From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/20408 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Waller Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Context, Latex, or an XML for acaddemic writing? Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 19:35:51 +0100 Message-ID: <23d0689705051711357c01e36c@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: David Waller , mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1116355210 3409 80.91.229.2 (17 May 2005 18:40:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 18:40:10 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Tue May 17 20:40:01 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DY6yb-0001Pc-9h for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 May 2005 20:39:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A740E127FA; Tue, 17 May 2005 20:40:09 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 16838-03; Tue, 17 May 2005 20:40:09 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77BEF127FB; Tue, 17 May 2005 20:35:55 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0E8F127FB for ; Tue, 17 May 2005 20:35:53 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 16690-05 for ; Tue, 17 May 2005 20:35:53 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.196]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4645127FA for ; Tue, 17 May 2005 20:35:52 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 36so2732214wra for ; Tue, 17 May 2005 11:35:51 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=tFz0l8+F5oZnu5Sh3NdeApG6g+4zUhKr/ITgmsTq1ZY4Aan1fKZkwBlYLp1WTsKRi6DARF1nbiTQjIEW5t7VgQUFs9uSb6yKt0HLMUvTIC3GbMseYXEtsyhf2TrbyC05qyy2EKdfUKr7JqxFEO1VWiXpwoSDBTsy0n6T4eOouMY= Original-Received: by 10.54.56.40 with SMTP id e40mr4499818wra; Tue, 17 May 2005 11:35:51 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.54.39.43 with HTTP; Tue, 17 May 2005 11:35:51 -0700 (PDT) Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Content-Disposition: inline X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on smtp.ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:20408 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:20408 Just to add a slightly different flavour, I have been using PdfLatex for several years to produce technical manuals for various pieces of software, which have included a lot of graphics and tables. I have recently changed to ConText mainly because it is far easier to set up how you want the text to be displayed and you don't need to include lots of additional packages which often have side effects with each other and need to be included in the correct order. I have also found it very easy to modify Latex input to Context input and particularly like the separation possible with graphics (whereby you can have a separate file that points to the graphics file and not have to embed the file name in the middle of the document) It would be nice if this list could produce some "good" layouts for others to use to provide us all with some defaults and a starting point rather than everyone reinventing the wheel. Dave Waller