Hi Thomas! ········· > Dear list, > > today, I have an announcement to make and a call for contributions. We > have obtained a medium-sized grant at my university to further > development of ConTeXt. Specifically, our project wants to facilitate > typesetting critical editions after the TEI xml standard and > bibliographical data. Luigi will be employed as a full-time developer > for the next 6 months (he signed his contract today); Hans will > coordinate the work flow. Great news! > So this is good news. Now for the call for contributions: we invite you > to send in examples in those two areas (critical editions, i.e. > linenotes cum suis, and bibliographical data, aka bib-module) which show > where ConTeXt could be developed. What I’d consider the most pressing issue, pertaining both to Context and to TeX as a whole, would be text streams a.k.a. parallel typesetting. It was discussed on the list a couple times already and at one point someone collected examples [1]. Also, I sketched the current state of parallel texts elsewhere [2]. > so please send examples to the list > that show limitations or bugs, ask for new features, etc. if you want > new features in the bibliography department, please do not send vague > requests I have a working albeit hackish (manual page-breaking ftw) implementation for the plain format which I wasn’t able to port to Context due to the much more complex page model of the latter. Example output: https://phi-gamma.net/pdf/example-3.pdf To minimize the vagueness ;-) I could share the sources but I doubt it’s of much value in its present state. Besides, it does not work with current Luatex due to changed callback signatures. > ("it would be nice if we could have hungarian reference > systems") but small examples which show a precise feature and a possible > syntax for it. > > of course, i can't promise that we will be able to act on all your > submissions, but i'm optimistic that this project will make our favorite > software better! Looking forward to status reports! Will the improvements be directly merged into Context or do you prefer releasing it as a self-contained module? Best regards, Philipp [1] http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2010/051693.html [2] http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/128574