From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/3274 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: beginner's questions Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 08:38:20 +0100 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.20001113083820.01c9cba0@pop.wxs.nl> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035394016 15594 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 17:26:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 17:26:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-To: siepo@cybercomm.nl In-Reply-To: <20001111173713.26A132317E@client44-3.kabela.oprit.rug.nl> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:3274 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:3274 At 06:34 PM 11/11/00 +0100, siepo@client44-3.kabelA.oprit.rug.nl wrote: >the internal space-eating dummy parameters. The overhead of the interface is not that large, since mapping key/values on \cs's is rather efficient [actually this is how it started in order to fit context in those smaller tex's] >In practice, I need to write just as much plain TeX with Context as with >LaTeX, and I need to ask a lot more questions in order to get the job >done. And in Context I encounter just as many mysterious goings-on as in >LaTeX. That's true as soon as you want control over every aspect of the layout. I fear that there is no way out of this, apart from providing as many hooks as needed. >I use Context when I have to, but in general I much prefer LaTeX. > >Two things in favour of Context: other than LaTeX, it is capable of >producing a tight column layout. Also, Hans is very responsive and Then I hope that you will not hate the alternative multi column mechanism I'm working on now -) Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------