From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/55262 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter =?utf-8?Q?M=C3=BCnster?= Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Using ConTeXt for a thesis? Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2009 11:14:19 +0100 Message-ID: <20091220101419.GA4100@gaston.couberia.bzh> References: <4B2CDB53.8040305@gmail.com> <22af238a0912190721k6791fff7v86e8a912477a5dc4@mail.gmail.com> <4B2D412B.1010102@gmail.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1261304098 17043 80.91.229.12 (20 Dec 2009 10:14:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2009 10:14:58 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sun Dec 20 11:14:51 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NMIoM-0000gP-Ey for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Dec 2009 11:14:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66048C9C97; Sun, 20 Dec 2009 11:14:45 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id heXT3kx6gxvS; Sun, 20 Dec 2009 11:14:44 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44BF4C9C43; Sun, 20 Dec 2009 11:14:33 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A2F0C9C43 for ; Sun, 20 Dec 2009 11:14:30 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id JZQDNwN8+Cp0 for ; Sun, 20 Dec 2009 11:14:27 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from smtp21.orange.fr (smtp21.orange.fr [80.12.242.46]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD438C9BE2 for ; Sun, 20 Dec 2009 11:14:27 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from me-wanadoo.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mwinf2129.orange.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 3F87A1C0062C for ; Sun, 20 Dec 2009 11:14:27 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from me-wanadoo.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mwinf2129.orange.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 3136B1C0063E for ; Sun, 20 Dec 2009 11:14:27 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from gaston.couberia.bzh (ARennes-551-1-107-41.w92-129.abo.wanadoo.fr [92.129.2.41]) by mwinf2129.orange.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 26D8D1C0062C for ; Sun, 20 Dec 2009 11:14:25 +0100 (CET) X-ME-UUID: 20091220101425159.26D8D1C0062C@mwinf2129.orange.fr Original-Received: by gaston.couberia.bzh (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 6582A30830; Sun, 20 Dec 2009 11:14:19 +0100 (CET) Mail-Followup-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:55262 Archived-At: 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 -- Contact information: http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/ ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________