Re: someone working at a module for koma compatibility?

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 12:21 AM 2/1/01 +0100, Uwe Koloska wrote:
>You wrote on Mittwoch, 31. Januar 2001 14:41:
>>At 06:03 PM 1/30/01 +0100, Uwe Koloska wrote:
>>
>>What are koma-scripts ?
>>
>
>Koma-script is a LaTeX class family better suited for european eyes and 
>paper formats.  It's outstanding feature is the calculation of the typing 
>area with a algorithm suggested by Jan Tschichold.  But there are other 
>nice features that makes this classes superior to their LaTeX equivalents 
>that they are coming from.
>
>As far as I understand ConTeXt (and their still is a long way to go) in 
>contrast to LaTeX:  It is a far better plain-TeX with many modern features 
>but lacks the ready to go document classes that was the main purpose for 
>LaTeX.  So in ConTeXt you are able to do a lot more things far more easyly 
>than with LaTeX but you have to do it yourself.  With LaTeX you can write 
>an article without thinking about layout -- and it looks good (but if you 
>want to tweak it a little bit ...)
>
>So I thought about converting some of the LaTeX classes to context with 
>respect to the layout.  Because every now and then I suggested ConTeXt to 
>people searching for a better alternative to word (not that difficult ;-))

I will provide some example styles in the process of some publishing on
demand experiments. For the rest: keep in mind that the average style is
simple: 

\setuplayout[topspace=...,backspace=...,width=...,height=...] 
\setuphead[chapter][....

Then some 

\starttext 

\startstandardmakeup .. title page stuff ... \stopstandardmakeup

the main text

\stoptext

Hans
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