Re: migrating to ConTeXt

[Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>]

On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:11:49 +0100
Gour <ggdasa@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 21:09:49 +0100
> "Mojca Miklavec" <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > > > (We'll drop that letter from our keyboards soon :)
> > >
> > > Oh, then I'll stay with friendly lyx/latex...
> > 
> > What does lyx have to do with đ and the (Slovenian) keyboard?
> 
> Ahh, I understood you will start a party to remove support for 'đ' from ConTeXt as well :-)

\catcode`đ=13
\letđ\relax
\starttext
dđ
\stoptext

> > Most problems have been resolved about two years ago. But it's true -
> > đ didn't work for at least half a dozen of different reasons :)
> 
> ok, ok...I'm 50% sold-out to move to ConTeXt ;)

You should use XeTeX or LuaTeX and you're free from any problem because
đ is now a normal letter as any other character and you could use all
letters in label texts without problems.

> > 2002? That must be somewhere aroud the bronze age for ConTeXt :-)
> 
> Now is golden age?
> 
> > Well ... I would say ... you need to start somewhere and once you
> > stumble upon something you don't know how to convert, ask on the list.
> 
> Sure. I'll soon start posting when attempting to mimic some LaTeX behaviour.

You should better use ConTeXt style and try to avoid LaTeX method,
\quote and \quotation and not "` ...

> > That's a taboo, that's why your original question has been removed :)
> 
> Heh, that's why I felt some bad-smell...well, maybe I'm more persistent this time
> and/or someone is bold enough to speak about taboos :-)

The ConTeXt manual, very difficult topic. All of us want it, nobody is
able or motivated enough to write, we have a few experts for every
topic (mathematics, fonts etc.) but none who who has knowledge about
the whole system and too mayn features are hidden and only documented
in the source.

Wolfgang
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