From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/3950 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: someone working at a module for koma compatibility? Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 09:05:33 +0100 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.20010201090533.01a539d0@server-1> References: <3.0.6.32.20010131144152.01c0c390@server-1> <3.0.6.32.20010131144152.01c0c390@server-1> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035394651 21527 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 17:37:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 17:37:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ConTeXt Original-To: "Uwe Koloska" In-Reply-To: <01020100214102.30780@bilbo> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:3950 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:3950 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@wxs.nl 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------