Re: ConTeXt on the Mac (TexShop). Problem of a newbie

[Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny@eglug.org>]

You can ignore everything Keith said and you will be just fine.

Regards,
Khaled

On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 11:32:39AM +0000, Meigen, Thomas wrote:
> Hi Keith,
> 
> thank you for your  open comments. You exactly understood the questions
> that I am asking right now. Would it be a good idea to switch to ConTeXt?
> 
> Yes, I do not have (and I do not want to have) a deeper understanding of 
> proper TeX. Well, I have Knuth's TeXbook in my shelf, but it is simply
> a question of time. Life is too short anyway ;-)
> 
> But... do I really have to have a knowledge of proper TeX and Lua before
> I can use ConTeXt? For me, the charme of ConTeXt had always been that
> those nice documents had been prepared with rather smart code.
> I dont want to write my own modules (in which case I definitely would 
> need to know proper TeX and Lua). I just want to use ConTeXt and
> focus on the content, not on the technical background. 
> 
> Sure, I am using MacTeX and TeXLive now for many years. 
> 
> What attracted me to ConTeXt was the project-product-component 
> structure to use and re-use components. Other aspects are
> 
> - different modes (presentation, handout, manuscript)
> 
> - poster production
> 
> - nice graphics/animation via pstricks or metapost
> 
> - export to other formats (when writing articles many journals in my
> field do not accept .tex-files)
> 
> - export to epub/mobi format. I enjoy reading mobile versions of
> my own texts and of the texts my students give me for review. 
> 
> - import from Scrivener... When writing difficult texts I noticed that
> LaTeX-typesetting is often an interruption of the writing flow. After writing
> some sentences I am curious to see how the text might look like, so
> I typeset the text and sooner or later I am fiddling with some LaTeX 
> details instead of focussing on the writing process. One help had been
> to use Scrivener during the writing process and using the LaTeX 
> typesetting for the final steps only (as a reward... ;-) ).
> 
> How much of this list can be accomplished with LuaTex and ConTeXt...?
> 
> 
> Best wishes
> Thomas
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