From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/56021 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan BRASLAU Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: What do you miss in ConTeXt? Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2010 14:41:44 +0100 Organization: CEA DSM-IRAMIS-SPEC Message-ID: <201002081441.44788.alan.braslau@cea.fr> References: <4B6FF4C6.4000401@googlemail.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 1265636521 31517 80.91.229.12 (8 Feb 2010 13:42:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2010 13:42:01 +0000 (UTC) To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Mon Feb 08 14:41:57 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NeTsB-0004ni-Kg for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:41:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4705EC9C43; Mon, 8 Feb 2010 14:43:28 +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 vTTx7r8SeoV9; Mon, 8 Feb 2010 14:43:24 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FEABC9C44; Mon, 8 Feb 2010 14:43:24 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70933C9C44 for ; Mon, 8 Feb 2010 14:43:23 +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 9A4PZS-46dA5 for ; Mon, 8 Feb 2010 14:43:21 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from oxalide-out.extra.cea.fr (oxalide-out.extra.cea.fr [132.168.224.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31DFBC9C43 for ; Mon, 8 Feb 2010 14:43:21 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from epeire2.extra.cea.fr (epeire2.extra.cea.fr [132.167.198.32]) by oxalide.extra.cea.fr (8.14.2/8.14.2/CEAnet-Internet-out-2.0) with ESMTP id o18Dfjkl030700 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Mon, 8 Feb 2010 14:41:46 +0100 Original-Received: from orpin1.extra.cea.fr (orpin1.extra.cea.fr [132.167.198.4]) by epeire2.extra.cea.fr (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id o18Dfj9e017814; Mon, 8 Feb 2010 14:41:45 +0100 (envelope-from alan.braslau@cea.fr) Original-Received: from dogger.localnet (dogger.saclay.cea.fr [132.166.21.4]) by orpin1.extra.cea.fr (8.13.8/8.13.8/CEAnet-Extranet-out-1.1) with ESMTP id o18DfjWC031952; Mon, 8 Feb 2010 14:41:45 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.4 (Linux/2.6.32; KDE/4.3.4; i686; ; ) In-Reply-To: <4B6FF4C6.4000401@googlemail.com> 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:56021 Archived-At: On Monday 08 February 2010 12:25:58 Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > Hi all, > > ConTeXt has many features but sometimes there is something missing, what > feature or package do you miss which is already available in another TeX > system or unavailable in any TeX system? > > Wolfgang Hello, I have been using the (old) chart module to draw not only flow charts but also to draw functional diagrams for gas handling and hydrolics systems. This module could be significantly developped, in particular though abstraction of node placement, color, etc. One could go further, drawing tree diagrams. Here, I am thinking about some of the possibilities of pgf/TiKz. Something probably already exists in Metapost, but it would be nice to have such tools native in ConTeXt. pgf/TiKz is a nice package, and I like its support for ConTeXt. However, a simpler, cleaner interface and syntax can be achieved natively in ConTeXt and Metapost... Going a bit further, I suppose that the same logic could be applied to drawing schematic diagrams for electronics. And why not abstract this further? One could then flexibly logically place (and connect) containers of any sort. I use collectors and columnsetspan to put together posters (A0). This could be made easier. 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