Re: beginner's questions

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 05:51 PM 11/9/00 +0100, Wouter Verheijen wrote:
>Hi,

>- Although I am Dutch, I have no problem at all with using the English
>  words (e.g. \starttext instead of \starttekst).  I think this way, I
>  can avoid language conflicts.  Do the Dutch people agree or is it
>  normal to use the dutch words.  Most of my texts are in Dutch, so

I mostly use dutch for dutch projects and english for english documents.
Especially when you start defining your own structuring it makes more sense
to talk about vragen en antwoorden dan questions and answers etc. 

>  the spelling and hypenating language should remain Dutch.

\mainlanguage[nl]

>  I did texexec --make en, but my standard language interface is still
>  nl. It only works with texexec --int=en. How do I specify the
>  default?

you can add a first line to your file

% interface=en 

When you use english commands, texexec will recognize the doc as having an
enmglish interface, unless the doc is so small that there is nothing to
determine. You can also specify the default interface in texexec.ini

>- The DVI files produced with context show up completely blank in
>  KDVI. They do work in Xdvi, and my Latex files always worked in Kdvi
>  as well. Who's to blame?

You probably don't have any output or maybe you generated pdf output? 

>- Most of the work I plan to make with context are small (<20pages)
>  reports. Mostly text with some tables and pictures, and a few
>  graphs. Is context the program to handle this, or should I choose
>  latex? After a quick look at the docs, it seems context is easier to
>  do most things. Is this correct?

that's for others to answer -) 

Hans

PS. Next month the NTG will organize a context course. 
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