Re: Using ConTeXt for a thesis?

["Peter Münster" <pmlists@free.fr>]

On Sat, Dec 19 2009, Aditya Mahajan wrote:

> In my experience, the trouble is not creating a style that meets your 
> university's requirement: that is easy both in LaTeX (once you know the 
> right packages) or ConTeXt. The difficulty is understanding your 
> universities requirement which, in most cases, is ambiguous and incomplete.

Hello,

The other trouble can be, that the requirements are simply ugly and don't
even respect basic typographic rules (line lengths of more than 80
characters for example).

I've typeset three PhD thesis and one master thesis, and I've never
bothered with the "requirements" of the universities.
The result was, that some members of the juries paid compliments on the look
of the dissertations ("like a book").

I'm not an expert in typography, but sometimes the people inventing those
rules at universities are even less expert... :(

The one, that I like best (balanced columns):
http://pmrb.free.fr/tmp/main.pdf
(I'm sorry, I've typeset it before my LaTeX->ConTeXt conversion... ;)

Cheers, Peter

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