From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/20924 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: andrea valle Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: I need some advices/guidelines before start writing my PhD thesis Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 09:11:03 +0200 Message-ID: <2d137a707fd8211735b8555e81a9929b@di.unito.it> References: <000c01c57321$d95ad1d0$bb1c8453@CasaAlex> <0A57B814-41A1-4FDD-8708-DE3B7E99202D@fiee.net> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1119251162 24208 80.91.229.2 (20 Jun 2005 07:06:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 07:06:02 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Mon Jun 20 09:05:59 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 1DkGLX-0003tA-FN for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Jun 2005 09:05:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69BE01279B; Mon, 20 Jun 2005 09:11:19 +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 17476-06; Mon, 20 Jun 2005 09:11:15 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9FF912791; Mon, 20 Jun 2005 09:11:15 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 655DC12791 for ; Mon, 20 Jun 2005 09:11:14 +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 17558-03-2 for ; Mon, 20 Jun 2005 09:11:13 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from swip.net (mailfe06.tele2.it [212.247.154.173]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9A0312788 for ; Mon, 20 Jun 2005 09:11:10 +0200 (CEST) X-T2-Posting-ID: K+vsftSFIw076cEyPj85jnAdTvyyxk/k4XBbHoCgE7s= Original-Received: from [83.176.77.14] ([83.176.77.14] verified) by mailfe06.swip.net (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.3.2) with ESMTP id 390259411 for ntg-context@ntg.nl; Mon, 20 Jun 2005 09:11:07 +0200 In-Reply-To: <0A57B814-41A1-4FDD-8708-DE3B7E99202D@fiee.net> Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619.2) 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:20924 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:20924 > > It *is* possible if you know how and are very careful (split the text=20= > in > chapters, safe and backup often etc.), but OpenOffice.org is better=20 > for that - > besides any TeX, of course. ;-) > I like the idea of OO, but I have to say I have always found strange=20= behaviour in OO. I switched to latex (and then very probably to=20 context) because on Macosx in the version I tried of OO I wrote=20 italics, I printed italics, but I didn't see on the screen italics. So,=20= if I have to use a non-wysysyg, oh well, I use TeX. As a word processor=20= AbiWord is interesting. >> Another important thing: *only* MS-Word can read your Word-document,=20= >> and of >> course only the right version (M$ won't guarantee, that Word-2005=20 >> prints >> out your document the same way as Word-2000). > > That's not true since about Word 98; and there are a lot of other word > processors that can import MSW-Docs (e.g. OOo again). > > I do not agree. Microsoft always changes in some unpredictable and=20 bad-documented way their file format. I've *always* found enormous=20 difficulties in opening with other word processors M$ files, even when=20= they should be rtf. It is simply not possible, if you want to retain=20 the exact document information. So, I switched to latex... Question: One of the main feature I appreciated in latex was a very simple but=20 effective latex2rtf converter. It is very useful if you have simple=20 document to be shared with other non-tex people, especially during=20 preliminary work on a project. You write the context (with structure:=20 section, subsection, etc,), share it, modify it, and finally control=20 the typographic stuff in details. Is anything similar for context? Best -a- Andrea Valle Laboratorio multimediale "G. Quazza" Facolt=E0 di Scienze della Formazione Universit=E0 degli Studi di Torino andrea.valle@unito.it=