Re: A series of articles about text-editors for the MAPS

From: Alan BRASLAU <alan.braslau@cea.fr>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: A series of articles about text-editors for the MAPS
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2012 23:10:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120808231010.127103dd@iram-hb-003386.extra.cea.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120807202248.3b8d5571@sda3.wexfordpress.net>

On Tue, 7 Aug 2012 20:22:48 -0400
john Culleton <John@wexfordpress.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 7 Aug 2012 11:34:28 +0200 Willi Egger <context@boede.nl>
> wrote:
> 
> > Dear TeX users and TeX friends,
> > 
> > At one of the last NTG-meetings we discussed possibilities to
> > write a series of articles presenting the different text
> > editors used in modern TeX-environments. 
> > 
> > Such an article could have ingredients like availability,
> > general use, highlights, issues related to TeX coding and
> > whether it is suitable for Plain-tex, Latex, Context,
> > configurability etc.
> > 
> > The idea is to produce a MAPS-issue in color, so that also
> > screenshots can be included. 
> > 
> > We have already a couple of volunteers to write on certain
> > editors, however it is for sure not a bad idea to include even
> > two articles on the same editor. What we definitely are looking
> > for is someone who would be prepared to write an article over
> > WinEdt.
> > 
> > I am looking forward hearing from you, kind regards
> > 
> > Willi Egger Secretary NTG ntg-secretary@ntg.nl
> 
> I use Gvim for all editing, including all forms of TeX, columns
> submitted to my newspaper editors, programs (Tcl etc.) and emails.
> The virtue is I do not have to learn and relearn a new editor for
> each. And my custmizations such as F2 to justify each paragraph
> ragged right, are common for all. I even assign F keys for
> running pdftex or context on a file named book.tex (every book I
> work on is in a separate directory so all of them are called
> book.tex.) I have an  F key for "acroread book.pdf"
> 
> Just FYI. I doubt if I am the only one. 

cat > book.tex ; context book ; zathura book.pdf
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