9 Feb 2004 14:28:05 GMT Original-To: "Ntg Context" X-Mailer: CTM PowerMail 4.2.1 us Carbon Errors-To: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:14698 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:14698 Hi folks. The below email showed up recently on the MacOSX/TeX list, and I thought it might be worthy of some ConTeXt-centric discussion. ---------------- Begin Forwarded Message ---------------- Subject: MacOSX-TeX Digest #923 - 02/08/04 Date Sent: Sunday, 8 February 2004 20:00 From: TeX on Mac OS X Mailing List To: TeX on Mac OS X Mailing List Subject: Can Tex do That? From: "Roland Schoettle" Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2004 15:41:51 -0800 Greetings, I hope someone on this list can help me. In particular I have been told I should ask William Adams for assistance. In the event he is not active on this list, I would be grateful if this message were relayed to him. I am a disappointed FrameMaker user. Initially we used Frame on PCs with good result. Our business is now moving away from the Windows platform. Before committing to our last Frame upgrade, Adobe assured us Frame would be available for OSX. (At one point they went so far as to promise Linux support and even released a Linux beta). It is now apparent Adobe will not support OS X (or Linux) and has in fact recommended "upgrading" to InDesign. We have looked at InDesign and believe it to be significantly inferior for our requirements. However good, InDesign cannot do many FrameMaker functions such as footnotes, autoflow of text and paragraphs, math symbols, cross-referencing, etc. Further, Adobe is blatantly unsympathetic. I have used Tex in the very distant past and recall it had tremendous capability but never tried using it for the many complex graphics applications which now are prerequisites for business. I would like to try Tex again, but thought it best to ask if Tex can now be used to create reasonably complicated color product brochures. The goal would be to produce brochures, newsletters, business proposals, and also "publish" data from databases that look as if from a high-end layout package such as Quark Express or something similar. Can Tex be easily used for these type of functions? Your help would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks Roland Schoettle ----------------- End Forwarded Message ----------------- -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Adam T. Lindsay atl@comp.lancs.ac.uk Computing Dept, Lancaster University +44(0)1524/594.537 Lancaster, LA1 4YR, UK Fax:+44(0)1524/593.608 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-