Re: Mini-survey: What do you do with ConTeXt?

[Nikolai Weibull <mailing-lists.context-users@rawuncut.elitemail.org>]

Taco Hoekwater wrote:

> What do you do with ConTeXT?

I use ConTeXt for any document that I figure someone will want to print
out on paper some day.  This includes resumes, letters, and articles.  I
even considered typesetting software documentation with ConTeXt, but
haven’t yet decided if PDFs are the right medium for that kind of text.
I also typeset my master’s thesis using ConTeXt and probably spent as
much time hacking ConTeXt as I did on doing “actual work” for the
content.  Not because ConTeXt couldn’t do what I wanted, but because
ConTeXt allowed me to do anything I wanted.  Having a lot of options can
be time-consuming, as you want to try them all before deciding on the
one that works best.  This is both the good and the bad thing about
ConTeXt.  You can tweak and tweak and tweak, whereas with something like
LaTeX you have a few boring designs and you just choose the one that
suits the type of document your writing.  And your document will look
like five million other research papers outh there.  I wanted something
unique and ConTeXt was just the right tool for it.

        nikolai

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